Carla Howell, erstwhile gubernatorial candidate and proud Libertarian, is leading the charge to abolish Massachusetts’ income tax. She was recently interviewed for an article in Banker & Tradesman. Q: Gov. Deval Patrick has said your idea to abolish the...
The feature film “Bride Wars” is now filming in and around Boston. This is the second film to be made in Massachusetts by Academy-Award nominated actress Kate Hudson since the new tax credits / revenue giveaway program was passed by The Commonwealth, a...
Two from the Boston Business Journal. First, the under-development Russia Wharf has signed up a big tenant. Wellington Management Co. LLP has inked a deal to occupy 450,000 square feet of space at Russia Wharf, capping one of Boston’s largest lease deals in...
Apparently, it’s going to cost $250 million in state dollars* to reconstruct the Longfellow Bridge, which goes from Cambridge to Boston. The bridge carries cars as well as the Red Line. And, there are sidewalks on either side. This is the “salt and...
As I’ve pointed out before, the Commonwealth’s movie tax credits program (ie., giveaways) is the biggest ripoff in state spending that we have seen in a long time. Bruce Mohl, he of Commonwealth magazine, seems to agree. In an op-ed piece that ran in the...
A week or so ago, I read a comment in some blog about how $1,000,000+ sales had dropped off in some of the tonier (hate that word) towns across the Commonwealth. Or, more accurately, the comment was that there was a glut of $1,000,000+ single-family homes on the...