Oct 30, 2019 | Boston Globe, Council in the News
By Jon Chesto, Talking Points, The Boston Globe, October 30, 2019 The tough quest for consensus: House Speaker Bob DeLeo made a bold request to the state’s business community in March: Come up with some transportation policies that everyone can unite behind. Good luck...
Oct 30, 2019 | Boston Globe, Council in the News
By Jon Chesto, Globe Staff, October 30, 2019 Nearly every major business organization in Massachusetts has united behind a call for more government spending to expand public transit and improve the roads, with the hope that a new infusion of cash can help solve the...
Oct 30, 2019 | CommonWealth Beacon, Council in the News
By Bruce Mohl, CommonWealth, October 30, 2019 Support for increases broad, but not unanimous. ON THE EVE of a long-anticipated legislative debate on transportation, most members of a coalition of Massachusetts businesses see a need for some form of new revenue, but...
Aug 27, 2019 | Council in the News, State House News Service
By Colin A. Young, State House News Service, August 26, 2019 Business organizations that have resisted new or higher taxes to funnel more money into public transportation are hitting back at the advocacy group Raise Up Massachusetts and its call for an...
Aug 27, 2019 | Boston Globe, Council in the News
By Jon Chesto, The Boston Globe, August 26, 2019 After sitting across the negotiating table from each other, Raise Up Massachusetts and Associated Industries of Massachusetts gradually developed what seemed like a friendly working relationship. Most notably, the...
