Oct 26, 2015 | Boston Globe, Council in the News
By Jack Newsham “We developed MATTERS earlier this year as a critical — but previously missing — tool to inform the efforts of the Council and like-minded organizations and individuals,” said MHTC president Chris Anderson in a statement. “Governor Baker and his...
Oct 12, 2015 | Boston Globe, Council in the News
By Megan Woolhouse “But Christopher Anderson, president of the Massachusetts High Technology Council, a trade group in Waltham, said the prospect of losing the corporate headquarters of EMC, the state’s fourth-largest publicly traded company, is under no...
Oct 9, 2015 | Boston Globe, Council in the News
By Jeremy C. Fox “Rather than having a static cap that ignores the demand for the product,” Anderson said, “the modernization of the state charter school statute would now include . . . what I would term a ‘growth cap,’ which provides for sustained increases in the...
Aug 5, 2015 | Boston Globe, Council in the News
By Jeremy C. Fox Charter school proponents filed a petition Wednesday for a ballot measure that would authorize the creation or expansion of up to a dozen charter schools statewide each year. The measure would direct state education officials to give priority to...
Jul 31, 2015 | Boston Globe, Council in the News
By Michael Levenson and Mark Arsenault Some of the winners and losers after the crash of the city’s Olympic bid are clear. Governor Charlie Baker has been widely praised for refusing to endorse or oppose the effort until he had a better handle on the financial risks....
Jun 23, 2015 | Boston Globe, Council in the News
By Callum Borchers Dan Shore and the executive team at Cambridge startup Onshape Inc. used to require new hires to sign noncompete agreements. But the makers of three-dimensional design software dropped the restriction last month, according to Shore, after realizing...