Nov 22, 2013 | Boston Globe, Council in the News
NOTE: Indeed, Chris Anderson, president of the Massachusetts High Technology Council, says that “a majority of our members would support raising the minimum wage to $10 an hour if the same legislation included UI reforms.” By Scot Lehigh RAISING THE state minimum wage...
Aug 18, 2013 | Boston Globe, Council in the News
By Jeff Jacoby GLOBE COLUMNIST DAYS AFTER Massachusetts residents began feeling the sting of new tax increases, Florida’s Republican governor, Rick Scott, cheerfully reminded them that they have other options. On Aug. 6, Scott sent letters to 100 Massachusetts...
Aug 15, 2013 | Boston Globe, Council in the News
By Michael B. Farrell Democratic state Senator Karen Spilka filed a bill to repeal the recently enacted software services tax that has triggered an uproar within the Massachusetts technology community. Her bill appears to be the first reaction by a state official to...
Aug 13, 2013 | Boston Globe, Council in the News
By Tom Keane BOSTON GLOBE COLUMNIST If those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, then a number of legislators should be looking over their shoulders, wondering whether their time in office is near an end. That’s what happened in 1990, when the...
Aug 7, 2013 | Boston Globe, Council in the News
By Michael B. Farrell BOSTON GLOBE Business leaders fight technology tax in Mass. Seek ballot item to end state’s levy; say computer sector mistreated A coalition of business leaders from some of Massachusetts’ biggest companies, including Staples Inc., BJ’s Wholesale...
Aug 4, 2013 | Boston Globe, Council in the News
By Scott Kirsner BOSTON GLOBE Back in March, I had a chance to interview Governor Deval Patrick on stage at a Boston hotel, in front of several hundred tech workers. The Massachusetts innovation economy, he boasted, was “one of the reasons why we are growing jobs...
