Matt Stout
@MattPStout
State House reporter for the @BostonGlobe, covering politics and government. Formerly @bostonherald. Reach me at [email protected]
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Relatedly, totals just came in for Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭's Vatican trip.
Total cost came in at $21,449.18 for Wu + staff
The House & Senate committees on climate change could hardly have more urgent work to tackle. But neither has had a single bill referred to it this session.
The panels come with leadership stipends of tens of thousands of $.🤯 Emma Platoff Laura Crimaldi bostonglobe.com/2024/05/31/met…
1 of every 5 of the Mass. Legislature’s committees have not held a single hearing or considered one bill this session, Emma Platoff + Laura Crimaldi found. Taxpayers are paying their leaders — who say they serve in an advisory capacity — at least $380,000 bostonglobe.com/2024/05/31/met…
The Massachusetts House is poised to pass a bill that would add 200-plus liquor licenses in Boston in a bid to fix inequities in how alcohol is sold in the city. bostonglobe.com/2024/05/30/bus… via Shirley Leung and Diti Kohli
NYC Transit President Rich Davey has been picked to be the next CEO of Massport. He's a familiar face to many people in Boston. bostonglobe.com/2024/05/29/bus… via The Boston Globe
I don't know how that's going to work, but I'll let you know if and when I learn. In the interim, I'd like to say a huge, heartfelt thank you to everyone who made time to watch us--ie me, Katie Lannan, & Saraya (suh-RAY-uh) Wintersmith--when you could've been doing something else instead 2/x
On a recent night, it was déjà vu at Logan Airport's Terminal E, as adults and children sprawled out to grab some shut-eye while travelers whisked by with their luggage, en route to Dublin or Doha, Istanbul or Zurich. More from Danny McDonald: bostonglobe.com/2024/05/24/met…
Take two: Months after a state panel failed to agree on a substitute for Massachusetts’s controversial state seal, the state Senate voted to create another commission (with another $100K in funding) to propose a new seal, flag, and motto bostonglobe.com/2024/05/24/met… via The Boston Globe
Abroad, Governor Healey and Mayor Wu talk climate change in harmony. At home, real change is messier. Samantha J. Gross
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Should a state panel approve three pardon requests she made Thursday, Maura Healey will have granted more pardons in roughly 17 months as governor than either Charlie Baker or Deval Patrick did across each of their eight years in office bostonglobe.com/2024/05/23/met… via The Boston Globe
As inspector general, Glenn Cunha investigated retirees who broke the rules on returning to work. Then he did it himself, paying back $17K after he said he mistakenly exceeded the cap on what he could earn while collecting his $101K pension. bostonglobe.com/2024/05/23/met… The Boston Globe
Is Josh Kraft contemplating challenging Mayor Michelle Wu in 2025? Many Boston political insiders seem to think so. My latest for The Boston Globe: bostonglobe.com/2024/05/22/met…
Massachusetts state officials said Monday that the voter-approved surtax on high earners has generated more than $1.8 billion in revenue this fiscal year — with still three months left to go — blowing past state projections bostonglobe.com/2024/05/20/met… via The Boston Globe