As First Year Of Health Insurance Mandate Nears, Prices Could Shock...
Thousands of Connecticut residents will have a shock this summer when they see the prices for 2014 medical coverage that they’re counting on buying through the newly formed state health insurance...
View ArticleSunshine Week: Cost of covering teacher absences in Nashua just over $1...
The Nashua School District spent $1.03 million paying substitute teachers in the 2012-12 school year, about 1 percent of its total fiscal 2013 operating budget. Substitutes in the city were paid for a...
View ArticleCity Workers’ Free-Parking ‘Secret’
If you want to avoid a parking ticket in the city, the surest way is to park in front of the police station. Or across the street. The two dozen meters on Arcand Drive serve as an unofficial...
View ArticleState police often don’t comply with Public Records Law
The Massachusetts State Police is a habitual offender — verging on a career criminal — when it comes to breaking a state law intended to ensure government is accountable to the people it serves. The...
View ArticleSeat belt enforcement raises question: Saving lives or setting ticket quotas?
Robert Williams had seen enough. The chief of the state police and a 30-year veteran had seen enough mangled bodies in car wrecks. Enough distraught and hysterical mothers and fathers. Enough lives...
View ArticleBlind spots in electronic monitoring of sex offenders
A little more than a year ago, California began testing the GPS monitoring devices that track the movements of thousands of sex offenders. The results were alarming. Corrections officials found that...
View ArticleReport: Dropout rate up at three Manchester high schools
The three Manchester high schools have dropout rates that far exceed nearly every other high school in the state, according to data released by state education officials. Manchester West High School...
View ArticleDevelopmentally Disabled, Nursing Homes Can Be Dangerous Mix
Last April, Barbara Vaccaro called a local Italian restaurant and had a plate of ziti and meatballs delivered to her room at the Meridian Manor nursing home in Waterbury. A nurse later found Vaccaro...
View ArticleEthics bills get unanimous support in committee
State legislators and top appointed officials won’t be able to take jobs as lobbyists right after they leave the statehouse, under a bill passed unanimously by a key legislative committee on Friday....
View ArticleDriven to the Edge
The Globe Spotlight team spent nine months examining Boston’s $1 billion taxi industry. Watch videos and slideshows, and keep track of their findings at The Boston Globe
View ArticleHospitals Mobilize To Tackle Alarm Fatigue
Health care experts worry that medical devices with built-in alarms – such as heart monitors, infusion pumps and ventilators – designed to alert caregivers that patients are in danger could potentially...
View ArticleNuclear byproduct levels on Treasure Island higher than Navy disclosed
Land slated for development on Treasure Island contains elevated concentrations of cesium-137, a byproduct of nuclear fission associated with an increased risk of cancer, according to an independent...
View ArticleBoys lag behind girls in school, especially in literacy
As guidance counselor Kathy Batty doled out tips on organization to a classroom of girls and boys in the sixth grade, she did not mention the words “gender,” “achievement,” or “gap.” Nor did she...
View ArticleUniversity system cuts while reserve fund grows to $177m
Four years ago, when the University of Maine System was cutting programs to save money, officials were criticized for not, instead, making up the shortfall by taking money from System reserves. At the...
View ArticleQuestions still surround double-dipping pension incident
Efforts are underway to recover about $11,000 in pension overpayments mistakenly paid to seven retired police officers, but questions remain about the double-dipping of two retirees who came back to...
View ArticleSecret Files Expose Offshore’s Global Impact
Dozens of journalists sifted through millions of leaked records and thousands of names to produce ICIJ’s investigation into offshore secrecy A cache of 2.5 million files has cracked open the secrets...
View ArticleWorcester bank fee backfires on struggling homeowners
Banks and other financial institutions increasingly are lumping the $5,000 cost of the property registration bond into what the borrower owes, making it less likely that struggling homeowners can catch...
View ArticleConnecticut Lags In Mental Health Screening For Children
The American Academy of Pediatrics, citing the need for early intervention, has recommended routine mental health screening, using formal screening tools, for all children and adolescents. In addition,...
View ArticleIndicted promoter has ties to DCU Center event
Worcester native and sports promoter Daniel E. Doyle’s ties to the New England Basketball Hall of Fame, which he founded, have raised questions about the group’s legitimacy in the wake of Mr. Doyle’s...
View ArticleWind power’s grip on Augusta weakening as ‘God’s Country’ presses its case
They came from the townships and plantations of Concord, Lexington, Highland, Carrying Place and Pleasant Ridge. They set out for the statehouse in Augusta from the five sparsely populated backcountry...
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