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...example, from 2000 to 2003, while the computer services sector shed 27 percent of its jobs in the Bay State, Massachusetts?? colleges and universities increased employment by 5.7 percent...

Author: By Victor W. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Study: Harvard Benefits Local Economy | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...some police officers’ reluctance to enforce the law as it now reads may be because citizens of Massachusetts on whole (police included) overwhelmingly believe that marijuana use should not be considered a crime. While it is understandable that the Massachusetts Sheriff’s Union and the Massachusetts?? Chiefs of Police Association opposed Question 2 (due of the enforcement challenges that it presents), these very organizations could make their own—and citizens’—lives much easier by supporting movements such as the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws...

Author: By Justine R. Lescroart | Title: Half-Baked Reasons For Opposing Pot Law | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

...school approaches to helping violent and potentially violent youth. The program, due to its unusual mixture of public and private partners, will be able to hire 25 new street workers through the Ten Point Coalition (A Boston ecumenical group of clergy and other leaders), therefore bypassing Massachusetts?? Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) laws which prohibit Boston from hiring street workers with a criminal background...

Author: By Joseph A. Poirier | Title: Harvard Not Doing its Part in StreetSafe | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

With the national unemployment rate nearing 7 percent—a figure not seen in the U.S. since 1993—several states have seen their unemployment insurance trust funds shrink to dangerously low levels, with some states already taking out federal loans to pay unemployment benefits. But Massachusetts?? unemployment benefit system remains “strong and solvent” for the foreseeable future, bolstered by over $1 billion in trust fund reserves, according to Robb Smith, director of Policy and Planning for the Mass. Labor and Workforce Development Office. From January through November 2008, the state...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mass. Unemployment Fund Still Solvent in Economic Recession | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

...sample the region’s gastronomical delights. Despite Chiappini procuring both the traditional thin-crust and the exotic “Rustic Cheese” pizzas, Bilotti took a bite of each and then “sauced up” the employee lounge.Luckily, Chiappini had saved Massachusetts??s most-celebrated tradition for last: the dog track. Since election day, dog racing’s days have been numbered. [2] The drunken masses in the Bay State’s voting booths have decided they love marijuana and income taxes more than family entertainment and jobs...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Turkeys & Trifectas | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

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