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...cost $10.8 billion, overruns and unanticipated construction challenges have added $1.4 billion to the cost of the project. While it was not surprising that some cost targets were not met in this mammoth project, there is a deeper problem: The managers of the project apparently concealed that information from state officials, bond rating agencies and the public...
...Only on Feb. 1 did Kerasiotes admit publicly that the cost of the project would increase to $12.2 billion. This prompted U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater to announce that federal funds for the Big Dig would be cut off unless the state came up with a viable plan for financing the project by March 15. As the federal government is paying about 70 percent of the Big Dig costs, such a freeze would be a catastrophic blow to the project...
...This administration has been plagued by public officials' inappropriate behavior. The head of Massport, Peter Blute, was sacked after he took a booze cruise in Boston Harbor. Lt. Governor Jane Swift apologized for her use of a state helicopter for personal purposes. Given these past incidents, Cellucci can ill afford the Big Dig to come to a grinding halt...
...citizens of Massachusetts should be appalled at the conduct of some officials in the Cellucci administration. Governor Cellicci ought to seriously reevaluate the state's management of the Big Dig project. The project's goals should be re-evaluated and re-oriented so that the Big Dig will be finished as quickly--and as close to budget--as possible. In the process, however, the citizens of Massachusetts should be able to believe that the information they are receiving about the Big Dig is full and accurate...
...plan announced yesterday must be approved by the state's Supreme Judicial Court, before the HMO can come out from under state control. Even after the HMO regains its independence, Ruthardt said the insurance commission and attorney general's office will continue to closely monitor Harvard Pilgrim...