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POLITICO Get the Massachusetts Playbook newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by Uber Driver Stories GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. TGIF! CLARK Q&A: ‘CHILD CARE IS INFRASTRUCTURE' — On the heels of passing a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package, lawmakers in Washington are gearing up for another big...

He said the original complaint from the Merrymount Road neighborhood was about speeding drivers. “What we saw when we conducted the study was that speed really wasn’t an issue,” Morse said. “Very few cars were actually speeding, but we found the volume of traffic using Merrymount was much more than the other side streets.” Traffic engineer Owen MacDonald said Morse assigned a speed monitoring trailer to the neighborhood for one month last year. "We got the readings, and for the most part, there were not excessive speeds, but a fair amount of (traffic) volume going through there,” ...

Wicked Local WEYMOUTH- Town Solicitor Joseph Callanan said legal precedents don’t allow Town Council to file a legal brief with federal regulators about safety and health concerns posed by a natural gas compressor station in the Fore River Basin. "Collectively, the Town Council does not have the authority to sue," he said during a Council meeting, March 8.  “If you do it as individuals, I have no problem with that.” Councilor-at-large Rebecca Haugh said her colleagues could draft a letter that details their concerns about the compressor station and give it to residents or community gro...

The company subcontracts the legwork and serves as more of an overseer, but some experts say working double duty as independent investigator and public relations firm raises the specter of a conflict of interest. The optics of a dual role Boston University public relations professor Justin Joseph said there should be a firewall between any investigation and the people doing public relations work. “(Public relations firms) should be seeing that report at the same time as the general public,” he said. Joseph said even the perception that something is untoward can be just as damning as ...

POLITICO Get the Massachusetts Playbook newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM) GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. CAPOBIANCO ACCUSED OF MISCONDUCT, POLS PULL ENDORSEMENTS — The race to fill former Speaker Bob DeLeo's seat in the House was hit with a bombshell...