Charlie Baker Archives

POLITICALLY CONNECTED CONSULTANTS WIN LARGE COVID SCHOOL CONTRACTS IN MASS

Like the state government’s contract for no-bid saliva tests, the contract with McKinsey was issued without going through the standard bidding process

DAN ATKINSON November 1, 2020

“COMPELLING” CASE MADE IN 5-PLUS HOUR COMMUTATION HEARING

“I cannot be silent when I helped to bring about the conviction of a man for the wrong crime”

JEAN TROUNSTINE October 28, 2020

KRAFT GROUP AMONG BUSINESSES SELLING PPE TO MASS W/ NO-BID CONTRACTS

While not all of this spending is coronavirus-related, it’s easy to see how some vendors have found new opportunities with the pandemic.

DAN ATKINSON August 18, 2020

LANDLORDS CAN’T EVICT DURING PANDEMIC, BUT A BUNCH OF THEM TRIED

“It was sort of testing the water with it, seeing what [evictions] they can get away with. This legislation stopped folks in their tracks before it caught on.”

DAN ATKINSON April 29, 2020

THE DYSFUNCTIONAL MASS PAROLE BOARD’S INEVITABLE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS

“Most prisons and many jails have done very little to reduce the population density that puts both incarcerated people and staff at grave risk.”

JEAN TROUNSTINE April 21, 2020

ADVOCATES SUE, ARGUE IMMEDIATE DECARCERATION NEEDED TO SAVE LIVES

To keep people locked up despite the looming threat of coronavirus, officials are claiming prisoners lack community ties. Advocates and family members say that’s not the case.

JEAN TROUNSTINE April 2, 2020

MORE ETA, LESS WTF

This marketing company with political ties is getting paid millions to “humanize” the MBTA brand

DAN ATKINSON March 4, 2020

BINJ ED DIRECTOR DISCUSSES STATE POLICE INVESTIGATION ON BLOOMBERG RADIO

In addition to appearing in DigBoston, the article has also been published by our frequent partners at the Shoestring in Western Mass, and it will also run in the upcoming issue of the Bay State Banner.

BINJ ONLINE October 16, 2019

REAL TROOPERS & BEEPER DAYS

Consultants told Mass State Police how to avoid turmoil. The department ignored the advice and spent the following two decades spiraling toward boundless corruption.

CHRIS FARAONE October 10, 2019

THERE’S MUCH MORE TO THE MASS STATE POLICE SCANDAL THAN IS BEING REPORTED

“Pullman, Lynch and others were also allegedly involved in a scheme to defraud two different companies that sought to do business with the Commonwealth.”

CHRIS FARAONE August 21, 2019