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Statewide, officials estimated Massachusett kept $16.5 billion within its borders by changing the way it uses energy over the years that followed the 1973 energy crisis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Massachusetts Leads U.S. In Decreasing Energy Use | 10/18/1983 | See Source »

Ward, president of Amherst College until 1979, picked up first-hand knowledge of the intricacies of Massachusett's contract awarding system after his appointment by former Gov. Michael Dukakis three years ago to head an investigative commission on state-funded construction...

Author: By James W. Silver, | Title: A Watchdog from the Academy | 11/4/1981 | See Source »

...hints peripherally at how this "movement" might take shape with a discussion of Massachusett's 1978 tax classification battle, Proposition One. Voters here did approve this referendum over the well-financed protests of the business community, and Kuttner devotes a long, celebratory passage to the efforts to pass it. But the author glosses over the approval two years later, of Proposition 2 1/2, the massive tax cutting ballot initiative. Kuttner's evanescent constituency even in the nation's most liberal state, disappeared almost immediately...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Render Unto Jarvis... | 2/24/1981 | See Source »

Subways, buses, and commuter trains will operate as usual this week, but the state's embattled transit system remains in limbo, pending a ruling by Massachusett's highest court...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: MBTA Funding Remains Precarious As King Awaits High Court's Decision | 11/25/1980 | See Source »

What is really at stake for Thurmond and Helms--and Massachusett's Ed King for that matter--is the preservation of their charade. Their future, and the future of the right-wing boom as a whole, depends on the knack of these politicians for plugging into the money and power of corporate America while continuing to sound the horn of the little man fighting high taxes and big government...

Author: By Cliff Sloan, | Title: Ruse of the Right | 10/10/1978 | See Source »

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