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Both Patrick and Christopher F. O. Gabrieli ’81, the 2002 Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, committed to joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)—a pact among several Northeastern states to reduce carbon emissions that Governor W. Mitt Romney opposes...
...Mitt hasn’t sought results,” he said, adding that the governor’s decision to pull out of RGGI was a poor...
Patrick also said that Massachusetts was losing ground to North Carolina and California in biotechnology research. He drew strong applause when he took a shot at Gov. W. Mitt Romney, saying that the governor had refused to fund stem cell research with state money and because he was too concerned with “playing politics...
...passed a bill that would force the Harvard University Police Department to make public its detailed incident reports, setting the stage for a fight in the House of Representatives between police watchdog groups and private colleges. If the legislation passes the House and is signed into law by Governor Mitt Romney, HUPD and other private university police forces would join state and local police in releasing their reports publicly. The bill’s success would also render moot a decision handed down by Massachusetts’ highest court in January, when the Supreme Judicial Court struck down a suit...
When it comes to transportation policy, Mass. Governor Mitt Romney’s priorities are only too clear. As part of the 1990 legal agreement to begin the Big Dig highway project, Massachusetts promised to fund a number of desperately needed public transportation projects in order to ameliorate the increased pollution and traffic that the new highway would generate. But the Romney administration has consistently downsized, delayed, or outright terminated most of the projects that were included in the 1990 agreement, choosing instead to divert transportation funds to other expensive highway projects and mass transit extensions that would primarily benefit...