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Articles by Michael Dsida
Some Senate Dems on fence on term limit issue
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE AS SENATE DEMOCRATS emerged Wednesday from a private caucus in President Karen Spilka's office, they had mixed reactions to the proposed removal of a decades-old term limit on the presidency that dates back to the tail-end of Sen. William Bulger's regime. The chamber's Democrats huddled for around three hours ahead of a Thursday formal session where proposed Senate rules ( S 17), joint rules ( S 18), and 44 amendments will be up for discussion.
Encore allowed to expand its gaming footprint
THE MASSACHUSETTS Gaming Commission voted 4-1 on Wednesday to allow Encore Boston Harbor to expand its gambling operations in Everett to a new property under development across the street from the company's existing casino. The commission bent over backwards to accommodate the expansion, interpreting a 2013 vote by Everett voters as a mandate for extending gambling beyond the company's original footprint.
The state child welfare system needs an overhaul, not more Band-Aids
Healey not rushing things at the MBTA GOV. MAURA HEALEY is slowly – some would say too slowly – putting the pieces in place to take control of the MBTA. Back in August, when it was widely expected she would replace Charlie Baker as governor, Healey said she intended to hire a new MBTA general manager and a statewide transportation chief. She also said she wanted two deputy general managers hired, presumably by her new GM.
The state child welfare system needs an overhaul, not more Band-Aids
THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES is broken, and as public defenders faced with the deficiencies of this system every day, we hope Gov. Maura Healey will make it a priority to fix it. The cases of David Almond and Harmony Montgomery have shined a bright light on DCF, but thousands of other children are harmed by DCF's intervention every year, with little public scrutiny. Factoring in poverty, DCF removes children from their homes at one of the highest rates in the country.
Baker proposal for guardians ad litem will only worsen child welfare system - CommonWealth Magazine
A SYSTEM THAT often harms the children it is sworn to protect requires fundamental reform – not tinkering. The $50 million expansion of the child-welfare bureaucracy proposed by Gov. Charlie Baker in response to the disappearance of 7-year-old Harmony Montgomery would not make children safer. Instead, it would leave unaddressed – or even worse, reinforce – some of the Department of Children and Families’ deepest flaws.
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