Archive for March, 2012

Game teaches finances to Peoria High School students

About 100 Peoria High students recently got a dose of reality as they were given budgets and then had life fly at them. Forgot to return that rented movie? $50. Semester grades on hold until campus parking tickets are paid? $200. That night out bowling results in a negative bank account, plus overdraft fees? $40. [...]

Davey: MBTA finances are broken

The MBTAs current levels of service are unaffordable and cannot continue, state Transportation Secretary Richard Davey said today as he addressed ways to cut a $161-million deficit. The current system we have is one that we cannot afford, Davey said during remarks this morning to the South Shore Chamber of Commerce in Quincy. The MBTA [...]