Plan urges scaffold safety review - By Raja Mishra, The Boston Globe
Amid calls for improved construction safety after the tragedy, state lawmakers conceded that comprehensive safety overhauls for construction sites may take years to develop and enact because a thicket of legal decisions has delegated power over worksites to the federal government.
Construction of a 14-story Emerson College dormitory at the Boylston site, which may resume later this week, would proceed as it did before the deadly accident, without inspections or any government oversight.