The Dig - Greater Boston's Alternative News Source
What a surprise. General Electric is tanking, and the scheme to bring the multinational’s headquarters to Boston is looking worse by the day. And whom shall the public blame if that once-secret deal cut by Gov. Charlie Baker and Mayor Marty Walsh in January 2016 goes south? Potentially ...
General Electric tries to cheap out on cleaning up its PCB apocalypse on the Housatonic River
General Electric brass, pols celebrate government giveaway while public opposition grows
General Electric’s Boston charm offensive presents dilemma for Boston nonprofits, others
General Electric gets away with defrauding municipal governments for untold millions
Baker is a neoliberal's neoliberal—handing out millions to giant multinational corporations like General Electric with one hand while cutting critical social spending with the other.
General Electric gets bailed out, people get sold out
From endorsement to divorcement, for better or worse, through thick and thin, DigBoston covered Mayor Walsh like no other outlet
Connecticut’s travails in recent years, combined with the unprecedented mobility of wealth, makes it clear that millionaires’ taxes are a 20th-century solution to a 21st-century problem. Embracing them would only prolong states’ long-awaited recovery from the economic effects of COVID-19.
