Alternatives for feuding student immigrant advocates and journalists As someone who has been both a journalist and a left-wing political activist for a long time, I suppose it’s inevitable that I would feel the need to weigh in on a debate currently raging between Harvard immigrant advocates and the independent Harvard student […]
SOMERVILLE NEWS GARDEN HOLDS FIRST PUBLIC EVENT
Seeks more participation from Somerville residents It has been nine months since DigBoston and the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism partnered with the Somerville Media Center to organize an event asking Somervillians what kind of coverage was missing from their city’s remaining news media. The February 2019 Somerville Community Summit ultimately attracted 115 […]
A LOCAL VOTING PRIMER FOR WORKING PEOPLE
Democracy is for everybody, not just the rich. So get to the polls! Local elections are far more important than Mass voters seem to think, given the historically low turnouts for most of them in recent decades. Especially during off-year contests like this year’s. So, for starters, I just want to encourage everyone […]
MARCHING SEASON: JOIN THE RALLY FOR RENT CONTROL
Mass State House, Oct 29, noon-1:30 pm Twenty-five years after the real estate industry destroyed rent control in Massachusetts, marching season is upon us. A call to arms has been raised by tenant organizations across the land and real estate interests are being pushed back for the first time in decades. So, it’s […]
CAMBRIDGE ARTISTS FIGHTING BACK AGAINST DISPLACEMENT
Reflections on a new grassroots political movement in formation Another Cambridge arts institution is being pushed out of its longtime home by a greedy landlord. And once again, local artists are mobilizing to “discuss and organize for meaningful political action to support the arts” in that city—as the Facebook event page of Monday’s […]
MA SHOULD JOIN CA, ND IN STARTING A PUBLIC BANK
Support needed for the Massachusetts Infrastructure Bank bill (H.935/S.579) A fast take this time out on an interesting West Coast development that could lead to the creation of much-needed state institution here in the Commonwealth. It seems California passed a law last week allowing the formation of up to 10 public banks in […]
EDITORIAL: DIGBOSTON SEEKS ADS FROM COLLEGES & COMMUNITY BANKS
Have a connection for us? Drop us a line. Regular readers will recall that my DigBoston colleagues, Chris Faraone and John Loftus, and I love to pull back the curtain on our operations now and again to give our audience a look at how an alternative weekly newspaper like ours runs. The better […]
SIDDIQUI TAKES A DIVE: JOINS MAYOR MCGOVERN, OTHER CAMBRIDGE COUNCILORS IN GREENLIGHTING BACKROOM COURTHOUSE DEAL
The fix was in. While the world was gearing up for the global climate strike last week, the years-long fight over the future of the Sullivan Courthouse in East Cambridge ended in a fast flurry of political maneuvers. Whose outcome surprised no one. Only the manner of the violation of the public trust […]
THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT TO COME: HOW CAN WE BUILD THE MAJORITARIAN SOCIAL FORCE WE NEED TO SLOW GLOBAL WARMING?
If brilliant Boston and the supposedly clever state surrounding it can’t get their climate remediation and preparedness acts together, how are less wealthy parts of the country supposed to manage the job?
THE POLITICAL MOVEMENT TO COME
How Cambridge can put public need before private greed A five-hour city council hearing can really get you thinking. As I sat watching the latest chapter in the East Cambridge courthouse saga unfold at city hall on Monday, I mulled over what it would take to start moving the city away from dependence […]
