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HUBWAY’S LOW-INCOME PROGRAM GOES REGIONAL, BUT INFRASTRUCTURE’S STILL BEHIND THE CURVE

Written by ROB KATZ Posted May 14, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

“Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan have the worst infrastructure and the most speeding and lack of bike lanes, let alone protected bike lanes, but unfortunately we feel that the city is lagging behind, period,” Wolfson said. “The entire city needs much more of an investment in bike infrastructure and a much more rapid implementation.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: bicycles, bike, bikes, cycles, Dorchester, Hubway, infrastructure, Mattapan, Roxbury

KNOW THE REGS: CULTIVATION OPPORTUNITIES

Written by ROB KATZ Posted April 24, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Talking Joints Memo

When it comes to cannabis growing in Mass, these tiers go to 11

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Talking Joints Memo Tagged With: #mapoli, cannabis, Cannabis Control Commission, Commonwealth, Mass, Massachusetts, medical marijuana, MMA, politics CCC, weed

MADISON PERKS: LONG-STRUGGLING VOCATIONAL SCHOOL PROVIDES NEW OPPS FOR STUDENTS IN TRADES

Written by ROB KATZ Posted April 10, 2018 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

“There’s so much work here, and the workforce is minimally women. Now they know they can come here and get the percentage raised.”

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, BPS, ed, high school, labor, Madison Park Technical Vocational High School, Massachusetts, unions, vocational schools

UNWILLING CONVERTS: SOMERVILLE’S LARGEST CONDO GRAB IN HISTORY YIELDS RELATIVE TENANT WIN IN TENSE MARKET

Written by ROB KATZ Posted March 28, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

“We have to recognize, you know, people enter the building renting because the circumstances mean that renting is what works for them ... I think we have to have protections and safeguards to allow those individuals to continue getting the benefits they’re entitled to.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: building, condos, Curtatone, development, displacement, gentrification, Housing, organizing, SOMERVILLE, tenants, zoning

OUT OF COMMISSION: FOR RECREATIONAL CANNABIS IN MASS, IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS

Written by ROB KATZ Posted February 19, 2018 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Talking Joints Memo

"We don’t want the people who were locked up in the first place to be locked out of opportunities in this space."

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Talking Joints Memo Tagged With: #mapoli, Bolling Building, cannabis, Cannabis Control Commission, Commonwealth, hearings, Mass, Massachusetts, medical marijuana, MMA, politics CCC, Roxbury, weed

POOR PEOPLE’S CAMPAIGN COMES TO THE BAY STATE

Written by ROB KATZ Posted February 14, 2018 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

“Today we are joining tens of thousand of folks across the country in state capitals and Washington, DC, to change these policies that promote systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, and environmental destruction that are threatening our democracy and became our national morality.”

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, DC, economy, Mass, Poor People's Campaign, poverty, PPC

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