“You see what’s going on nationally and what’s going on in our schools,” Moore said. “We have to try to be corrective about this.”
NEWS+OPINIONS
NO GLOSS FOR FOSS: SOMERVILLE HAS SCANT GREEN SPACE, BUT WHO WILL MAINTAIN THE LITTLE THERE IS?
“Who’s paying for this, and who’s owning the property after it’s paid for?” he asked. “If we’re going to put millions of dollars into this property, we have to have some say in what goes on with it.”
IN FEAR OF LOSING THEIR VOICES, BOSTON FREEDOM TRAIL GUIDES UNITE AND SPEAK UP (WHILE THEY STILL CAN)
“If I had a dime for every meal or cup of coffee I’ve generated in the North End, I’d have a boat by now.”
DON’T FALL FOR PROPAGANDA, VOTE BASED ON FACTS
In the 2020 election, working voters need to focus on candidates’ platforms… and actions
LET PATIENTS GROW: HARDSHIP MEDICAL CANNABIS CULTIVATORS IN MASS FACE ABSURD OBSTACLES
Got cancer? Tough luck. Got epilepsy? Too bad, so sad. Got chronic pain? Shut up and go eat your opiates.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR WHOM? A HARD LOOK AT SOMERVILLE’S ‘ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT’ ZONES
"What is really critical is that community members have a voice in shaping the direction of what gets developed in our underdeveloped areas of Somerville."
REMEMBER THEIR NAMES: STUDENT ART CHALLENGES HARVARD TO JOIN OTHER MAJOR INSTITUTIONS IN SACKING MONSTERS BEHIND OXYCONTIN
As Tufts was announcing last week that it plans to “remove [the] Sackler name from [its] medical school facilities and programs," on Dec 6, one city over in Cambridge, Harvard students joined community members in unveiling a pointed art installation on the topic.
POWER, FREEDOM, EQUALITY, SAFETY, DIGNITY
“It guarantees housing for survivors of crime and, again, it decriminalizes homelessness, which we know eliminates reinceration for individuals who failed to secure housing.”
A CHARLIE HORSE FROM BAKER DOWN IN WEYMOUTH
It’s time to call the governor out for being a shameless business-assist monkey right now, because later’s always too damn late.
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