Op-Ed
COMMUNITIES RESPONDING TO EXTREME WEATHER
Facing challenges in climate change preparedness, Mass neighbors assist neighbors
Human civilization is living in difficult and unprecedented times, the likes of which we have never seen before. There are many injustices happening in our world today that manifest in forms of racism, sexism, ageism, classism, xenophobia, environmental ...
YOUNG CLIMATE SCIENTISTS SPEAK OUT
“We study climate change. Our generation’s future will be defined by it. We support the climate strike.”
As climate researchers, our job is to improve the accuracy of climate forecasts; as members of society, our responsibility is to help reduce the impacts of climate change. Our generational challenge is to contend with how life might change in a new climate—and ...
WEYMOUTH ACTIVISTS CONTINUE TO CHALLENGE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Against all odds, a dogged group of Fore River Basin residents decided to put up a fight, the ferocity of which Enbridge never saw coming.
THE EPSTEIN STENCH
We can’t just hold our noses and look away from academia’s dirty money
The 2018 Disobedience Award ceremony was a full MIT Media Lab spectacle. Carefully produced, lavishly ...
RENT CONTROL REQUIRED
Single mother working for the city of Boston can’t afford to live here
A city employee is often required to live within the city in which they are employed. Luckily, in my case that is not a requirement. It’s not recommended that an individual pay more than 30% of their gross monthly income towards rent. Thirty percent of ...
LAST CALL FOR JUSTICE AT THE EAST CAMBRIDGE COURTHOUSE
City council must resist bogus privatization scheme
Everyone agrees the state-owned Sullivan Courthouse site in East Cambridge needs to be remediated of asbestos and prepared for redevelopment.
The current proposal, backed by the Baker administration and Cambridge’s city manager, would accomplish ...
WHY REPARATIONS: AMERICA NEEDS TO PAY UP AND PAY FORWARD
Uncle Will’s grandmother, my spouse’s great-grandmother, was born into slavery and died as a free woman at the age of 108. Sometime during Reconstruction (1863-1877), the great-grandmother accrued a small plot of farmland that now awaits its fate, as her brood scrape together enough money to keep it.
COUNTERPOINT: PROGRESSIVES AGAINST PROGRESS
Why is Cambridge afraid of affordable housing?
When Cambridge city staff decided to use the city’s zoning code to incentivize the creation of affordable housing, they faced a choice. They could, like generations of planners before them, trace old zoning and neighborhood boundaries, but those boundaries ...