Or how tax breaks for fat cats relate to a defeat for Harvard management rats
“Opportunity” for the few
Gov. Charlie Baker submitted paperwork to the US Department of Treasury last week, according ...
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Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Townie
Written by LYNNE DONCASTER Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
I got in touch with former Mayor Brune to ask about the statues. He had been concerned about longevity and preservation but was told they were temporary. “Not to the extent that they were going to take them down,” he recalled, “[but] they weren’t going to last a lifetime.”
Written by PETER ROBERGE Filed Under: COLUMNS, DigThis, Dirty Old Boston
In order to make such a corridor for motor vehicles possible, housing would have had to be demolished. As the city saw in the West End and other neighborhoods, “the consequential displacement would affect thousands of longtime residents,” Vrabel said.
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, Media Farm
In the past two weeks alone, the Dig has been excited to see several stories that we first dug into, in some cases with help from the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, that have since been picked up by the larger mainstream media.
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Townie
Typically, I mainly focus on Bay State issues in this column. But I’ll make an exception this time and ... read more
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Townie
If there’s one thing I think people should do every day, it’s read the business press. Because that’s where you see how the world runs. A world that naturally includes Massachusetts.
Airlines sue Mass over sick time law
Case in point, Airlines ... read more
Written by SETH KERSHNER Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
“For them to use a hateful meme of me in what is supposedly training material is just terrifying,” Sullivan wrote. “It shows just how openly they condone harassment campaigns against anti-racist protesters.”
Written by BRITNI DE LA CRETAZ Filed Under: FEATURES, LIFESTYLE, Non-fiction
Most boys will never be major league baseball players. Up until now, though, no woman has ever been one. For men, it’s a long shot. For women, it’s a fantasy, something reinforced by the very name of the camp—a name that can seem both inspiring and insulting at once.
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader
If you think that Facebook is the leading culprit in the case of Who Killed Journalism?, then I may just know a Russian bot or two who’s in the process of selling your digits off to dogs.
Written by MIRIAM WASSER Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
This year’s meeting was particularly fraught because a series of strong winter storms forced the plant to shut down—or scram—twice in the last three months. Pilgrim remains offline as plant workers attempt to fix a transformer located between the electrical switchyard and the reactor.