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COUNTERPOINT: PROGRESSIVES AGAINST PROGRESS

Written by SAUL TANNENBAUM Posted August 22, 2019 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

section of Harvard Square Neighborhood Association flyer modified by Saul Tannenbaum

 

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 ...  read more

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: affordable, Cambridge, Debate, Housing, Massachusetts, overlay, usa

POINT: YES TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING; NO TO THE CITYWIDE OVERLAY

Written by SUZANNE PRESTON BLIER Posted August 22, 2019 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

 

Cambridge is embroiled in a heated debate over the 100% Affordable Housing Overlay (AHO)—a city-wide up-zoning plan to allow large housing developments citywide, four stories (45’) tall in all residential areas and seven stories (80’) tall on major corridors. 

 

 ...  read more

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: affordable, Cambridge, Debate, Housing, Massachusetts, overlay, usa

TOWNIE: CORPORATE TAX FABLES AND COMMUNITARIAN KIDDIE TABLES

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted December 12, 2017 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

CORPORATE TAX FABLES AND COMMUNITARIAN KIDDIE TABLES

 

Big local corps quiet about huge profits to come from Repub tax scheme… except GE

An interesting WBUR article, “Largest Mass. Companies ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: affordable, boondoggle, Boston, BPDA, BRA, Column, corruption, Democrats, developers, economics, Housing, Jason Pramas, malfeasance, Massachusetts, mayor Marty Walsh, Politics, Republicans, ripoff, taxes, Townie, unaffordable

REAL RIDESHARING

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 7, 2017 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Evolving the way the world moves … beyond Uber (and Lyft)

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: affordable, Apparent Horizon, Boston, Fasten, government, Jason Pramas, labor, living wage, Lyft, Mass, Massachusetts, MBTA, municipal, public, ridesharing, transit, transportation, Uber, work, working class

BAB COMPANY: MARIO BATALI BREACHES BOSTON

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted May 8, 2015 Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE

“We wanted to be a humble pizzeria that anyone—a college student to someone buying vintage [bottles of] Barolo—can afford.”

Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE Tagged With: affordable, babbo, date, eataly, fan pier, italian street food, joe bastianich, margherita, mario batali, napolitanian, otto, pizza

LOYAL SERVICE: “COLONIAL-INSPIRED” LOYAL NINE HAS FINALLY ARRIVED TO EAST CAMBRIDGE

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted March 31, 2015 Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE

"I want people to come here for a special occasion, or twice a week if they want to.”

Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE Tagged With: affordable, Atwood’s Tavern, bondir, brasstacks, Cambridge, coastal, colonial, Daniel Myers, David Beller, east coast revival, gastropub, hand taste collective, hungry mother, lamb, le bernadin, Loyal nine, marc sheehan, Menton, new england, ossabaw pigs, penobscot bay, pork, puritan & co., Rebecca Theris, revolutionary, Seafood, shellfish, SOMERVILLE

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