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YOUR MOVE, BOSTON

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted March 7, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Boston Women's March 2017. Photo by Ryan Dorsey, CC-BY-SA 2.0 Generic.

 

Only a massive protest movement can stop government giveaways to megacorps

 

Boston politics—in both its state and local variants—seems to consist largely of backroom deals between government officials and major corporations punctuated by rituals of representative democracy that are increasingly put on just for show. Perhaps ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Amazon, Apparent Horizon, boondoggle, Boston, Charlie Baker, Column, corporate, corruption, Democracy, economy, fight, General Electric, Giveaway, Jason Pramas, Jeff Bezos, Marty Walsh, Massachusetts, news, Politics, Protest, public, socialism, taxes

HUBWEAK: THE BOSTON GLOBE HAS HIT ROCK BOTTOM

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted October 23, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS

Their “Dear Jeff” apple bob was a pathetic cornucopia of thick yellowish liquid produced in infected tissue, bubbling with rhetorical bacteria and mayonnaise.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, Amazon, bospoli, Boston, Boston Globe, HUBweek, Jeff Bezos

JUST ASK DIAPERS.COM

Written by MO LOTMAN Posted October 11, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Jaguar image

More reasons Boston should take a hard pass on Amazon

 

There are myriad practical reasons why Boston should walk away from the Amazon headquarters sweepstakes: an out-of-control real estate and rental market, chronic transit and traffic problems, and an overheated tech sector, which is exacerbating inequality. But ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: Amazon, Boston, capitalism, commerce, corporation, criticism, deal, Giveaway, jobs, labor, Massachusetts, monopoly, public, taxes

AMAZON OCTAGON

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted October 10, 2017 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Mass pols stand ready to fight each other for the right to bribe a multinational

 

At least 17 Massachusetts cities and towns are now preparing to do battle with each other—and hundreds more municipalities nationwide—for the dubious “honor” ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Abington, Amazon, Apparent Horizon, Billerica, Boston, bribe, capitalism, corporation, criticism, deal, Fall River, General Electric, Giveaway, Haverhill, Jason Pramas, jobs, labor, Lawrence, Lowell, Massachusetts, Methuen, multinational, New Bedford, North Andover, public, Revere, Rockland, SOMERVILLE, Springfield, subcontracting, taxes, Tewksbury, Weymouth, Worcester

AN AMAZON NORTH ANDOVER DEAL?

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted September 26, 2017 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Sketch of the Merrimack Valley Works plant at North Andover while under construction in 1955

 

Merrimack Valley pols courting the tech behemoth have forgotten recent history

 

A couple of weeks ago, I criticized the possibility of an Amazon ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, agriculture, Amazon, Apparent Horizon, AT&T, Boston, cannabis, capitalism, corporation, criticism, deal, factory, Farm, General Electric, Giveaway, Haverhill, Jason Pramas, jobs, labor, Lawrence, Ma Bell, Marijuana, Massachusetts, Merrimack Valley, Methuen, North Andover, Osgood Landing, plant, Politics, public, subcontracting, taxes, union, works

STOP THE AMAZON BOSTON DEAL

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

Locals have until Oct 19 to say ‘No Public Bribes to Corporate Scofflaws’

 

Fresh off of throwing tens of millions of dollars at General Electric, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Massachusetts Gov. Charlie ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, Amazon, Apparent Horizon, Boston, capitalism, corporation, criticism, deal, General Electric, Giveaway, Jason Pramas, jobs, labor, Massachusetts, public, subcontracting, taxes, union

Q&A: THE PROCESS BEHIND ‘PROCESS’

Written by DIG STAFF Posted January 29, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Books

"It turns out that I’m super-regimented in the face of a serious deadline like this one, even though the hysteria and panic linger close to the surface."

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: Amazon, Boston, Cambridge, David Foster Wallace, DFW writing habits, Franzen, Infinite Jest, Process, Rugrats, Sarah Stodola, The Broom of the System, The Pale King, writing, writing process

EXCERPT: THE WRITING LIFE OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

Written by DIG STAFF Posted January 29, 2015 Filed Under: Books, FEATURES, Non-fiction

Part of a draft of The Pale King was written in a notebook with a character from the animated TV series Rugrats on the cover, another in one featuring a photo of kittens.

Filed Under: Books, FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: Amazon, Boston, Cambridge, David Foster Wallace, DFW writing habits, Franzen, Infinite Jest, Process, Rugrats, Sarah Stodola, The Broom of the System, The Pale King, writing, writing process

BOOZING ABROAD: SOUTHIE NATIVE DRINKS GLOBALLY IN NEW TRAVEL CHANNEL SHOW

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted November 24, 2014 Filed Under: Drinks, Eats

An actor by trade who lives in LA, Jack Maxwell has been preparing for a gig that involves bouncing around the globe to share exotic (and sometimes ceremonial or religious) hooch amid colorful stories with locals since boyhood.

 

Maxwell, a Boston native who grew up in the Southie projects as an ...  read more

Filed Under: Drinks, Eats Tagged With: Amazon, anise, booze traveler, boozing, bullfrog, ceremonial, Dig Boston, DigBoston, drinking, fruit, Iceland, molassess, mongolia, moonshine, ouzo, poison dart, projects, raki, rotten shark, sambuca, shoe shine, south africa, South Boston, Southie, spit beer, ST. PETER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, travel channel, turkey

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