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Opinion: Trouble with a Capital T

Written by PAT JEHLEN Posted September 6, 2022 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Sen. Pat Jehlen and Reps. Mike Connolly, Paul Donato, and Steve Ultrino on a trip to see how the Orange Line shuttle would work. Photo courtesy of Sen. Pat Jehlen.

"The Fair Share Amendment is our best chance to raise more revenue and say that safety, public transit, education, and our future are worth paying for."

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: analysis, background, crisis, Gov Charlie Baker, legislature, Massachusetts, MBTA, opinion, Politics, public transportation, Sen. Pat Jehlen, SOMERVILLE, transit

Biden’s Student Loan Debt Cancellation Is a Real Victory for Working Families

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted August 25, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Image by Jason Pramas

Now we need to debunk Republican propaganda claiming the opposite and move on to win real higher-education reform

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: America, analysis, Apparent Horizon, Column, corporation, debt cancellation, Democracy, Democrat, federal, government, higher education, Jason Pramas, President Joe Biden, public, reform, Republican, strategy, student loan, taxes, US, usa, working class, working families

‘Cloudy With a Chance of Fascists’: Boston needs a hard right alert system

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 8, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Collage by Jason Pramas, CC-BY 2.0. "Alarm Clock 2" image by Alan Cleaver is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. "File:Map of Boston and Cambridge.png" image by OpenStreetMap contributors is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

And people ready to nonviolently counterdemonstrate at a moment’s notice

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: alarm, alert, analysis, Apparent Horizon, Boston, Column, counterdemonstrate, counterdemonstration, criticism, Democracy, early warning, fascism, fascist, hard right, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, Protest, ultra right, US, usa

Why This Pit Kid Is Not Going to ‘Pit-A-Palooza’

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted June 23, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

I just can’t attend an event run by people that have helped kill everything that made Cambridge special

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: analysis, Apparent Horizon, Art, Cambridge, City of Cambridge, Column, criticism, culture, Democracy, Denise Jillson, East Cambridge Courthouse, Harvard Square Business Association, Homeless, Housing, Jason Pramas, Marc McGovern, Massachusetts, pit kid, Pit-A-Palooza, rent control, unhoused, Youth

Lack of Debate Most Disturbing Aspect of Mass Congressional Delegation’s Ukraine Vote

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted June 8, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

United States House of Representatives chamber at the United States Capitol in Washington, DC. 27 February 2017. Photo by United States House of Representatives. Public Domain.

Bay State reps and senators support providing $40 billion in mostly military aid on the quiet, risking nuclear war alongside accelerating economic crises at home and abroad

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: $40 billion, aid, analysis, Apparent Horizon, Column, Congress, criticism, delegation, Democracy, Democratic Party, Democrats, humanitarian, intelligence, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, military, Pres. Joe Biden, Rep Stephen Lynch, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Rep. Bill Keating, Rep. Jake Auchincloss, Rep. Jim McGovern, Rep. Katherine Clark, Rep. Richard Neal, Rep. Seth Moulton, Russia, Sen. Ed Markey, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Ukraine, vote, weapons

OPINION: R.I.P. ROE?

Written by PAT JEHLEN Posted May 4, 2022 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Politics

Freedom is a constant struggle

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Politics Tagged With: abortion, analysis, commentary, criticism, federal, law, Massachusetts, Roe, Roe v. Wade, SOMERVILLE, Supreme Court

POOR PROTEST COVERAGE SHOWS NEED FOR MASS JOURNALISM COMMISSION

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted October 4, 2021 Filed Under: Analysis, Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Image courtesy of Extinction Rebellion Boston

Environmental zap action in front of Gov. Baker’s Swampscott home gets lots of attention with little useful context due to shrinking local press corps

Filed Under: Analysis, Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, analysis, Apparent Horizon, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Climate Change, Column, communication, criticism, Democracy, Extinction Rebellion, global warming, Jason Pramas, Journalism, journalism commission, legislation, legislature, Massachusetts, media, news, press, Protest, reform, Rep. Lori Ehrlich, reporting, Sen. Brendan Crighton, Sunrise Movement, Swampscott, transparency, website

LETTER: SNAP BENEFITS FOR AMAZON WORKERS

Written by DON SOLOMON Posted April 29, 2021 Filed Under: Letters, NEWS+OPINIONS

"20141109-OC-LSC-0006" by USDAgov is marked with CC PDM 1.0

I've been a Dig reader for a long time and read with interest your article on Amazon's low wages being subsidized with SNAP benefits (There's a Cure for Amazon's SNAP Abuse, DigBoston, March 23, 2021).

Filed Under: Letters, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Amazon, analysis, Benefits, labor, SNAP, welfare, worker

MARKET ORIENTATION, TV NEWS, AND THE AMPLIFICATION OF VIOLENCE

Written by GINO CANELLA Posted June 18, 2020 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Chart of Standing Rock media frames

In 2017, we examined CNN and Democracy Now!’s coverage of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock, North Dakota, to understand how the market orientation of two news organizations influenced the production and distribution of their protest coverage.

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: analysis, CNN, criticism, Democracy Now, media, news, opinion, think piece, violence

REPUBLICANS GET MAULED IN SPECIAL ELECTIONS ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS

Written by PATRICK COCHRAN Posted June 5, 2020 Filed Under: Analysis, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Susan Moran

Dems now hold 128 of 160 seats in the House. “Two areas that were strong for Trump a few years ago came back home and voted blue.”

Filed Under: Analysis, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: analysis, news, news to us, Politics, slider

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