We get a lot of reader mail at DigBoston, and some of our recent letters and emails have noted that our writers (myself included) can sometimes get juvenile in our vitriolic assaults on “prohibitionists.”
Beacon Hill
SPECIAL FEATURE: GEORGE STRAIGHT
The first in a series profiling aging lifers seeking commutations from Mass prisons
TRUST AND SANCTUARY: AS MASS CITIES BACK IMMIGRANTS AGAINST TRUMP THREAT, SOME CRITICAL NOTES
"Sanctuary city isn’t a legal term, it’s a political term."
COMMONWEALTH CANNABIS COMMITTEE COMMENCES
Mass marijuana comm needs a listening, not a hearing
REEFER MMA-DNESS
How Mass politicians say ‘local control’ when they mean ‘prohibition’
EXPECT DELAYS: IN MASS, WE NOW HAVE TO WAIT MONTHS FOR PUBLIC INFORMATION REQUESTS
The fact is that the update makes it easy and legal for agencies to delay for months and leaves it entirely possible that any agency or municipality can lawfully delay providing records indefinitely.
SHAM CMTE FOR CANNABIS
Legislature’s joint committee on joints convenes (mostly) prohibitionist forces
THE VERIZON SHUFFLE
Why the telecom company’s FiOS promise to Boston is a bait-and-switch
SIF SPACE: WILL MASS BE THE FIRST STATE WITH SAFE INJECTION FACILITIES?
“People are dying across the state ... We need to be open to whatever might be helpful to protect people from the worst consequences of their addictions.”
THE AWAKENING: NEARLY A MONTH AFTER HISTORIC MARCHES, SIGNS OF ENDURING NEW WAVE ACTIVISM FROM THE CITY TO THE ‘BURBS
“The things I wanted were so far outside the mainstream that nobody would listen, so why would I bother?”