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THERE IS NOTHING ‘VOLUNTARY’ ABOUT WORKING BAD JOBS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted January 28, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

A brief defense of AOC’s critique of billionaires

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, Apparent Horizon, Ben Shapiro, Bernie Sanders, Boston Herald, co-operative, Column, contingent work, criticism, Democracy, DigBoston, Elections, Jason Pramas, jobs, labor, Mondragon, policy, Politics, propaganda, social democracy, socialism, worker

BREAKING CONCRETE CEILINGS FOR WOMEN OF COLOR COMES WITH A TAX

Written by BEYAZMIN JIMENEZ Posted February 22, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

MassHousing logo screenshot

A response to the Boston Herald

 

In response to the Boston Herald’s overtly racist and sexist  ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: Boston Herald, Chrystal Kornegay, concrete ceiling, criticism, MassHousing, Op-Ed, opinion, racism, sexism

PUBLIC BAD. PRIVATE GOOD? BOSTON HERALD’S ATTACK ON MASSHOUSING HIGHLIGHTS DOUBLE STANDARD IN AMERICAN JOURNALISM

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted February 6, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

Over the last several days, the Boston Herald has had its knives out in no less than three articles and two editorials against MassHousing—an independent, quasi-public agency created in 1966 and charged with providing financing for affordable housing in Massachusetts.

 

 ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston Herald, Braintree, business expense, capitalism, Column, Digital First Media, economy, government, hotel, Jason Pramas, Journalism, labor, leased car, Massachusetts, neoliberal, news, newspaper, per diem, Politics, public, racism, travel

HERALD READERS RESPOND TO ANTIFA COVERAGE

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted August 21, 2018 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS

Antifascist Action symbol circa 1932. designed by Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists members Max Keilson and Max Gebhard.

 

Spoiler alert: anti-nazis are somehow nazis

 

On Saturday, a few hundred left-wing activists showed up to protest a tiny ultra-right wing protest ...  read more

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: analysis, antifa, article, Boston, Boston Herald, communism, communist, counterprotest, Democracy, DigBoston, fascism, fascist, Jason Pramas, Journalism, Massachusetts, media, nazi, nazism, Politics, Protest, socialism, socialist, usa

MASS HYSTERIA: FROM GATEHOUSE, TO THE SLAKE HOUSE, TO THE STATE HOUSE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted December 10, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS

The week Commonwealth residents looked at the encroaching national apocalypse and said, ‘Us too!’

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Charlie Baker, GateHouse, lawmakers, legislature, Mass, Massachusetts, racism, State House, Tom Menino

BROKEN RECORDS: KAFKACHUSETTS

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE Posted December 20, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Uncategorized

Mass AG shows just how useless public info laws are, but change is possible

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Uncategorized Tagged With: andrew quemere, attorney general, Beacon Hill, Boston Herald, Broken Records, FOIA, Massachusetts, Matt Stout, Maura Healey, MBTA, public information, State House, Sunshine, T, transparency, William Galvin

BROKEN RECORDS: BEATING TRANSPARENCY

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE Posted October 4, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

The MBTA doesn’t want you to know how much it spends concealing evidence of police brutality

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: AGO, Anthony Ferrier, Beacon Hill, Boston Herald, Broken Records, FOIA, Maura Healey, MBTA, Park Street Station, police brutality, records reform, Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin

POLICE UNION ATTORNEY BLAMES INTERNET FOR ALLEGED SENDING OF ‘HARMFUL’ PICTURES

Written by DIG STAFF Posted January 24, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS

Some advice for any lawyers out there: If at all possible, avoid saying publicly that you think it’s perfectly OK for grown police officers to send pictures of their genitals to teenagers.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Boston Herald, Boston Police Department, Boston Police Patrolmen's Association, BPD, BPPA, dick pic, O'Ryan Johnson, Pax Centurion, Police, sexting, sexual harassment

YES, WE CANN: HOW BAKER CAN REDUCE OPIATE ABUSE IN THREE EASY STEPS

Written by MIKE CANN Posted October 23, 2015 Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS

In light of these statements, it’s time for the new administration to go beyond their mere acknowledgement of science, and to actually remove the roadblocks that currently deny many legal marijuana patients from gaining access to their medicine.

Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Boston Herald, cannabis, Charlie Baker, Dispensaries, Marijuana, Massachusetts, media, medical marijuana, opiates, pot

CAB FAIR: BOSTON MEDIA DOES RIDESHARE BATTLE JUSTICE

Written by DIG STAFF Posted August 10, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

With a plethora of neoliberal yuppies populating newsrooms in these parts, it’s surprising that more journos, from city desks to oped pages, haven’t run the taxi union out of town already.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, cab wars, cabs, Cambridge, fenway park, innovation, Lyft, media, protests, San Francisco, Target, Taxis, Uber, Uber coverage, Uber Wars, Walmart, wbur, yellow cabs

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