The week Commonwealth residents looked at the encroaching national apocalypse and said, ‘Us too!’
BROKEN RECORDS: KAFKACHUSETTS
Mass AG shows just how useless public info laws are, but change is possible
BROKEN RECORDS: BEATING TRANSPARENCY
The MBTA doesn’t want you to know how much it spends concealing evidence of police brutality
POLICE UNION ATTORNEY BLAMES INTERNET FOR ALLEGED SENDING OF ‘HARMFUL’ PICTURES
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.
YES, WE CANN: HOW BAKER CAN REDUCE OPIATE ABUSE IN THREE EASY STEPS
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.
CAB FAIR: BOSTON MEDIA DOES RIDESHARE BATTLE JUSTICE
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.
END GAMES: PUT THIS IN YOUR BOSTON 2024 TIME CAPSULE AND CHOKE ON IT
The mayor saved Bostonians from a Summer Games budget-fuck no more than someone who arranges for a kidnapping and then pays the ransom rescued a missing child.
RIPS AND PIECES: RANDOM NEWS RANTS AND A BRIEF RETURN TO MEDIA FARM FORM
We are no longer traveling to a certain corner of Connecticut where Boston.com Senior Writer Sara Morrison’s grandparents live.
GUEST MEDIA FARM: WHO IS KEVIN PETERSON?
Peterson is apparently attempting to be seen as an intellectual voice of reason, a behind-the-scenes convener and a major player.
HELP US BUILD A SKYSCRAPER IN BOSTON GLOBE COLUMNIST SHIRLEY LEUNG’S BACKYARD
It’s difficult to entertain this kind of utter bullshit humorously, though lampooning Leung’s fraudulence helps to curb the fits of rage that she provokes.
