Everything you didn’t want to know about cannibal swine and trash feeding, from Mass to the UK
Charlie Baker
THREAT LEVEL: HYPOTHETICAL
It was a standard public information request … until the state set up a maze to block one intrepid reporter’s access to records
THE HIGH ROAD REVISITED: WHAT A LONG, STRANGE WAR IT’S BEEN ON LEGALIZATION IN MASS
From ballot questions to elections and over bureaucratic hurdles, we’ve trudged through many muddy trenches toward the endless fields of grass ahead.
JUDGE DREAD: SINCE YOU’RE ALREADY WORRYING ABOUT TRUMP’S APPOINTMENTS …
Baker’s judicial picks include a corporate lawyer and a star DUI attorney
GENDER CONFINEMENT: MASS DOC CONTENDS IT CAN DISCRIMINATE AGAINST TRANSGENDER INMATES
Why does the DOC believe it is allowed to house transgender people in the wrong gender facility?
THE BOSTON GLOBE AND JOHN OLIVER: WHICH ONE IS FULL OF CRAP ABOUT CHARTER SCHOOLS?
He’s a shameless mouthpiece for the businesspeople aiming to shift more public dollars toward institutions that are not accountable to taxpayers.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIE: AN UPDATE ON THE ETHICALLY BANKRUPT CAMPAIGN AGAINST LEGAL CANNABIS IN MASS
His mistakes go on, from claiming, “decriminalization destroys early intervention,” to failing to understand that court-ordered drug treatment for pot is an enormous waste of resources that could go to treating opiate addiction.
LIQUOR LICENSE UPDATE: THE THIRSTY GAMES CONTINUE
After failed attempt to give Boston control of licenses, liquor laws still stuck in last century
PIPE NIGHTMARE: THE BIGGEST ACTION YET AGAINST ENCROACHING GAS LINES IN MASS
"People Over Pipelines is certainly the biggest march we have ever planned. Organizing the march has taken countless hours of work."
WELFARE KINGS: BAKER MOVES TO MAKE CORPORATE GIVEAWAYS EVEN SWEETER
It’s the situation that arises when a giant corporation like GE wants extraordinary amounts of state money to site facilities in the Commonwealth.