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CURRENT STREET EDITION

DIG 23.05 – 4/8/21

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THE OPPONENT: NEWCOMER MCBRIDE TAKES ON BAKER IN D3

Written by CHRIS HUES Posted April 18, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“We have added housing to the market over the past few years, but we haven’t made significant gains against the underlying occupancy rate.”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: City Council, Green New Deal, opiod, Politics

SPECIAL FEATURE: THE TROLL TOLL

Written by ADAM SENNOTT Posted November 17, 2020 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Municipalities brave Zoom learning curve in pandemic times.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Cambridge, City Council, City Hall, coronavirus, COVID, Pandemic Democracy Project, Politics, SOMERVILLE, Somerville News Garden

CAMBRIDGE POLS, POLICE COMMISSIONER MELT DOWN OVER BLM DEBATE

Written by MARC LEVY Posted June 12, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Police commissioner Branville G. Bard Jr. takes the dais Sunday at a Black Lives Matter protest on Cambridge Common. Photo by Marc Levy, Cambridge Day.

Motion over redirecting $4.1M in police funding causes council to explode in anger, accusations

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, Branville G. Bard Jr., Cambridge, Cambridge Police Department, City Council, Debate, defund the police, E. Denise Simmons, Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, Massachusetts, news, Politics, Protest, Quinton Zondervan, slider, Sumbul Siddiqui

CAMBRIDGE ARTISTS FIGHTING BACK AGAINST DISPLACEMENT

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted October 16, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

Reflections on a new grassroots political movement in formation

 

Another Cambridge arts institution is being pushed out of its longtime home by a greedy landlord. And once again, local artists are mobilizing to “discuss and organize for meaningful political action to support the arts” in that city—as the Facebook ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, Apparent Horizon, Art, artists, Ben Simon, Cambridge, City Council, Column, displacement, EMF, gentrification, Green Street Studios, Housing, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, Mobius, Nadeem Mazen, news, Nicola Williams, Politics

THE POLITICAL MOVEMENT TO COME

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted September 11, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Scenes from the 9.9.19 Cambridge City Council hearing on parking space disposition for the disputed Sullivan Courthouse development

How Cambridge can put public need before private greed

 

A five-hour city council hearing can really get you thinking.

 

As I sat watching the latest chapter in the East Cambridge courthouse saga unfold at city hall on ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Cambridge, City Council, Column, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, corporate greed, DCAMM, Debate, Democracy, development, dispute, East Cambridge, Environment, Health, Housing, Jason Pramas, parking, Politics, Sullivan Courthouse

SOMERVILLE LICENSING COMMISSION WAIVES APPLICATION FEES FOR CANNABIS DISPENSARIES

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted March 18, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Talking Joints Memo

As the licensing approval process in some towns and cities has been compared to both ransom and extortion, this week the Somerville Licensing Commission, in what appears to be a statewide first, passed a measure to sidestep at least some of the insanity that hopeful legal weed growers and sellers face in Mass.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Talking Joints Memo Tagged With: application fees, cannabis, Cannabis Control Commission, CCC, City Council, Licensing Commission, Marijuana, SOMERVILLE, Somerville News Garden, voters

CEASEFIRE ON THE COMMON

Written by ANDY GAUS Posted October 20, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Talking Joints Memo

The meeting, on the whole, was constructive, and MassCann and the Friends agreed to stay in touch before, during, and after next year’s rally.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Talking Joints Memo Tagged With: Boston, Boston City Hall, City Council, Freedom Rally, Friends of the Public Garden, MassCann

QUICK & DIRTY CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL ELECTION GUIDE

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 1, 2017 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS

collage of 2017 Cambridge City Council candidates

Because in a race with 26 candidates, you’ll only remember slogans

 

Everyone outside Cambridge thinks they understand why it’s kind of a weird place. But to truly apprehend how odd the city is, you really need to vote in one of its municipal elections. Especially this one. Where else in the area do you have a ranked choice voting ...  read more

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Cambridge, candidates, City Council, Election, guide, Jason Pramas, list, Massachusetts

SHAME TIME: IT’S TIME TO MAKE NONVOTERS FEEL EXTREMELY UNCOMFORTABLE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted September 20, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader

They poison our Facebook and Twitter feeds, struggling to channel their emotions and be heard. But while they’re willing to piss into the bottomless rhetorical ocean that is social media, they’re not willing to pull the singular lever that has measurable impact. Imagine the nerve.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader Tagged With: #mapoli, 2017 races, Allston-Brighton, Beacon Hill, Boston politics, Brawl for City Hall, Cambridge, City Council, City Hall, corruption, coverage, D9, District 9, east boston, education, indictments Mark Ciommo, Joe Curtatone, Massachusetts politics, mayor Marty Walsh, Mayor tom Menino, Politics, schools, SOMERVILLE, South Boston, State House, strong mayor, Tito Jackson, weak mayor

WE INTERVIEWED MORE THAN 25 BOSTON CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES ABOUT SCHOOLS

Written by DIG STAFF Posted September 19, 2017 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

We really did sit down with 27 candidates for Boston City Council—from at-large contenders to those trying for district seats—to ask about Boston Public Schools.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, 2017 races, Ayanna Pressley, Beacon Hill, Boston, Boston politics, Boston Public Schools, BPS, Brawl for City Hall, Cambridge, City Council, City Hall, corruption, coverage, D7, District 7, Domingos DaRosa, east boston, education, indictments, Joe Curtatone, Lydia Edwards, Margaret Farmer, Massachusetts politics, mayor Marty Walsh, Mayor tom Menino, Pat Payaso, Politics, Roxbury, Rufus Faulk, schools, SOMERVILLE, South Boston, State House, strong mayor, TenPoint Coalition, Tito Jackson, weak mayor

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