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OPINION: MAYOR WU SHOULD IMPLEMENT THE MASSPORT MODEL CITYWIDE

Written by ED GASKIN Posted February 15, 2022 Filed Under: News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

The Massport Model is a way to achieve diversity, equity, and inclusion goals across the state. Now is the time to make it a Boston requirement.

Filed Under: News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: Boston, construction, Mayor Wu, news

OPINION: WALKING THE WALK FOR A MORATORIUM ON PRISON AND JAIL CONSTRUCTION

Written by CLAIRE GOSSELIN Posted October 5, 2021 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Image courtesy of Massachusetts Peace Action

Freeze all new prison and jail construction in Massachusetts for five years

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: construction, jail, legislation, Mass Peace Action, Massachusetts, opinion, prison, Women

HALF PIPES AND QUARTER TRUTHS

Written by Posted September 5, 2019 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

“That’s why we have to keep constructing our own platforms for tricks. We’re a DIY community, so it’s what we’re used to, but it would be great to get support from the state for this—especially since it’s already been promised.”

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, Boston, construction, DCR, Jamaica Plain, jp, park, skate park, skateboarding, skating, Southwest Corridor

THE YEAR(S) IN CASEY OVERPASS REPLACEMENT PICS

Written by DIG STAFF Posted December 18, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

with another year of congestion and fumes behind us, we dipped into our thickening folder of Forest Hills images, and also pulled a couple of ringers from Instagram.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: big dig, Boston, Casey Overpass, construction, Forest Hills, Jamaica Plain, jp

GENERAL ELECTRIC FAIL

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 15, 2017 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

Conglomerate’s woes throw Boston HQ deal contradictions into bold relief

 

What a surprise. General Electric is tanking, and the scheme to bring the multinational’s headquarters to Boston is looking worse by the day. And whom shall the public blame if that once-secret deal cut by Gov. Charlie Baker and Mayor Marty Walsh in January 2016 goes south? Potentially ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: boondoggle, Boston, Boston Globe, Boston Planning and Development Agency, Boston Redevelopment Authority, building, capitalism, construction, corporation, corruption, criticism, deal, fort point, GE, General Electric, Giveaway, Gov Charlie Baker, headquarters, jobs, labor, Massachusetts, mayor Marty Walsh, Necco, PILOT, PR, Procter & Gamble, public, public relations, scam, scheme, tax breaks

A DISINVESTMENT STORY: SOME CRITICAL BACKGROUND ON UMASS BOSTON WOES

Written by TOM GOODKIND Posted April 14, 2017 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Who tells Harvard or Bowdoin to focus on workforce development?

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: board of trustees, construction, development, Fair Share amendment, garages, history, Massachusetts, UMass, UMASS-Boston, Ward commission

GUEST OP-ED: THEY CAN’T BREATHE

Written by DIG STAFF Posted January 15, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

On exploitation and asbestos (plus solutions)

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: asbestos, Beacon Hill, Boston, building boom, construction, Donald Trump, house, immigrant workers, lawmakers, legislature, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, mitigation, senate, State House, undocumented workers

END GAMES: PUT THIS IN YOUR BOSTON 2024 TIME CAPSULE AND CHOKE ON IT

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted July 28, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

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.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Boston 2024, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, CommonWealth Magazine, Conor Yunits, construction, cost overruns, Howie Carr, International Olympic Committee, IOC, John Fish, mayor Marty Walsh, Steve Pagliuca, United States Olympic Committee, USOC, Widett Circle

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