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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

DEATH THREAT AGAINST MASS POLITICIAN IS A BAD SIGN

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted May 20, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Uncategorized

flowers in gun white on black

Should violence replace political debate, democracy could end

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Uncategorized Tagged With: America, Apparent Horizon, Boston, Column, coronavirus, COVID-19, death threat, Debate, Democracy, dialogue, extremism, extremist, guns, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, Politics, Rep. Mike Connolly, slider, United States, violence

KENNEDY IS YOUNGER THAN MARKEY. WHAT ELSE?

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted February 25, 2020 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS

The first debate, for me, didn’t demonstrate a compelling reason to replace Markey—to swap an older straight white male for a younger one.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, Debate, Ed Markey, JKIII, Joe Kennedy, Politics, senate, Senate Race, WGBH

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

COUNTERPOINT: PROGRESSIVES AGAINST PROGRESS

Written by SAUL TANNENBAUM Posted August 22, 2019 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

section of Harvard Square Neighborhood Association flyer modified by Saul Tannenbaum

 

Why is Cambridge afraid of affordable housing?

 

When Cambridge city staff decided to use the city’s zoning code to incentivize the creation of affordable housing, they faced a choice. They could, like generations of planners before them, trace old zoning and neighborhood boundaries, but those boundaries ...  read more

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: affordable, Cambridge, Debate, Housing, Massachusetts, overlay, usa

POINT: YES TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING; NO TO THE CITYWIDE OVERLAY

Written by SUZANNE PRESTON BLIER Posted August 22, 2019 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

 

Cambridge is embroiled in a heated debate over the 100% Affordable Housing Overlay (AHO)—a city-wide up-zoning plan to allow large housing developments citywide, four stories (45’) tall in all residential areas and seven stories (80’) tall on major corridors. 

 

 ...  read more

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: affordable, Cambridge, Debate, Housing, Massachusetts, overlay, usa

SAFE SPACE SOCIALISM

Written by GARY ZABEL Posted November 16, 2017 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

 

Is identity politics running wild in Boston DSA?

 

In 1979, I attended a meeting in Boston between the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) and the New American Movement (NAM). Its purpose was to explore a possible merger between the two organizations. ...  read more

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: BINJ, criticism, Debate, Democracy, identity politics, Op-Ed, Politics, safe space, socialism

EVITA SO WHITE

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted September 27, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Constantine Maroulis (Che) and the cast of “Evita” at North Shore Music Theatre thru October 8, 2017. Photos©Paul Lyden

 

Amid accusations of whitewashing and brownface, North Shore Music Theatre opens Evita

 

With the announcement of North Shore Music Theatre’s cast for Evita ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: actor, casting, controversy, Debate, Evita, Latina, latino, Latinx, Music, North Shore, NSMT, racism, theater

COMMUTE OF THE LIVING DEAD: CAMPAIGN TRAIL

Written by ERIC BOEKER Posted February 21, 2016 Filed Under: Comics

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: babies, baby, Campaign, campaign trail, comic strip, comics, Debate, Democrat, disapproving girlfriends, geek, horror, horror art, horror comedy, horror comic, humor, laugh, Laugh Cartoon Comics, living dead, Night of the Living Dead, Political Humor, Politics, president, Republican, sunday, Sunday Comics, sunday comics project, sundaycomic, undead, Vote 4 Chip, walking dead, webcomic, weird, Zombie, zombie art, Zombie Comedy, zombie comic, zombie webcomic

CHRIS CHRISTIE ON WEED

Written by MIKE CANN Posted August 4, 2015 Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS

Grand old party pooper

Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS Tagged With: 2016, cannabis, Chris Christie, Debate, GOP, Marijuana, pot reform

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