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 Monday, I mulled over what it would take to start moving the city away from dependence […]
COUNTERPOINT: PROGRESSIVES AGAINST PROGRESS
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 are the echoes of past racism and […]
POINT: YES TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING; NO TO THE CITYWIDE OVERLAY
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. Although absent from Cambridge’s 2019 Envision new city planning report, the AHO is being […]
SAFE SPACE SOCIALISM
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. DSOC, which came from a split in the old Socialist Party, was […]
EVITA SO WHITE
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 earlier this month came nearly instantaneous backlash over the decision to cast […]
COMMUTE OF THE LIVING DEAD: CAMPAIGN TRAIL
CHRIS CHRISTIE ON WEED
Grand old party pooper
FOSSIL FOUL: AT JESUIT BC, YOU HAVE TO PROTEST FOR YOUR RIGHT TO PROTEST
Though Climate Justice BC was permitted to hold a rally calling for divestment in December, they were denied a subsequent request in February.
SECRET ASIAN MAN: HONESTY
MASS HAS A NEW PARTY (AND NOT JUST THE ONE REPUBLICANS ARE THROWING RIGHT NOW)
I didn’t hang at Evan Falchuk’s campaign office on Tremont Street past midnight just for kicks this morning. Nor was I only there for the beer, much of which was being sipped and spilled in celebration.
