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Opinion: It’s Time for Massachusetts to Get Real About Investing in Public Transportation

Written by CARLENE PAVLOS Posted July 19, 2022 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Politics, The T

Transit justice advocates in Worcester demand fair funding for RTAs. Credit: Andrea Freeman.

Inflation, economic instability, and the climate crisis affect all areas of the Commonwealth and require statewide solutions. One of the most effective solutions to address all three of these issues is one often missing from policymaker proposals: meaningful and equitable investments in public transportation.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Politics, The T Tagged With: budget, climate, equity, global warming, government, Massachusetts, MBTA, opinion, policy, Politics, public, Regional Transit Authorities, RTA, transit, transportation

COUNCILORS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS WEIGH IN ON DIGITAL DIVIDE

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted March 29, 2022 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

How immigrants face the imbalance in the world of technology

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Digital, equity, immigrants, technology

VACCINE EQUITY NOW! COALITION CALLS FOR TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted February 17, 2022 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

In creating vaccine equity plan, the Baker administration must listen to community voices

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Charlie Baker, equity, government, rollout, vaccine

MAYOR MICHELLE WU AND SENATOR ED MARKEY INVEST IN DIGITAL EQUITY

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted February 4, 2022 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

The leaders are dedicating $12 million to this cause

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Digital, equity, inclusion, library, Politics, school, technology

WHO IS EVERETT’S DIVERSITY COMMISSION ACCOUNTABLE TO? WHAT DOES IT DO?

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted October 5, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Community activists and political figures voice disillusionment with body that “has no teeth”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: diversity, equity, Everett, inclusion, Politics, racism

EDITORIAL: PERSONAE NON GRATAE

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted August 23, 2021 Filed Under: Editorial, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

WGBH studio complex, 1 Guest Street, Brighton/Boston. Entrance, seen from Market Street. Image from Wikimedia Commons, author unknown.

GBH needs to start inviting Dig and BINJ reporters to appear on its local news and public affairs shows

Filed Under: Editorial, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACCESS, Beat the Press, BIPOC, cancel, cancellation, Chris Faraone, criticism, Democracy, DigBoston, documentarian, documentary, editorial, Emily Rooney, equity, fairness, filmmaker, GBH, Greater Boston, independent press, Jason Pramas, John Loftus, Journalism, journalist, Ken Burns, media analysis, television, under the radar, WGBH

LONG ISLAND, LONGER HISTORY

Written by DYLAN J. HEARN Posted June 1, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Tribal organizers ask for recognition of past horrors in debate over bridge and recovery project

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, equity, Long Island, mayor, native american

WOKE IN PROGRESS

Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Posted August 20, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts, Visual Arts

Jesse Draxler's Living with a Ghost

Taking Action for Black Lives in Boston’s Arts Community

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts, Visual Arts Tagged With: arts, Black Lives Matter, Boston, Boston Arts for Black Lives, Boston Center for the Arts, entertainment, equity, Massachusetts

NEW YEAR’S REVOLUTION: OUTRAGE, FRUSTRATION SHUT DOWN CANNABIS CONTROL COMMISSION

Written by Posted January 15, 2020 Filed Under: News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Talking Joints Memo

"There needs to be a clear-cut process. The process for a white man and a black veteran woman needs to be equal.”

Filed Under: News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Talking Joints Memo Tagged With: Beacon Hill, cannabis, Cannabis Control Commission, CCC, equity, Protest, Worcester

THE INCREDIBLE, INEQUITABLE MBTA

Written by OLIVIA DENG Posted March 1, 2018 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

To get from one place to another in Boston, many commuters use the public transit system for commuter rail, subway, and bus route services. However, the tracks and lanes that are supposed to connect residents from their homes to their jobs and other destinations can have the opposite effect, stranding us and pushing people farther away from the city and essential services.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACE, Boston, Cambridge, condembta, equity, Lee Matsueda, MBTA, MDOT, orange line, red line, SOMERVILLE, T, TOD, transit, transit-oriented development, transportation

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