Locals have until Oct 19 to say ‘No Public Bribes to Corporate Scofflaws’
Fresh off of throwing tens of millions of dollars at General Electric, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Massachusetts Gov. Charlie ...
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Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS
Fresh off of throwing tens of millions of dollars at General Electric, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Massachusetts Gov. Charlie ... read more
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS
After all the prattle by fawning journalists about the days of wine and roses to come, it turns out that the various moves GE CEO Jeff Immelt made to reinvent the conglomerate as an "innovation" company came at the expense of a significant drop in profits.
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS
Only multiparty democracy will ensure that left policies are enacted in Mass
Written by SARAH BETANCOURT Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
A closer look at Jackson’s campaign launch and potential platform
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS
Want to fight for social justice, but not sure where to plug in?
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS
It’s the situation that arises when a giant corporation like GE wants extraordinary amounts of state money to site facilities in the Commonwealth.
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS
The terms of the essentially secret deal that led to this situation—brokered by high public officials and GE leadership with no public oversight whatsoever—are already being violated.
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS
General Electric tries to cheap out on cleaning up its PCB apocalypse on the Housatonic River
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS
The general public may be aware that 39,000 unionized Verizon workers (out of a total of 178,000) have been out on strike for a few days—including many here in Boston. But the vast majority of onlookers don’t understand the stakes.
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What marks each of those dark episodes is a failure to fathom where an outlet’s vision leads, to carry rhetoric to its logical conclusion. This satirical interpolation attempts to do just that, to envision what Boston looks like with the Globe spinning rightward.