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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

A 700-WORD ANALYSIS OF THE COP 26 AGREEMENT

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 14, 2021 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Read on ...

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: 2021 Climate Change Conference, agreement, Apparent Horizon, carbon, china, Climate Change, coal, Column, COP 25, corporations, Democracy, Doom, EU, European Union, Failure, france, gas, Germany, global warming, India!, Italy, Jason Pramas, oil, Saudi Arabia, UK, UN, United Kingdom, united nations, United States, US

POOR PROTEST COVERAGE SHOWS NEED FOR MASS JOURNALISM COMMISSION

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted October 4, 2021 Filed Under: Analysis, Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Image courtesy of Extinction Rebellion Boston

Environmental zap action in front of Gov. Baker’s Swampscott home gets lots of attention with little useful context due to shrinking local press corps

Filed Under: Analysis, Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, analysis, Apparent Horizon, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Climate Change, Column, communication, criticism, Democracy, Extinction Rebellion, global warming, Jason Pramas, Journalism, journalism commission, legislation, legislature, Massachusetts, media, news, press, Protest, reform, Rep. Lori Ehrlich, reporting, Sen. Brendan Crighton, Sunrise Movement, Swampscott, transparency, website

A BRIEF MEDITATION ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted September 20, 2021 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Image for Occupy meditation. Photo by Jason Pramas. Copyright 2021 Jason Pramas.

And the possibility of its return

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: 1%, 99%, anarchism, Andrei Tarkovsky, anniversary, Apparent Horizon, Arab Spring, Black Lives Matter, Boston, capitalism, Column, corporation, Democracy, Film, future, global warming, history, HOPE, international, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, Meditation, novel, Occupy, Occupy Boston, Open Media Boston, Politics, Protest, rebellion, reflection, Revolt, socialism, Solaris, Stanisław Lem, usa, worker, working class, working people

ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH, CASSANDRA

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 26, 2021 Filed Under: COLUMNS, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Still from the film Homo Sapiens (2016). Image courtesy of Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH.

Human unwillingness to surmount the pandemic means it’s unlikely we will stop global warming

Filed Under: COLUMNS, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: America, Apparent Horizon, carbon emissions, civilization, Climate Change, Column, coronavirus, COVID, Delta, Democracy, Environment, fate, Film, global warming, Health, heat dome, Homo Sapiens, humanity, International Energy Agency, Jason Pramas, mask, Massachusetts, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, pandemic, Politics, usa, vaccine

EDITORIAL: DIGBOSTON SEEKS CLIMATE IDEAS FOR MAYOR KIM JANEY

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted April 5, 2021 Filed Under: Editorial, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Environmental organizations and individual activists invited to submit opinion articles for publication

Filed Under: Editorial, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: Boston, climate, Climate Change, Democracy, DigBoston, ecology, editorial, Environment, global warming, idea, Jason Pramas, Journalism, Massachusetts, Mayor Kim Janey, policy, Politics, Vision

BLATHER REPORT: GLOBE COVERAGE OF JANUARY ‘WARM PATCH’ INAPPROPRIATELY OPTIMISTIC

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted February 6, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

[T]here was no mention of global warming or climate change anywhere in the article. An unconscionable omission by the Globe at the start of a new geological age experts are now calling the Anthropocene... whether it was the fault of the reporters or their editors.

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston Globe, Climate Change, Column, criticism, Democracy, global warming, Jason Pramas, Journalism, news, weather

FATE OF THE CITY

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted January 14, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

What Mayor Walsh’s annual address didn’t say about global warming

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACEEE, Apparent Horizon, Boston, Climate Change, Climate Ready Boston, Column, criticism, Democracy, economics, energy efficiency, Eversource, global warming, GoBoston 2030, IPCC, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, mayor Marty Walsh, National Grid, Politics, speech, State of the City, UN

A CHARLIE HORSE FROM BAKER DOWN IN WEYMOUTH

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted December 3, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

It’s time to call the governor out for being a shameless business-assist monkey right now, because later’s always too damn late.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #CoveringClimateNow, Alternatives for Community and Environment, Bill McKibben, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, climate crisis, climate crisis issue, Columbia Journalism Review, compressor station, Covering Climate Now, Democracy Denied, energy, Environment, environmental reporting, Falter, Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station, fracking, FRRACS, gas, global warming, Green New Deal, Jason Pramas, Koch brothers, Logan Airport, Lyft, Mass Department of Public Utilities, natural gas, pollution, Red-Green Revolution, Special Climate Crisis Issue, spectra, The Nation, Uber, Victor Wallis, Weymouth, Weymouth Compressor Station

SPECIAL FEATURE: THE MOST DANGEROUS SQUARE MILE

Written by SUREN MOODLIAR Posted September 18, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

The centuries-long relationship with Boston that made Chelsea a frontline community for environmental justice ...

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: #CoveringClimateNow, Alternatives for Community and Environment, Bill McKibben, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, chelsea, climate crisis, climate crisis issue, Columbia Journalism Review, compressor station, Covering Climate Now, Democracy Denied, Encore Casino, energy, Environment, environmental reporting, Everett, Falter, Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station, fracking, FRRACS, gas, global warming, Green New Deal, Jason Pramas, Koch brothers, Langone Park, LNG, LNG Plant, Logan Airport, Lyft, Mass Department of Public Utilities, Most Dangerous Square Mile, natural gas, pollution, Red-Green Revolution, Revere, Special Climate Crisis Issue, spectra, The Nation, Uber, Victor Wallis, Weymouth, Weymouth Compressor Station

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