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LETTER: ARLINGTON DENTS DEMOCRACY BY DELAYING ELECTION WITHOUT PLAN

Written by JORDAN WEINSTEIN Posted April 5, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, Letters, NEWS+OPINIONS

Arlington Town Hall. Photo by Devin Ford.

Arlington Select Board meeting made a mockery of what it means to have an open, transparent and democratic Town government

Filed Under: COVID, Letters, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Arlington MA, coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy, DigBoston, editor, government, letter, pandemic, town meeting

LETTER FROM STATE, CITY OFFICIALS PUSHES BAKER FOR MORE AGGRESSIVE ACTION ON COVID-19 CRISIS

Written by REP. MIKE CONNOLLY Posted April 3, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, Letters, NEWS+OPINIONS

Gov. Charlie Baker at coronavirus press conference

36 signatories so far

Filed Under: COVID, Letters, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: action, coronavirus, COVID-19, demand, Gov Charlie Baker, government, letter, letter to the editor, Massachusetts, Rep. Mike Connolly, slider

“STAY HOME AND HAVE THE BABY”

Written by JENNY BROWN Posted March 29, 2020 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS

Photo by Pete Self

Still, pandemic-safe provision of pill abortions is hampered all over the country by the FDA’s REMS requirement. Without it, you could call a doctor or clinic, they could write a prescription and call it into your pharmacy, and then you could get the pills from there or even have them mailed to you.

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: abortion, Column, coronavirus, COVID-19, feminism, feminist, government, Health, Jenny Brown. human rights, Medicare, morning after pill, National Women's Liberation, Social Security, Women

HOUSING. SURELY WE CAN DO BETTER.

Written by SUREN MOODLIAR Posted October 17, 2019 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

 

As someone who has lived in the Boston area for the past two decades and often searched for affordable housing, the news that the Boston Housing Authority is “teaming up” with private-sector developers to maintain and upgrade its housing stock left me with ...  read more

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: Boston, government, Green New Deal, Housing, Massachusetts, opinion, public housing, social housing, Suren Moodliar

MORE DEMOCRACY NEEDED TO SURVIVE GLOBAL WARMING

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted May 15, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Apparent Horizon, biodiversity, Boston City Council, Climate Change, Column, Democracy, Environment, extinction, global warming, government, Green New Deal, Green Party, ISPBES, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts state legislature, michelle wu, MIT Technology Review, Paolo Bacigalupi, report, socialism, UN

MORE ACTIVISM NEEDED IN STATE AND LOCAL POLITICS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted May 8, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, advocacy, Apparent Horizon, Boston, Campaign, Column, Democracy, Elections, federal, government, Jason Pramas, legislature, local, Massachusetts, national, policy, Politics, presidential, state, voting

PUBLIC BAD. PRIVATE GOOD? BOSTON HERALD’S ATTACK ON MASSHOUSING HIGHLIGHTS DOUBLE STANDARD IN AMERICAN JOURNALISM

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted February 6, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

Over the last several days, the Boston Herald has had its knives out in no less than three articles and two editorials against MassHousing—an independent, quasi-public agency created in 1966 and charged with providing financing for affordable housing in Massachusetts.

 

 ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston Herald, Braintree, business expense, capitalism, Column, Digital First Media, economy, government, hotel, Jason Pramas, Journalism, labor, leased car, Massachusetts, neoliberal, news, newspaper, per diem, Politics, public, racism, travel

FAIR HOUSING WHACKED: TUFTS STUDENTS FIGHT ADMIN PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH “CLASSIST” DORM SYSTEM

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted December 5, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

More than 200 Tufts University students, faculty, and allies from surrounding communities held a march and demonstration last week to protest a new campus housing policy, according to the  ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Column, development, dorm, gentrification, government, higher education, Housing, Jason Pramas, news, Politics, pricing, private, Protest, public, Real Estate, student, tufts

‘WALK THE TALK’

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted June 13, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Climate protest outside June 8 US Conference of Mayors meeting in Boston. Photo courtesy Mass Sierra Club.

 

Mayor Walsh needs to act faster to mitigate regional global warming threats

 

Environmental groups protested Mayor Marty Walsh last week during the International Mayors ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: 350Mass, Activism, Apparent Horizon, Boston, Boston Clean Energy Coalition, carbon dioxide, Climate Change, CO2, coal, Column, Community Choice Energy, crisis, disaster, economy, emissions, energy, Environment, flooding, fossil fuel, future, gas, global warming, government, heat wave, Jason Pramas, Mass Sierra Club, Massachusetts, mayor Marty Walsh, news, oil, planning, Politics, Real Estate, sea level rise

TOWNIE: CITY ON A HILL

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted May 23, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Townie

 

Global warming will flood Boston. Why not move the state capital to Worcester?

 

Many small American cities have boosterish metro research organizations that look like a cross between a public policy outfit and a chamber of commerce, and the Bay State’s second biggest urban area is no exception. The Worcester Regional ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Townie Tagged With: Activism, agency, Boston, Climate Change, Column, crisis, disaster, economy, Environment, flooding, future, global warming, government, heat wave, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, news, office, planning, Politics, Real Estate, sea level rise, state, Townie, Worcester

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