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THE FALL OF THE GE BOSTON DEAL, PART II

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

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Attorney General Maura Healey, Boston, Boston Globe, capitalism, Column, corporation, corruption, Democratic Socialists of America, DigBoston, DSA, economy, End Corporate Welfare Act, ethics, GE, General Electric, Governor Charlie Baker, Great Recession, independent commission, investigation, Jason Pramas, Journalism, Julia Salazar, labor, malfeasance, Massachusetts, mayor Marty Walsh, municipal bond, neoliberalism, Politics, scandal, Shaun Scott, subprime mortgage, tax, taxation

THE FALL OF THE GE BOSTON DEAL, PART I

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted February 28, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

The official narrative and the real story

 

Readers might feel that this should be a time for me to take a victory lap. The GE Boston deal that I criticized from the moment it was made public in January 2016 ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Boston Globe, capitalism, Column, corporation, corruption, DigBoston, economy, ethics, GE, General Electric, Governor Charlie Baker, Great Recession, Jason Pramas, Journalism, labor, malfeasance, Massachusetts, mayor Marty Walsh, municipal bond, neoliberalism, Politics, scandal, subprime mortgage, tax, taxation, Vertex

JOB BLOWS: A MAN, A MISSION, A MODERN MASSACHUSETTS UNEMPLOYMENT ODYSSEY

Written by D-TENSION Posted February 23, 2016 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Clearly, I thought, the state’s joke of an unemployment system has been covered and gutted. But it hasn’t been gutted enough.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: D-Tension, Department of Unemployment Assistance, DUA, DUA advice, Governor Charlie Baker, jobs, Lowell, Massachusetts, REA Review, RMV, unemployment

BROKEN RECORDS: MASS PUBLIC RECORDS LAWS MAY BE ABOUT TO GET MUCH, MUCH WORSE

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE Posted November 24, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm

The bill still needs to go before the Senate, which will likely change it yet again, so there’s still hope that it will be fixed. But after seeing how the bill was devastated by the House, the future is unpredictable.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm Tagged With: 2024 Olympics, attorney general, Beacon Hill, Boston, Boston Globe, Broken Records, Commonwealth, FOIA, Geoffrey Beckwith, Governor Charlie Baker, House of Representatives, Jamie Eldridge, legislature, Massachusetts, media, Michael Morisy, MMA, MuckRock, police brutality, public records, public records law, Secretary of State, Todd Wallack

WALL JOB: THE PALM RESTAURANT IS LOOKING FOR A NEW RESIDENT ARTIST

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted September 17, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Those chosen will then compete in a draw-off at the Palm downtown on a date TBD, with the winner landing the resident artist gig...to handle any of the 6-12 faces per month the Palm will be assigning at $65/face. Do the math.

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: art jobs, beetle bailey, caricatures, Contest, family circus, Governor Charlie Baker, Governor Deval Patrick, local arts, mayor Marty Walsh, Mayor tom Menino, power lunch, steakhouse, the palm restaurant

APPARENT HORIZON: LABOR BLUES

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted September 10, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

It has been decades since the Democratic Party has been reliably pro-labor—which means that neither major party genuinely supports American workers in this era.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACLU, AFL-CIO, Barack Obama, Boston, Carmen's Union, Democrats, Governor Charlie Baker, labor, labor day, Protest, Republicans, Steve Tolman

PRAYER FOR THE COMMON WEALTH

Written by DIG STAFF Posted March 11, 2015 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

A wish list for Governor Baker ...

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: #mapoli #bospoli, ACLU, AIDS Action, Boston Homeless Solidarity Committee, Boston Youth Wrestling, BPS, Digital 4th, Governor Charlie Baker, IOC, LGBT Aging Project, Mass. Legal Assistance Corp., MassCreative, No Boston Olympics, PHENOM, Press Pass TV, Project Place, Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts, Sidney Borum Jr. Health Center, USOC

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