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Why This Pit Kid Is Not Going to ‘Pit-A-Palooza’

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted June 23, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

I just can’t attend an event run by people that have helped kill everything that made Cambridge special

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: analysis, Apparent Horizon, Art, Cambridge, City of Cambridge, Column, criticism, culture, Democracy, Denise Jillson, East Cambridge Courthouse, Harvard Square Business Association, Homeless, Housing, Jason Pramas, Marc McGovern, Massachusetts, pit kid, Pit-A-Palooza, rent control, unhoused, Youth

TENT ENCAMPMENTS COME DOWN AT MASS AND CASS

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted January 12, 2022 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Last month, the City set today as the deadline for the  removal of the tents and the directing of inhabitants to low threshold, supportive housing

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Homeless, Mass and Cass, mayor, michelle wu

PERMANENT HOUSING. FOR NOW.

Written by MARK EMMONS Posted May 18, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

The pandemic spurred the city to find new housing for people experiencing homelessness. Will these programs continue?

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Charles River Inn, Homeless, Housing, pandemic

A NEW PLACE FOR MORE PEOPLE TO CALL HOME IN TOUGH TIMES

Written by MARK EMMONS Posted March 16, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Brockton hotel being acquired by Father Bill’s and MainSpring.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Brockton House, Homeless, Shelter

DO WHATEVER YOU CAN TO HELP YOUR NEIGHBORS IN THIS TIME OF GREAT CRISIS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted December 17, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Image CC-BY Salva Barbera 2010

A holiday message

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, assist, Boston, Christmas, Column, Democracy, donation, friend, Give, global, Hanukkah, help, holiday, holidays, Homeless, hunger, international, Jason Pramas, Kwanzaa, love donate, Massachusetts, neighbor, Ōmisoka, poverty, usa, volunteer, world

HARVARD AND MIT MUST HELP THEIR WORKERS AND AREA HOMELESS NOW

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted April 22, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS

Institutions with more wealth than many nations have no excuse for inaction during a pandemic

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Cambridge, Column, contractor, coronavirus, COVID-19, criticism, Democracy, economy, employee, endowment, Harvard University, higher education, Homeless, Jason Pramas, L. Rafael Reif, labor, Larry Bacow, layoff, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, news analysis, pandemic, power, public, Shelter, slider, student, wealth, worker

CAMBRIDGE TEMPORARY HOMELESS SHELTER OPENS DAY LATE AFTER TESTING MANDATE

Written by SUE REINERT Posted April 20, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS

People in hazmat suits cross Friday to a temporary homeless shelter set up by the city at the War Memorial Recreation Center in Mid-Cambridge.

A temporary homeless shelter opened Saturday night at the War Memorial Recreation Center in Mid-Cambridge—after two weeks before city councillors and a day late after a last-minute change requiring guests to test negative for COVID-19. Results from tests at the city’s warming center for the homeless Thursday did not arrive until Saturday afternoon.

Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Cambridge, Cambridge Day, coronavirus, COVID-19, Homeless, Massachusetts, news, Politics, Shelter, slider

SIGN “MIT HARVARD PETITION” DEMANDING BETTER SOLUTIONS FOR CAMBRIDGE HOMELESS DURING PANDEMIC

Written by QUINTON ZONDERVAN Posted April 13, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS

Collage of John Harvard Statue with a mask

Editor's note: The following petition was drafted by Cambridge City Councilor Quinton Zondervan and is reprinted here in the public interest. Read "Cambridge Plan to Warehouse Homeless Could Spark COVID Outbreak" by DigBoston's Jason Pramas for more background.

Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Cambridge, coronavirus, COVID19, Democracy, Homeless, justice, Massachusetts, opinion, petition, slider

CAMBRIDGE PLAN TO WAREHOUSE HOMELESS COULD SPARK COVID OUTBREAK

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted April 10, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS

A Dorm on Harvard Yard. Photo by greger.ravik.

City Council, Gov. Baker have the power to force universities—Harvard, MIT, and Lesley—and hotels to provide better alternatives

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston, Cambridge, Cambridge MA, Column, coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy, epidemic, Harvard University, Health, Homeless, Housing, Jason Pramas, Lesley University, Massachusetts, MIT, policy, Politics, public health, Shelter, slider, suffolk university

NO FINISH LINE IN SIGHT: 21ST ANNUAL HOMELESSNESS MARATHON TO BROADCAST FROM CAMBRIDGE

Written by Posted July 16, 2019 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

“We said we’re going to do this the same way the British had to get their troops out of Dunkirk,” the radio host said. “It was an immediate need. They were going to die and homeless people are dying.”

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Cambridge, gentrification, HCWW, Health Care Without Walls, Homeless, homelessness, Housing, SOMERVILLE

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