Bird’s model looks to be entirely profit-driven and completely mean-spirited. No matter how much CEO Travis VanderZanden tries to equate the unasked-for and unwanted service to “freedom.”
Jason Pramas
STOP BAKER’S ‘MORE SCHOOL COPS AND SURVEILLANCE’ PLAN
‘DON’T MOURN, ORGANIZE!’
Why Janus might actually be good for the American labor movement
The Supreme Court issued a decision last week that will have profound consequences for American working people. In Janus v. AFSCME ...
GRAND SCHEME
Mass legislature helps, harms workers in “deal” with labor and business lobbies
No sooner did the Supreme Judicial Court shoot down the “millionaires’ tax” referendum question last week than the Mass ...
CAPITALIST VETO
‘WALK THE TALK’
Mayor Walsh needs to act faster to mitigate regional global warming threats
Environmental groups protested Mayor Marty Walsh last week during the International Mayors ...
MEMORIAL DAY NOTES
TOWNIE: CITY ON A HILL
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 ...
EDITORIAL: MEDIUM WELL
Democracy requires public control of social media giants
In this edition of DigBoston, our Editor-in-Chief Chris Faraone has already written ...