
“We wrote our own tenant protection act, which has been filed. It would expand the voucher program to everyone who is over the age of 75. The state would guarantee, no matter what happens with rent, you’d be able to pay your rent and stay home.”
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Written by DIEGO MARCANO Filed Under: FEATURES
“We wrote our own tenant protection act, which has been filed. It would expand the voucher program to everyone who is over the age of 75. The state would guarantee, no matter what happens with rent, you’d be able to pay your rent and stay home.”
Written by MIKE CRAWFORD Filed Under: Talking Joints Memo
Noni Goldman got into the cannabis industry in 2016 with a 50,000-square-foot greenhouse. With a background in supply chain management and agriculture, she says it “seemed like a cool thing to look into,” but “coming from a conservative family, it was definitely ... read more
Written by MAYA SHAFFER Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
Now records we have received from Healey’s shed light on why her office may be avoiding the issue—her office is also guilty of the same kind of questionable social media management.
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: A+E, Comedy
He speaks in three-word messages: Build the wall, drain the swamp, lock her up. We have our own three words—feed the hungry. House the homeless. Heal the sick, healthcare is a human right. And welcome the stranger.
Written by IRENE MONROE Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS
The first debate, for me, didn’t demonstrate a compelling reason to replace Markey—to swap an older straight white male for a younger one.
Written by DAVID RABINOVITZ Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Talking Joints Memo
Over the last 6 months, raising capital in the cannabis market has been a lot like raising capital to buy condos during the depths of the recession.
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS
I want to revisit the extent to which you, DigBoston readers, can help us in the reporting and also the news dissemination process.
Written by PETER C. BERNARD Filed Under: COLUMNS, Talking Joints Memo, The Tokin' Truth
Retailers should not be allowed to be within 2,000 feet of a playground, daycare, school, place of worship, or statue of any historical figure.
Written by DAVID RABINOVITZ Filed Under: COLUMNS, LIFESTYLE, NEWS+OPINIONS, Talking Joints Memo
With its massive network, Cumberland Farms apparently wants to sell more alcoholic beverages and has successfully placed a question on the 2020 ballot that could lift the state’s cap on the number of liquor licenses that can be owned by a single retailer, and also forge a new class of beer and wine license for food stores
Written by DIG STAFF Filed Under: FEATURES, LIFESTYLE, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction
We were happy to receive several dozen responses—many of which echoed each other, one of which was a poem, and some of which hit on subjects that we don’t think or write about enough around here.