From ballot questions to elections and over bureaucratic hurdles, we’ve trudged through many muddy trenches toward the endless fields of grass ahead.
Marty Walsh
AUTONOMOUS PROFITEERING: CORPORATE NETWORKS ENLIST BOSTON TO HELP THEM SELL SELF-DRIVING CARS … AND ELIMINATE JOBS
The city should pull out of this incipient arrangement.
LONG ISLAND, LONGER STRUGGLE
In the interest of reminding readers that the promise of Long Island is still a life or death issue, some cogent testimonies from Monday’s Boston Homeless Solidarity Committee speakout
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIE: AN UPDATE ON THE ETHICALLY BANKRUPT CAMPAIGN AGAINST LEGAL CANNABIS IN MASS
His mistakes go on, from claiming, “decriminalization destroys early intervention,” to failing to understand that court-ordered drug treatment for pot is an enormous waste of resources that could go to treating opiate addiction.
THE HIGH AND THE MARTY
Boston Mayor Walsh is a lousy anti-addiction spokesperson
WELFARE KINGS: BAKER MOVES TO MAKE CORPORATE GIVEAWAYS EVEN SWEETER
It’s the situation that arises when a giant corporation like GE wants extraordinary amounts of state money to site facilities in the Commonwealth.
GE BOSTON DEAL: THE MISSING MANUAL, PART 8
The terms of the essentially secret deal that led to this situation—brokered by high public officials and GE leadership with no public oversight whatsoever—are already being violated.
AN OPEN INVITATION FOR BAKER, WALSH, AND DELEO
Though the mayor’s behavior routinely reveals that he is blinded by a crude stubbornness on this issue, this past week all three of you exalted leaders stumbled face-first in the stupid pile with your Campaign for a Safe and Healthy Massachusetts.
LIMITED DEBATE: BOSTON CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS SOCIALISM AS CORPORATE MEDIA BLOCKS NEEDED DIALOGUE
Engage with socialist ideas directly than relying on the straw man version of them set up by the capitalist news media.
GE BOSTON DEAL: THE MISSING MANUAL, PART 6
General Electric brass, pols celebrate government giveaway while public opposition grows