Why is Cambridge afraid of affordable housing? When Cambridge city staff decided to use the city’s zoning code to incentivize the creation of affordable housing, they faced a choice. They could, like generations of planners before them, trace old zoning and neighborhood boundaries, but those boundaries are the echoes of past racism and […]
POINT: YES TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING; NO TO THE CITYWIDE OVERLAY
Cambridge is embroiled in a heated debate over the 100% Affordable Housing Overlay (AHO)—a city-wide up-zoning plan to allow large housing developments citywide, four stories (45’) tall in all residential areas and seven stories (80’) tall on major corridors. Although absent from Cambridge’s 2019 Envision new city planning report, the AHO is being […]
THERE’S MUCH MORE TO THE MASS STATE POLICE SCANDAL THAN IS BEING REPORTED
After SPAM received the full payment, its then-treasurer told investigators that Pullman demanded a check for $250,000 for Lynch Associates, pounding the table and yelling “Stop breaking my f**cking balls and give me the check!” when the treasurer questioned him.
SPECIAL FEATURE: SEX, DRUGS, AND FENTANYL
Among the nightmares of an unprecedented epidemic, sex work gets more dangerous for opioid addicts
PUBLIC INFORMATION REQUESTS REVEAL ARLINGTON’S BEHIND-THE-SCENES RESPONSE TO POLICE CONTROVERSY
Like in any donnybrook, there are countless angles and competing arguments in play. The documents that we obtained provide a much deeper insight into why certain decisions were made regarding developments including Pedrini’s employment and the town’s use of the restorative justice (RJ) process, which is traditionally designed as “a system that focuses on the rehabilitation of offenders through reconciliation with victims and the larger community.”
EDITORIAL: DIGBOSTON JOINS MOVEMENT TO SLOW GLOBAL WARMING
Calls for regional consortium of news outlets to improve and expand climate change coverage Last month, during the fearsome heat wave that saw Boston temperatures soar to 98 degrees Fahrenheit for two days in a row, 400 chickens died in New Hampshire. According to the Boston Globe, they succumbed to “heatstroke at […]
DISPATCH FROM THE MARCH AGAINST CAGES
Prison reformers protest Baker and Walsh-endorsed corrections conference Activists from 19 grassroots organizations marched through downtown Boston Sunday afternoon to protest the American Correctional Association (ACA), which was holding its annual conference at the Hynes Convention Center. The ACA is one of the largest accreditation agencies in the United States. It ensures […]
SPLIT FAMILY: WITH A BORDER BETWEEN A HUSBAND AND A WIFE, A FAMILY CONSIDERS MOVING BACK TO MEXICO
“Me and my wife were both applying for our residency together,” Ruben says. “But her dad got sick. She went back to Mexico and took care of some of his business after he died. I got my residency in 2015. She got a 10-year ban from the United States when she left seven years ago.”
TALKING JOINTS MEMO: FAD THE INHALER
As for the sensation, it really is a microscopic mist, and you can feel it seeping into all of that impressionable real estate in the back of your throat and under your tongue.
SPECIAL FEATURE: UNBEARABLE PRESSURE
For members of the Asian LGBTQ community, Boston can be solid ground for personal discovery and advocacy. Still, some stories remain untold.
