Reflections on a new grassroots political movement in formation Another Cambridge arts institution is being pushed out of its longtime home by a greedy landlord. And once again, local artists are mobilizing to “discuss and organize for meaningful political action to support the arts” in that city—as the Facebook event page of Monday’s […]
CONSULTANTS TOLD STATE POLICE HOW TO AVOID TURMOIL. THE DEPARTMENT IGNORED THE ADVICE AND SPENT THE FOLLOWING DECADES SPIRALING TOWARD CORRUPTION.
From several dozen troopers facing criminal charges in an expansive payroll fiasco, to drunk-driving drill instructors and other one-offs, the follies continue.
TROUBLING TIMES
Massachusetts Would Benefit from the Work and Family Mobility Act We live in some troubling times in America. There is a flood of rhetoric pouring out from the current presidential administration that demonizes and castigates immigrants. This dangerous bombast, undeniably encouraged by Donald Trump and rooted in xenophobia, fans the flames of hate […]
MAINE EVENT: THE VAPE BAN IS ONLY THE LATEST REASON THAT IT’S WORTH TRAVELING OUT OF MASS FOR CANNABIS
“As I see this playing out, the culprit is likely to be illicit THC cartridges—the same cartridges that the DPH, however inadvertently, pushed people to use by letting big cannabis take over.”
BOSTON’S CLIMATE STRIKE: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Gov Baker has failed to lead on climate change, so it’s time for him to come face to face with the climate catastrophes around the state he is ignoring.
EVEN AS WOMEN’S SOCCER SURGES, GREATER BOSTON STRUGGLES TO MAKE UP FOR THE LOSS OF ITS PRO TEAM
“I have a 99.9% level of confidence that Boston will be home to a new professional women’s franchise again in the near future. It would be best if that could be somehow related to the [New England Revolution] in the ownership.”
COUNTERPOINT: PROGRESSIVES AGAINST PROGRESS
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
