For workers everywhere, President Donald Trump’s budget for the Department of Labor “will mean more illness, injury and death on the job,” according to Jodi Conti of the National Employment Law Project.
Massachusetts
WHEN SLOGANS REPLACE BIRTHRIGHTS
How corporate ed reform threatens democracy
STRANGE BUDFELLOWS: A CANNABIS LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR ALL LEVELS, WITH HIGH STAKES
JACKSON TESTIFIES ON CANNABIS BILLS AT STATE HOUSE
“Not only should [convicted drug offenders] have an opportunity to work in this industry, they should have the opportunity to own [businesses].”
A SERGEANT’S NEW MISSION: HELPING VETERANS GET OFF OPIATES WITH CANNABIS
"We are hoping to have as many strains as people want, with the lowest cost to our members, and will offer greater discounts for vets who want to volunteer."
DEAR READER: WE NEED YOU TO HELP US DEFLATE THE CANNABIS TABOO BUBBLE
We get a lot of reader mail at DigBoston, and some of our recent letters and emails have noted that our writers (myself included) can sometimes get juvenile in our vitriolic assaults on “prohibitionists.”
GREENER GARDENS: DR. KAREN MUNKACY ON VAPE PENS AND CANNABIS BIOSECURITY
We have a very strong focus on education. A lot of people have been buying their medicine in Ziploc bags on the street, and there are a lot of different ways to adjust this.
LAB RATS AND REPARATIONS
Prosecutors are dismissing nearly 24,000 tainted drug convictions, but do their actions go far enough?
A DISINVESTMENT STORY: SOME CRITICAL BACKGROUND ON UMASS BOSTON WOES
Who tells Harvard or Bowdoin to focus on workforce development?
SPECIAL FEATURE: GEORGE STRAIGHT
The first in a series profiling aging lifers seeking commutations from Mass prisons