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SOLDIERS’ HOME CHARGES JUST TIP OF LONG-TERM CARE ICEBERG

Written by ZACK HUFFMAN Posted October 6, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“We began this investigation on behalf of the families who lost loved ones under tragic circumstances …”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Bennett Walsh and Dr. David Clinton, coronavirus, Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, Maura Healey

THE GLOBE AND WBUR WANT YOU TO PAY $10 TO HEAR CHARLIE BAKER TALK ABOUT HOW GREAT MASS IS ON GUNS

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted March 4, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS

"I was looking forward to sharing this event with my friends interested in confronting gun violence... but then I noticed the lack of representation for Black and Brown communities that are most disproportionately impacted by this crises and neglected in our policy responses."

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston Globe, Charlie Baker, CitySpace, Fire Sale, Gun Violence, guns, Maura Healey, wbur

UNRESPONSIVE: THE MASSACHUSETTS PUBLIC RECORDS LAW FAILS THREE OUT OF THREE TIMES

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted August 22, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Critical Mass, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

That’s what’s happening with all three agencies in this case, with each one putting their own unique spin on how to circumvent the rules.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Critical Mass, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: AG, attorney general, BINJ, Boston, Boston City Hall, BPD, Critical Mass, East Boston High School, ice, immigration, Marty Walsh, Mass State Police, Maura Healey, public records

BRIC OF ICE: FEEBLE STATE RECORDS LAW AIDS ICE IN MA

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted July 2, 2018 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

What’s less known is that here in Massachusetts, our feeble public records law is helping to bolster these efforts by obscuring the process through which local officials share information with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: AG, attorney general, BINJ, Boston, Boston City Hall, BPD, Critical Mass, East Boston High School, ice, immigration, Marty Walsh, Maura Healey, public records

TOWNIE: AIRLINES SUING, UMASS SCREWING

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted April 11, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Townie

TOWNIE: AIRLINES SUING, UMASS SCREWING

 

Corporate attack on workers rights and a corporate-style attack on UMB by UMA

 

If there’s one thing I think people should do every day, it’s read the business press. Because that’s where you see how the world runs. A world that naturally includes Massachusetts.

 

Airlines sue Mass over sick time law

Case in point, Airlines ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Townie Tagged With: airline, American Airlines, budget, Column, corporation, economy, higher education, Jason Pramas, JetBlue Airways, Massachusetts, Maura Healey, Mount Ida College, news, Politics, sick leave, Townie, UMass Amherst, UMASS-Boston, United Airlines, veterans, William Joiner Institute

EVERSOURCE SCREWS MASS CONSUMERS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted December 5, 2017 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

EVERSOURCE SCREWS MASS CONSUMERS

 

With a little help from its friends, the “regulators” at the Department of Public Utilities

It is perhaps understandable that one of the most important Massachusetts news stories of the year was buried in the avalanche of reports coming out of Washington last week. But Eversource Energy, a large investor-owned utility serving much of Connecticut, New ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: AG, Apparent Horizon, attorney general, Avangrid, Boston, choice, Column, corporation, Department of Public Utilities, economy, electricity, energy, Eversource, hike, investor-owned, Jason Pramas, MAMEC, Massachusetts, Maura Healey, muni, municipal, news, Politics, power, rate, regulation, regulatory capture, utilities, utility

THE UGLY TRUTH ABOUT PUBLIC RECORDS ACCESS UNDER NEW MASS LAW

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted November 29, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Critical Mass, NEWS+OPINIONS

I’ve recently run into back-to-back critical failures that threaten the ability of requesters, be they media or private citizens, to even obtain records at all, let alone obtain them in a timely manner.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Critical Mass, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Department of Correction, FOIA, Mass DOC, Massachusetts, Maura Healey, Maya Shaffer, Police, public records access, public records law, Shirley, State House, transgender inmates, William Galvin

BROKEN RECORDS: MONKEY WRENCHING

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE Posted June 27, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

A rare win on the public records front in Mass

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Broken Records, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Maura Healey, PETA, public information, public records, transparency

EXPECT DELAYS: IN MASS, WE NOW HAVE TO WAIT MONTHS FOR PUBLIC INFORMATION REQUESTS

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted March 6, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

The fact is that the update makes it easy and legal for agencies to delay for months and leaves it entirely possible that any agency or municipality can lawfully delay providing records indefinitely.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACLU, Beacon Hill, Bill Galvin, Boston, Common Cause, Critical Mass, Massachusetts, Maura Healey, Maya Shaffer, public information, public records

A QUESTION OF STRATEGY

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted January 24, 2017 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Will Women’s March leaders help build a democracy movement or just put the Dems back in power?

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston, Democrats, Jason Pramas, Maura Healey, progressives, Women's March, Women's March on Washington

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