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BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE: THE MASS HOST COMMUNITY AGREEMENT FIASCO REARS ITS UGLY HEAD AGAIN

Written by DAVID RABINOVITZ Posted January 28, 2020 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Empty storefronts don’t employ staff; there’s no one to purchase coffee, gas, lunch, or snacks from local merchants.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: alking Joints Memo Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Beantown Greentown, Between the Rows, cannabis, Cannabis Control Commission, CCC, Deep Roots, host community agreement, municipal, RiverRun Gardens, towns, zoning

HOW THE MAD DASH FOR HOST COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS IS A WINDFALL FOR LANDLORDS (AT THE EXPENSE OF LOCAL ECONOMIC PROGRESS)

Written by DAVID RABINOVITZ Posted January 13, 2020 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Talking Joints Memo

Marijuana applicants are often desperate to lock up space, willing to bid up rates well over market value in order to price out a rival.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Talking Joints Memo Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Beantown Greentown, Between the Rows, cannabis, Cannabis Control Commission, CCC, Deep Roots, host community agreement, municipal, RiverRun Gardens, towns, zoning

READER INPUT: WHAT’S RIGHT WITH BOSTON?

Written by DIG STAFF Posted January 1, 2020 Filed Under: FEATURES, LIFESTYLE, Non-fiction

We requested, you suggested: “Our passion and stubborn love for our city makes us great”

Filed Under: FEATURES, LIFESTYLE, Non-fiction Tagged With: arts, Boston, Cambridge, city, entertainment, love, municipal, positives, What's Right With Boston, WRWB

SOME THOUGHTS ON TRANSPORTATION POLICY

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted August 16, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Image courtesy of pxshare.com. Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain.

 

Transportation is a subject I address frequently in my columns. But, as is often the case in journalism, it’s usually necessary to write about it piecemeal given various editorial constraints. So I might cover flooding ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: accident, Alphabet, Apparent Horizon, bicycle, bike, Bird Rides, boat, bus, car, Climate Change, Column, development, ecology, electric, Environment, global warming, golf cart, Google, Health, Housing, Jason Pramas, Jump Bikes, Lime, Lyft, monorail, motorcycle, municipal, news, planning, policy, Politics, prevention, public, robot, safety, scooter, Spin, train, transportation, Uber, urban, vehicle sharing

FLIPPING US THE BIRD: SCOOTER-SHARING COMPANY LITTERS CAMBERVILLE WITH DANGEROUS VEHICLES NO ONE ASKED FOR

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 25, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Bird’s model looks to be entirely profit-driven and completely mean-spirited. No matter how much CEO Travis VanderZanden tries to equate the unasked-for and unwanted service to “freedom.”

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: accident, Alphabet, Apparent Horizon, bicycle, bike, Bird Rides, Blue Bikes, Column, Google, Health, Jason Pramas, Jump Bikes, LimeBike, Lyft, municipal, news, Politics, prevention, privatization, public, safety, scam, scooter, Spin, transportation, Uber, vehicle sharing

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

REAL RIDESHARING

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 7, 2017 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Evolving the way the world moves … beyond Uber (and Lyft)

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: affordable, Apparent Horizon, Boston, Fasten, government, Jason Pramas, labor, living wage, Lyft, Mass, Massachusetts, MBTA, municipal, public, ridesharing, transit, transportation, Uber, work, working class

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