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FAREWELL CLUB BOHEMIA: ICONIC VENUE HOSTS FINAL SHOW AFTER 25 YEARS
“It was a place for unknown bands to play without having to worry about filling the space. It was a place to play that was fun. You could have a fundraiser there and raise money, you could try out new material.”
SOME THOUGHTS ON TRANSPORTATION POLICY
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 ...
GREENFIELD BLUES: HOMELESSNESS IS NOT JUST A BIG-CITY PROBLEM IN MASS
We don’t get much news about Western Mass in Boston. And since the population is relatively small in the largely rural western counties of the Commonwealth, it can be easy to miss significant stories. Because the scale of noteworthy happenings is naturally smaller ...
POPULAR NOT POPULIST: GOV BAKER CONTINUES TO POLL WELL WITH PEOPLE HE’S SCREWING
FLIPPING US THE BIRD: SCOOTER-SHARING COMPANY LITTERS CAMBERVILLE WITH DANGEROUS VEHICLES NO ONE ASKED FOR
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.”
STOP BAKER’S ‘MORE SCHOOL COPS AND SURVEILLANCE’ PLAN
‘DON’T MOURN, ORGANIZE!’
Why Janus might actually be good for the American labor movement
The Supreme Court issued a decision last week that will have profound consequences for American working people. In Janus v. AFSCME ...
GRAND SCHEME
Mass legislature helps, harms workers in “deal” with labor and business lobbies
No sooner did the Supreme Judicial Court shoot down the “millionaires’ tax” referendum question last week than the Mass ...