As expected, the struggle continues in the recreational era
Politics
ON MAKERSPACES AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Making can be cool, but conscious making is cooler
For many of us living in and around Boston in recent years, it has become common to see lots of communications from makerspaces around holiday time. Which is totally understandable. Such creative centers produce neat things year-round, so it’s only natural ...
TOWNIE: CORPORATE TAX FABLES AND COMMUNITARIAN KIDDIE TABLES
Big local corps quiet about huge profits to come from Repub tax scheme… except GE
An interesting WBUR article, “Largest Mass. Companies ...
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 ...
TOWNIE: UMB DRUBBING, PAWSOX GRUBBING
University cuts and a (possible) corporate scam just in time for the holidays
UMass Boston admin lays off more staff, unions push back
The neoliberal war on public higher education continues unabated ...
SAFE SPACE SOCIALISM
STATE WIRE: MASS TAKES STEP TOWARD SINGLE PAYER
"Using that data, you can start to have the conversation of where are the cost drivers, where are the potential savings, and where can we actually streamline the whole conversation to get to guaranteed universal health care without the overhead of the insurance industry."
TOWNIE: TAX DELINQUENT, TAX GIVEAWAY
Crutchfield sues Mass over online taxes, unions protest Siemens
Online retailer tries to duck sales taxes
For a long time, the internet was like the Wild West for online sales. Companies sold products to consumers all over the US, and the feds and many states were slow to tax those transactions. You know, because “innovation ...
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS NOW OUR VERSION OF THE FRENCH NATIONAL FRONT
WHAT KIND OF REVOLUTION IS BERNIE SANDERS LAUNCHING?
Sanders’ revolution is certainly not the kind of armed insurrection that has been the dominant historical fact of the last two centuries, giving birth to nearly all countries in the world today.