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DIG 23.02 – 1/28/21

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WHAT THANKSGIVING AND THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC SHARE

Written by JOSEPH NEVINS - SUREN MOODLIAR - ELENI MACRAKIS Posted November 24, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Politics

Massasoit statue, Plymouth, MA. Photo courtesy of the authors.

[B]oth the holiday’s development and epidemiological reasons for its present-day decline are rooted in a settler colonial project centered on the pursuit of wealth and ecological exploitation

Filed Under: COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Politics Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, economy, Health, history, Massachusetts, Massasoit, National Day of Mourning, opinion, Plymouth, Politics, public health, thanksgiving, Wampanoag

THANKS, SOCIOPATHS!

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 16, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

More Mass residents have died from COVID-19 than all the Mass soldiers killed in WWII, but let’s “get back to normal,” right?

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Bob DeLeo, Charlie Baker, Column, coronavirus, COVID-19, criticism, Democracy, Health, Jason Pramas, mask, Massachusetts, MBTA, policy, Politics, public health, social distancing, tax, taxation, transportation, usa

MASKHOLES: HOW NOT TO COVER YOUR FACE IN A PANDEMIC

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted May 6, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Photos

Jason Pramas with mask not covering nose and the word WRONG. Photo by Jason Pramas.

A Visual Guide with Photos (for the Thickheaded or Sociopathic)

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Photos Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston, Column, coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy, Health, how-not-to, how-to, humor, Jason Pramas, mask, Massachusetts, photo essay, public health, slider, usa

RECLOSE AMERICA: DON’T FOLLOW FASCISTS IN THE SERVICE OF WALL ST TO YOUR GRAVES

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted April 29, 2020 Filed Under: Analysis, Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS

image with President Trump surrounded by quotes about right-wing protests to end coronavirus stay at home orders

Do back politicians calling for immediate national living wage checks and Medicare for All

Filed Under: Analysis, Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: America, Apparent Horizon, Bernie Sanders, Column, coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy, DigBoston, fascist, hard right, Health, Jason Pramas, Koch, labor, Medicare for All, middle class, nazi, news analysis, pandemic, Paycheck Security Act, Protest, public health, Reopen America, right wing, slider, stay at home, United States, Wall St, white supremacist, worker, working class

LAWMAKERS AND ADVOCATES PUSH FOR MORE COVID-19 DATA FROM PRISONS

Written by SARAH BETANCOURT Posted April 23, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS

"It's always helpful to have transparency in reporting data … Especially when we're dealing with people's health and safety, and when people are dying."

Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Department of Correction, doc, Health, Massachusetts, news, prison, prisoner, public health, slider, Supreme Judicial Court

CAMBRIDGE PLAN TO WAREHOUSE HOMELESS COULD SPARK COVID OUTBREAK

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted April 10, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS

A Dorm on Harvard Yard. Photo by greger.ravik.

City Council, Gov. Baker have the power to force universities—Harvard, MIT, and Lesley—and hotels to provide better alternatives

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston, Cambridge, Cambridge MA, Column, coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy, epidemic, Harvard University, Health, Homeless, Housing, Jason Pramas, Lesley University, Massachusetts, MIT, policy, Politics, public health, Shelter, slider, suffolk university

EDITORIAL: COVER YOUR FACES, MASSHOLES!

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted April 5, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS

People with and without masks at Logan Airport

For a smart state, too many Mass residents are stupid when it comes to public health

Filed Under: COVID, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: children, coronavirus, cover your face, COVID-19, DigBoston, editorial, Health, Jason Pramas, masks, Massachusetts, public health, slider

MASSACHUSETTS WAS NOT READY FOR THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted April 3, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS

Bunker Hill Monument

But we can be ready for the next one

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston, Column, coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy, Gov Charlie Baker, Health, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, pandemic, policy, Politics, public health, slider

MASS: EXPAND PAID SICK TIME & START MEDICAL LEAVE NOW

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted March 10, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

President Trump tours viral pathogenesis lab at National Institutes of Health. Photo by Shealah Craighead.

More state support needed to help stem the coronavirus tide

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston, Column, coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy, Health, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, paid family and medical leave, pandemic, policy, Politics, public health, quarantine, sick time

REMEMBER THEIR NAMES: STUDENT ART CHALLENGES HARVARD TO JOIN OTHER MAJOR INSTITUTIONS IN SACKING MONSTERS BEHIND OXYCONTIN

Written by BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM Posted December 11, 2019 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

As Tufts was announcing last week that it plans to “remove [the] Sackler name from [its] medical school facilities and programs," on Dec 6, one city over in Cambridge, Harvard students joined community members in unveiling a pointed art installation on the topic.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Cambridge, deaths, fight, FIGHT Opiates, Guggenheim, harvard, opiates, opioids, public health, Sackler, Sackler family, tufts, VT Digger

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