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The Legendary Past And Uncertain Future Of The Harvard Square Theatre

Written by COHAVIT GIL Posted March 28, 2023 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Will the iconic venue ever return to its rock roots as has been rumored? 

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Art, arts, Cambridge, development, features, Film, harvard square, Housing, movies, property, Real Estate

BEWARE ASTROTURF GROUPS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted May 3, 2021 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Mass rideshare, delivery, and real estate industries gearing up propaganda campaigns to convince working people to vote against our own interests

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, astroturf, Boston, Column, corporation, Democracy, DoorDash, gig work, Housing, human rights, Instacart, Jason Pramas, labor, Lyft, Massachusetts, policy, Politics, propaganda, Real Estate, rent control, renter, Uber, worker

BETTER BOSTON ARTS: CALLIE CHAPMAN

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted September 3, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Better Boston Arts, COLUMNS, Interviews

Callie Chapman. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Working for structural changes in policy and zoning to support the arts in Cambridge

Filed Under: A+E, Better Boston Arts, COLUMNS, Interviews Tagged With: arts, Better Boston Arts, Callie Chapman, Cambridge, Column, coronavirus, COVID-19, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, Politics, Real Estate, Studio@550

IT’S TIME TO BRING BACK RENT CONTROL IN MASSACHUSETTS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted March 27, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: bill, Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, capitalism, Column, corruption, Democracy, economy, greed, Housing, Jason Pramas, labor, legislation, Massachusetts, neoliberal, Politics, poverty, Real Estate, referendum, rent control, Rep. Mike Connolly, socialism, SOMERVILLE, state government

A WINDOW INTO THE STATE HOUSE

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted January 9, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

Rep. Mike Connolly’s blog offers a critical look behind the curtain of Mass politics

 

The Massachusetts State House is not a bastion of democracy. I think a growing number of people in the Commonwealth are pretty clear on that fact. Dominated for decades by a series of imperial House speakers, and to a lesser extent by its Senate presidents, ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Blog, Column, corporation, Councilor Denise Simmons, Democracy, Democratic Party, Democrats, general court, Gov Charlie Baker, Housing, Jason Pramas, legislature, Maria Robinson, massachusetts state house, news, oligarchy, policy, Politics, Real Estate, Rep., Rep. Mike Connolly, Republican Party, Republicans, Rules, socialism, zoning

FAIR HOUSING WHACKED: TUFTS STUDENTS FIGHT ADMIN PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH “CLASSIST” DORM SYSTEM

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted December 5, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

More than 200 Tufts University students, faculty, and allies from surrounding communities held a march and demonstration last week to protest a new campus housing policy, according to the  ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Column, development, dorm, gentrification, government, higher education, Housing, Jason Pramas, news, Politics, pricing, private, Protest, public, Real Estate, student, tufts

‘WALK THE TALK’

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted June 13, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Climate protest outside June 8 US Conference of Mayors meeting in Boston. Photo courtesy Mass Sierra Club.

 

Mayor Walsh needs to act faster to mitigate regional global warming threats

 

Environmental groups protested Mayor Marty Walsh last week during the International Mayors ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: 350Mass, Activism, Apparent Horizon, Boston, Boston Clean Energy Coalition, carbon dioxide, Climate Change, CO2, coal, Column, Community Choice Energy, crisis, disaster, economy, emissions, energy, Environment, flooding, fossil fuel, future, gas, global warming, government, heat wave, Jason Pramas, Mass Sierra Club, Massachusetts, mayor Marty Walsh, news, oil, planning, Politics, Real Estate, sea level rise

TOWNIE: CITY ON A HILL

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted May 23, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Townie

 

Global warming will flood Boston. Why not move the state capital to Worcester?

 

Many small American cities have boosterish metro research organizations that look like a cross between a public policy outfit and a chamber of commerce, and the Bay State’s second biggest urban area is no exception. The Worcester Regional ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Townie Tagged With: Activism, agency, Boston, Climate Change, Column, crisis, disaster, economy, Environment, flooding, future, global warming, government, heat wave, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, news, office, planning, Politics, Real Estate, sea level rise, state, Townie, Worcester

TOWNIE: A WORM’S EYE VIEW OF THE MASS POWER STRUCTURE

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted October 18, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Townie

Students at rally at Boston City Hall By NewtonCourt (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

 

From the guy that brings you Apparent Horizon

 

The rich and powerful interests that control Massachusetts politics and the state economy have their fingers in every conceivable pie. So numerous are their projects that it’s difficult for most news outlets to keep track of them, let alone cover them ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Townie Tagged With: BINJ, blurb, Boston, bribe, brief, business, CEO, City Hall, Column, Contact, corruption, development, economy, Jason Pramas, legislature, malfeasance, Massachusetts, news, Politics, Real Estate, Townie

COMMUTE OF THE LIVING DEAD: HOUSE HUNTING

Written by ERIC BOEKER Posted August 7, 2016 Filed Under: Comics

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: body bag, comic strip, comics, death, disapproving girlfriends, eric boeker, for sale, geek, horror, horror art, horror comedy, horror comic, house hunting, humor, kale, laugh, Laugh Cartoon Comics, Night of the Living Dead, open house, punk rock, Real Estate, shakespeare, sunday, Sunday Comics, sunday comics project, sundaycomic, undead, walking dead, webcomic, weird, Zombie, zombie art, Zombie Comedy, zombie comic, zombie webcomic

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