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IT’S TIME TO BRING BACK RENT CONTROL IN MASSACHUSETTS

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QUESTION 1: THE ROAD NOT TRAVELLED

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A broader appeal could have resulted in a win for nurses and patients

 

There was no way I was going to criticize Question 1, prosaically dubbed the Nurse-Patient Assignment Limits ...  read more

GRAND SCHEME

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workers protesting

 

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 ...  read more

CAPITALIST VETO

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Popular “millionaires’ tax” referendum question blocked by a pro-business SJC

 

The Fair Share Amendment—better known as the “millionaires’ tax”—that would have gone before voters this November as a statewide referendum question  ...  read more