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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

GRAND SCHEME

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted June 26, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

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

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, bill, budget, Column, corporation, Democracy, economy, education, Fair Share amendment, family and medical leave, Fight For 15, general court, Gov Charlie Baker, graduated, grand bargain, higher education, Jason Pramas, legislature, Massachusetts, millionaire's tax, MTA, news, Politics, public, referendum, rich, SEIU, Speaker Robert DeLeo, Supreme Judicial Court, taxation, transportation, wealthy

CAPITALIST VETO

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted June 19, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Money tips the scales of justice image

 

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

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, budget, Column, corporation, Democracy, economy, education, Fair Share amendment, graduated, higher education, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, millionaire's tax, MTA, news, Politics, public, referendum, rich, SEIU, Supreme Judicial Court, taxation, transportation, wealthy

PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE Posted January 22, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

The animal rights group PETA is set to argue an important case that will determine the limits of the so-called public safety exemption to the public records law

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, andrew quemere, Beacon Hill, Broken Records, Charles River Laboratories, Commonwealth, exemption, Harvard Medical School, Laura Rotolo, Massachusetts, PETA, public information, public records, public safety exemption, SJC, Supreme Judicial Court

JUDGE DREAD: SINCE YOU’RE ALREADY WORRYING ABOUT TRUMP’S APPOINTMENTS …

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted October 18, 2016 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Baker’s judicial picks include a corporate lawyer and a star DUI attorney

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, Arthur Garrity Jr., Beacon Hill, Braintree, Brockton, Charlie Baker, Donald Trump, dui, Ed Sharkansky, Governor's Council, JNC, judgeship, Judicial Nominating Commission, Plymouth County, SCOTUS. POTUS. Karen F. Green, Supreme Judicial Court

COURT REFORM: IN MEDIEVAL MASS, MEDICAL MARIJUANA ADVOCATES HAVE TO SUE FOR CHANGE

Written by MIKE CANN Posted May 27, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

It’s not all bad news—not since the state Supreme Judicial Court ruled recently that ...

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Cristina Barbuto, DEA, H.2065, hardship, John Seed, lawsuits, Marijuana, Mass Patient Advocacy Alliance, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, medical marijuana, Nichole Snow, Pioneer Valley, SJC ruling, Supreme Judicial Court, warrants

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LGBTQ+ prisoners in Mass stand up to a violent sys LGBTQ+ prisoners in Mass stand up to a violent system that targets and dehumanizes vulnerable populations. https://digboston.com/special-feature-the-cruel-and-usual-violence-against-lgbtq-people-in-mass-prisons/ #prison #prisoner #humanrights #LGBT #politics #Massachusetts
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