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YOUR MOVE, BOSTON

  Only a massive protest movement can stop government giveaways to megacorps   March, 2018 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   Boston politics—in both its state and local variants—seems to consist largely of backroom deals between government officials and major corporations punctuated by rituals of representative democracy that are increasingly put

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JASON PRAMAS March 7, 2018

TOWNIE: MASS REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITIES FACE MAJOR BUDGET CRISIS

  Gov. Baker’s proposed cuts throw gasoline on raging policy fire   February 21, 2018 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   A quarter-century ago, I lived in Lawrence for a few months. Because it was the closest place to Boston that I could find a cheap apartment on short notice. Unfortunately,

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JASON PRAMAS February 21, 2018
DENNIS MALER

HOMEROOM HILARITY

Meet the brilliant, warped minds of Boston comedy who are teaching your children by day Nearly every comedy club offers classes to teach people how to be funny, or at least how to do stand-up. Most are taught by accomplished, seasoned industry veterans; still, there’s another whole side to the

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DENNIS MALER February 18, 2018

CRISIS AVERTED

  MBTA bus mechanics beat back privatization… at a cost   February 14, 2018 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   Unionized bus mechanics represented by the International Association of Machinists Local 264 won an important victory last week when they agreed to a four-year contract with the MBTA—effectively ending a two-year

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JASON PRAMAS February 14, 2018

“WON’T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!”

  Moral panic hamstrings promising North Andover cannabis farm deal   February 6, 2018 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS     Last fall, I wrote about the history of Osgood Landing—a large industrial facility in North Andover—as part of a column (“An Andover North Andover Deal?”) slamming a hasty bid to

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JASON PRAMAS February 6, 2018

SEA LEVEL RISE IS JUST ONE OF BOSTON’S WORRIES

As Earth approaches several catastrophic global warming “tipping points”   January 24, 2018 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   Before writing more columns examining Boston city government’s emerging plans to cope with the effects of global warming, I think a quick review of what area residents are likely to face in

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JASON PRAMAS January 24, 2018

THE SEAPORT FLOOD IS JUST THE BEGINNING

  Unless Boston builds proper defenses against global warming-driven sea level rise   January 17, 2018 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   So, Boston’s Seaport District flooded early this month during a bad snowstorm in the midst of several days of arctic temperatures. And nobody could be less surprised than me.

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JASON PRAMAS January 17, 2018

ON MAKERSPACES AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

  Making can be cool, but conscious making is cooler   December 19, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   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

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JASON PRAMAS December 19, 2017

TOWNIE: CORPORATE TAX FABLES AND COMMUNITARIAN KIDDIE TABLES

  December 12, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   Big local corps quiet about huge profits to come from Repub tax scheme… except GE An interesting WBUR article, “Largest Mass. Companies Are Mostly Silent On GOP Tax Plans,” asked the top 12 corporations in the Commonwealth to comment on the

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JASON PRAMAS December 12, 2017

EVERSOURCE SCREWS MASS CONSUMERS

  With a little help from its friends, the “regulators” at the Department of Public Utilities   December 5, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   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

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JASON PRAMAS December 5, 2017
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