BROKEN MEDIA, BROKEN POLITICS
…personally need good jobs with benefits, need free higher education, need major improvement to infrastructure like the MBTA—because of entrenched structural inequality—that’s a different story. A story whose narrative…
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Our new novelty trading cards lampooning MBTA waste and mismanagement The Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ) has produced multiple investigative features on the MBTA, in the process identifying tens…
Eviction Looms For Unhoused Youth At Wellington Station After Alleged Arson
MBTA Transit Police are threatening to sweep a temporary housing encampment in Medford, shouldering the Wellington T station, by this Friday. The site is currently occupied by six homeless young…
SOMERVILLE WIRE: June 22, 2021 WEEKLY ROUNDUP
…Charles E. Ryan Road o No parking 8 a.m. to midnight. Access for abutters only from 4 to 6 p.m. Street closed to all traffic 6 p.m. to midnight. MBTA…
WHERE CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR STAND ON THE ENVIRONMENT
…order to forge a new future for our state.” Since the majority of funding for the MBTA comes from the state, having a political ally as governor would be a…
SOMERVILLE WIRE: JANUARY 25, 2022 WEEKLY ROUNDUP
…The City of Somerville, the Somerville Arts Council, the MBTA, and the Gilman Square Neighborhood Association are looking for artists who would create public art for Gilman Square, specifically for…
Opinion: A Rebuttal To My Opponent In The 26th Middlesex District Race
…In the Legislature, I helped advance the MBTA Communities Act, passed the nation’s strongest eviction and foreclosure moratorium, and made key tenant protections permanent. I co-founded the Housing For All…
SOMERVILLE WIRE: DECEMBER 14, 2022 WEEKLY ROUNDUP
…sidewalks will be installed to maintain safe crossings so as not to impede pedestrian travel, and allow access to businesses and residences along the affected stretch. MBTA buses 88 and…
OPINION: GLX IS HERE! CELEBRATING AND LOOKING AHEAD
…and their staffers worked closely with the MBTA team for years. Past and present federal delegation members secured federal funding, without which this project would literally not have been possible….
ON THE IMPORTANCE OF POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN AN AGE OF EXISTENTIAL THREATS
…informs me that activist pressure campaigns will still be required if change is going to come fast enough to matter. For example, let’s look at two local crises: The MBTA…