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10 Exhibit Ideas For The Museum Of American Finance

On May Day, “the other workers’ holiday,” some public-spirited programming suggestions for the incoming Boston attraction

JASON PRAMAS May 1, 2025

BOSTON DSA FACTION SHOULD DROP ITS CHARGES AGAINST REP. MIKE CONNOLLY

An apology would also be in order As the saying goes, “we all make mistakes.” And I think the faction of the Boston Democratic Socialists of America that has filed written charges against Rep. Mike Connolly to demand his expulsion from that chartered local of a national political organization to

JASON PRAMAS July 7, 2023

THE RIGHT QUESTION FOR THE BROAD LEFT

On July 5, start asking the Democrats, “What policies will help working families?”

JASON PRAMAS July 4, 2019

IT’S TIME TO BRING BACK RENT CONTROL IN MASSACHUSETTS

Some cause for hope in new tenant protection legislation being filed at the State House Yesterday, I saw some good news in the local press. A rarity to be sure. The Boston Globe reported that Rep. Mike Connolly and a coalition of other state legislators are about to file

JASON PRAMAS March 27, 2019

PROPOSED STATE JOURNALISM COMMISSION NEEDS BROADER MEMBERSHIP

IMAGE: Sandstorm State House collage by Jason Pramas (using public domain images) More working journalists, less elite institutes Chris Faraone,* John Loftus,** and I spend a lot of time thinking about how to rebuild American journalism. Pretty much from the ground up, since so many news outlets and jobs in

JASON PRAMAS March 20, 2019

THE FALL OF THE GE BOSTON DEAL, PART II

AG Healey should form independent commission to investigate the failed agreement Last week in the first installment of this two-part column, I ran through the many problems with the January 2016 deal between General Electric, the city of Boston, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that has now collapsed for

JASON PRAMAS March 6, 2019

THE FALL OF THE GE BOSTON DEAL, PART I

The official narrative and the real story Readers might feel that this should be a time for me to take a victory lap. The GE Boston deal that I criticized from the moment it was made public in January 2016 has crashed to Earth a bit over three years later.

JASON PRAMAS February 28, 2019

PUBLIC BAD. PRIVATE GOOD?

Boston Herald’s attack on MassHousing highlights double standard in American journalism

JASON PRAMAS February 6, 2019

WHY GATEHOUSE’S BOSTON ‘MEGACLUSTER’ IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY

No corporation should own most newspapers in a region In last week’s Apparent Horizon, “GateHouse Editorial Flacks for Mass Retailers,” I dissected an editorial, “The benefits of a teen minimum wage,” calling for a subminimum wage for Bay State teenage workers that turned out to have run in over two

JASON PRAMAS January 23, 2019

GATEHOUSE EDITORIAL FLACKS FOR MASS RETAILERS

Calls for undermining the rising statewide minimum wage with a subminimum wage for teens

JASON PRAMAS January 16, 2019