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JASON PRAMAS

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

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JASON PRAMAS March 27, 2019
JASON PRAMAS

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

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JASON PRAMAS March 20, 2019
Jason Pramas and Amy Carter at the “Northampton 15” CIA Off Campus Trial in Northampton, MA on April 8, 1987. Stills from WGBH archival video, courtesy of the Boston TV News Digital Library.
JASON PRAMAS

ON THE IMPORTANCE OF POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN AN AGE OF EXISTENTIAL THREATS

IMAGE: Jason Pramas and Amy Carter at the “Northampton 15” CIA Off Campus Trial in Northampton, MA on April 8, 1987. Stills from WGBH archival video, courtesy of the Boston TV News Digital Library. This week, a reminder that politics is not a spectator sport. I was listening to a

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JASON PRAMAS March 13, 2019
JASON PRAMAS

SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY SUMMIT

Convening a city to improve its news media

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JASON PRAMAS February 21, 2019
JASON PRAMAS

A WINDOW INTO THE STATE HOUSE

Rep. Mike Connolly’s blog offers a critical look behind the curtain of Mass politics

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JASON PRAMAS January 9, 2019
JASON PRAMAS

POPULAR NOT POPULIST

Governor Baker continues to poll well with people he’s screwing

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JASON PRAMAS July 31, 2018
JASON PRAMAS

STOP BAKER’S ‘MORE SCHOOL COPS AND SURVEILLANCE’ PLAN

Why the Mass budget surplus is better spent on infrastructure needs

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JASON PRAMAS July 17, 2018
JASON PRAMAS

‘DON’T MOURN, ORGANIZE!’

Why Janus might actually be good for the American labor movement

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JASON PRAMAS July 3, 2018
JASON PRAMAS

GRAND SCHEME

Mass legislature helps, harms workers in “deal” with labor and business lobbies

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JASON PRAMAS June 26, 2018
JASON PRAMAS

CAPITALIST VETO

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

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JASON PRAMAS June 19, 2018
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