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JACOB SCHLES

After Devastating December Budget Trim, HIP May Be Restored By Mass Legislature

The reduction to the Healthy Incentives Program cut monthly benefits for low-income families, but a higher proposed budget may bring back full payments as soon as July 1

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JACOB SCHLES June 25, 2025
CHRIS FARAONE

Massachusetts Legislators Seek Outside Counsel To Thwart Audit, Will Of Voters

Taxpayers will foot the bill for lawmakers to resist deep audit overwhelmingly approved last election Bay State voters faced a simple and straightforward choice this past November—either endorse institutional opacity as usual, or force elected leaders to relinquish the cloak of immunity their offices have enjoyed since short guys in

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CHRIS FARAONE February 9, 2025
JASON PRAMAS

TESTIMONY BY INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS AND ALLIES

At the June 26, 2024 hearing regarding the Mass. journalism commission before the Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Businesses of the Mass. legislature

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JASON PRAMAS June 27, 2024
PAT JEHLEN

OPINION: TROUBLE WITH A CAPITAL T

People are furious at the state of the MBTA: the fatality, the fire, the explosion, the derailments, the injuries, the delays, the actual and proposed cuts in service, the month-long closure of the Orange and Green Line. In 2009, two reports looked at Gov. Cellucci’s 1999 Forward Funding plan, which was developed

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PAT JEHLEN September 6, 2022
Laura Kiesel and Jordan Frias testify at the second journalism commission hearing, July 10, 2019. Photo courtesy of Sarah Betancourt.
JASON PRAMAS

GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING KEY TO PASSING JOURNALISM COMMISSION LAW

Journalists mounted unusual lobbying effort to help beleaguered local news outlets

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JASON PRAMAS February 7, 2021
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

THE MERRIMACK VALLEY DISASTER: IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT OLD PIPES

The magnitude of the disaster is just starting to sink in. About 8,500 homes were affected, and its occupants are being told that it will take months to replace the cast iron gas pipes under city streets and restore service.

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JASON PRAMAS September 18, 2018
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

GRAND SCHEME

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

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JASON PRAMAS June 26, 2018
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