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CURTIS WALTMAN

CASE OPEN (A FIRE SALE FOLLOW-UP)

Connecticut high court ruling opens up Mass gun seller to Newtown lawsuit

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CURTIS WALTMAN March 26, 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
OLIVIA MASTROSIMONE

THIS IS U.S.

A community confronts stigmas hurting immigrants in America

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OLIVIA MASTROSIMONE March 14, 2019
SETH KERSHNER

RIGHTS, CAMERAS, EXTRACTIONS

Hampshire County has the most violent small jail in the state, and one of the least transparent

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SETH KERSHNER March 14, 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

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

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JASON PRAMAS March 6, 2019
JASON PRAMAS

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.

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JASON PRAMAS February 28, 2019
BINJ ONLINE

ARC OF THE MORAL UNIVERSE

Mass State Police and local law enforcement have spent millions amassing an arsenal of Tasers, but there’s minimal accountability for those doing the purchasing, or for those doing the tasing

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BINJ ONLINE February 27, 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

PUBLIC BAD. PRIVATE GOOD?

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

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JASON PRAMAS February 6, 2019
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