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LINDA PINKOW

CONNECTING FAMILIES WITH RESOURCES

Interactive database offers access to programs, knowledge for children and caregivers With children returning to school this week, parents may be searching for programs, services, and activities coming up, as well as facts and advice about general developmental issues. City government, in partnership with its community of educators, caregivers, and

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LINDA PINKOW August 30, 2022
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

SOMERVILLE WIRE: November 2, 2021 WEEKLY ROUNDUP

A Veterans Day ceremony, a staged reading of “The Birds,” and an event at the Somerville Museum Articles CURTATONE SPEAKS OUT ABOUT FORMATION OF PUBLIC BANK Mayoral candidates also weighed in on whether the Commonwealth should build this entity BUSINESS PROFILE: PEARL STREET TATTOO CLUB The new East Somerville space

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SHIRA LAUCHAROEN November 2, 2021
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CITY OF SOMERVILLE

REQUIREMENTS FOR OUTDOOR DINING IN SOMERVILLE RESTAURANTS

The Somerville Licensing Commission seeks the public’s assistance in disseminating the Commission’s requirements for outdoor dining in Somerville restaurants. These requirements are intended to assist patrons in behaving responsibly, to help keep other patrons, the general public, and restaurant workers safe in this time of pandemic.

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CITY OF SOMERVILLE August 11, 2020
JASON PRAMAS

SOME THOUGHTS ON TRANSPORTATION POLICY

It was vexing to watch Bird fans that clearly hadn’t even bothered to read the article in question—let alone my broad and deep back catalog—attack me as some kind of car-loving anti-environmental reactionary in the service of flogging their hipster transportation fetish du jour.

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JASON PRAMAS August 16, 2018
JASON PRAMAS

FLIPPING US THE BIRD

Bird’s model looks to be entirely profit-driven and completely mean-spirited. No matter how much CEO Travis VanderZanden tries to equate the unasked-for and unwanted service to “freedom.”

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JASON PRAMAS July 25, 2018

EVERSOURCE SCREWS MASS CONSUMERS

  With a little help from its friends, the “regulators” at the Department of Public Utilities   December 5, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   It is perhaps understandable that one of the most important Massachusetts news stories of the year was buried in the avalanche of reports coming out

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JASON PRAMAS December 5, 2017

REAL RIDESHARING

  Evolving the way the world moves … beyond Uber (and Lyft) July 7, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS The following column was written as commentary for the July 2017 episode of the Beyond Boston monthly video news digest — produced by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and several area public access television stations.

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JASON PRAMAS July 7, 2017
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