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BROKEN MEDIA, BROKEN POLITICS

  If Mass journalists were doing their jobs, Baker would not be so popular   May 1, 2018 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   It’s always funny to hear that Charlie Baker is a very popular governor… The most popular governor in the country at the moment, according to polls. Because

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JASON PRAMAS May 1, 2018

YOUR MOVE, BOSTON

  Only a massive protest movement can stop government giveaways to megacorps   March, 2018 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   Boston politics—in both its state and local variants—seems to consist largely of backroom deals between government officials and major corporations punctuated by rituals of representative democracy that are increasingly put

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JASON PRAMAS March 7, 2018

TOWNIE: MASS REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITIES FACE MAJOR BUDGET CRISIS

  Gov. Baker’s proposed cuts throw gasoline on raging policy fire   February 21, 2018 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   A quarter-century ago, I lived in Lawrence for a few months. Because it was the closest place to Boston that I could find a cheap apartment on short notice. Unfortunately,

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JASON PRAMAS February 21, 2018

TOWNIE: UMB DRUBBING, PAWSOX GRUBBING

  University cuts and a (possible) corporate scam just in time for the holidays   November 27, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   UMass Boston admin lays off more staff, unions push back The neoliberal war on public higher education continues unabated in Massachusetts as the UMass Boston administration announced

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JASON PRAMAS November 27, 2017

GENERAL ELECTRIC FAIL

  Conglomerate’s woes throw Boston HQ deal contradictions into bold relief   November 15, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   What a surprise. General Electric is tanking, and the scheme to bring the multinational’s headquarters to Boston is looking worse by the day. And whom shall the public blame if

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JASON PRAMAS November 15, 2017

AMAZON OCTAGON

Mass pols stand ready to fight each other for the right to bribe a multinational October 10, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   At least 17 Massachusetts cities and towns are now preparing to do battle with each other—and hundreds more municipalities nationwide—for the dubious “honor” of “winning” the right to

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JASON PRAMAS October 10, 2017

AN AMAZON NORTH ANDOVER DEAL?

Sketch of the Merrimack Valley Works plant at North Andover while under construction in 1955 Merrimack Valley pols courting the tech behemoth have forgotten recent history Sept 26, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS A couple of weeks ago, I criticized the possibility of an Amazon Boston deal—on the grounds that most

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JASON PRAMAS September 26, 2017

STOP THE AMAZON BOSTON DEAL

  Locals have until Oct 19 to say ‘No Public Bribes to Corporate Scofflaws’ Sept. 12, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Fresh off of throwing tens of millions of dollars at General Electric, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker are now planning to enter the international horse race to convince

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JASON PRAMAS September 12, 2017

A PROTEST BY ANY OTHER NAME…

  The best way to defeat the ultra right is to stop playing their game August 15, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Street protest is a vital part of any genuinely democratic political system. But how and when people choose to demonstrate (or counterdemonstrate) determines the tactic’s relative success or failure.

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JASON PRAMAS August 15, 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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