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JASON PRAMAS

APPARENT HORIZON: NO SURPRISE MASSACHUSETTS HAS A HOUSING CRISIS

Just look at what happened to the former East Cambridge courthouse property (now “40 Thorndike”) …

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JASON PRAMAS August 8, 2024
COHAVIT GIL

SQUARE ROOTS

The Legendary Past And Uncertain Future Of The Harvard Square Theatre Will the iconic venue ever return to its rock roots as has been rumored?  When I first discovered the Harvard Square Theatre on a lunch break from work, it felt like I had realized its potential all on my

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COHAVIT GIL March 28, 2023
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

RENT INCREASES AT WASHINGTON STREET ART CENTER ARE THE LATEST IN A PATTERN OF REAL ESTATE CHANGE

Artists wonder what is in store for the cooperative’s future Rent hikes of 31 percent asked by the new owner of Somerville’s Washington Street Art Center have tenants anxious and uncertain, with some expecting they’ll have to leave to face an increasingly unwelcoming market for studio space. Businesses and expensive

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SHIRA LAUCHAROEN March 11, 2022
HASSAN GHANNY

HOW THE DELAWARE REAL ESTATE SHELL GAME IMPACTS MASSACHUSETTS

We traced 500-plus Mass properties to fewer than 20 Delaware addresses. Will this costly loophole ever close?

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HASSAN GHANNY November 8, 2020
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

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
Tufts students march against tiered housing policy. Photo by Amira Al-Subaey, Tufts class of 2019.
JASON PRAMAS

FAIR HOUSING WHACKED: TUFTS STUDENTS FIGHT ADMIN PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH “CLASSIST” DORM SYSTEM

  More than 200 Tufts University students, faculty, and allies from surrounding communities held a march and demonstration last week to protest a new campus housing policy, according to the Boston Herald. Over the summer, the Tufts administration announced that its annual lottery system for on-campus housing during each academic

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JASON PRAMAS December 5, 2018
JASON PRAMAS

‘WALK THE TALK’

Mayor Walsh needs to act faster to mitigate regional global warming threats

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JASON PRAMAS June 13, 2018
JASON PRAMAS

CITY ON A HILL

  Global warming will flood Boston. Why not move the state capital to Worcester? Many small American cities have boosterish metro research organizations that look like a cross between a public policy outfit and a chamber of commerce, and the Bay State’s second biggest urban area is no exception. The

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JASON PRAMAS May 23, 2018

TOWNIE: A WORM’S EYE VIEW OF THE MASS POWER STRUCTURE+

Students at rally at Boston City Hall by NewtonCourt (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons From the guy that brings you Apparent Horizon October 18, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   The rich and powerful interests that control Massachusetts politics and the state economy have their fingers in

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JASON PRAMAS October 18, 2017
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