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The Globe’s detailed look at student housing abuses
As a Northeastern professor, I’m certainly aware that many of our students live in less-than-ideal conditions. But to the extent that I’d given it much thought, I had assumed the squalor was largely...
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The Boston Globe doubles down on political coverage
Previously published at WGBHNews.org. The message last night was straightforward: The Boston Globe was launching a new weekly political section, Capital, in print and online. It was the messaging,...
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City workers can’t criticize Olympics. Or maybe they can.
There’s much more to be learned about this, obviously, but right now it’s unclear whether Boston city employees can or can’t criticize the Olympics bid. Michael Levenson reports in The Boston Globe...
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Why the Olympics defeat is the Market Basket saga of 2015
Market Basket protesters in 2014 The defeat of the Boston Olympics bid was this summer’s Market Basket story — a feel-good saga about ordinary people triumphing over the moneyed interests. Boston Globe...
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Did Verizon pull a fast one on Marty Walsh?
At Universal Hub, cybah analyzes two Huffington Post articles by Bruce Kushnick, executive director of the New Networks Institute, and concludes that Boston Mayor Marty Walsh may have gotten taken for...
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Two smart progressive women who serve on the Boston City Council will challenge Mayor Marty Walsh next year, assuming Walsh seeks re-election. I’m not sure I can remember a time that candidates who are...
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The Globe’s shocking story on the Boston Police should be just the beginning
Photo (cc) 2019 by Jim.henderson The Boston Globe’s report about a former police officer and union president accused of molesting multiple children is, to my mind, the most important and disturbing...
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Regrets, Walsh has a few
Then-Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. Photo (cc) 2014 by Joe Spurr. Good to know that Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh regrets having dumped the Dennis White mess into Acting Mayor Kim Janey’s lap. But he still...
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Healey’s ascension coincides with the dispiriting collapse of politics in Mass.
Maura Healey. Photo (cc) 2015 by Charlie Baker. Yes, that’s what the photo credit says. Yes, I realize that’s Baker on the left-hand side of the frame. State Sen. Sonia Chang-Díaz’s withdrawal from the...
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The 2022 New England Muzzle Awards: Spotlighting 10 who diminish free speech
Illustration by Meryl Brenner / GBH News A Boston mayor who trampled on a religious group’s right to freedom of expression. A Worcester city manager who trampled on the public’s right to know about...
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