The solution to UMass Boston’s woes could start with a city-run college There was an interesting conversation recently between two people who I often criticize for being… um… insufficiently public spirited. The Boston Globe’s Shirley Leung asked Boston mayor Marty Walsh a great question: “What if the city took over the University of Massachusetts […]
BOYS ON THE SIDE
Strictly Prohibited buttons designed by Alex Kittle | Photo by C. Shardae Jobson JP’s guy-free film night is the perfect post-Weinstein outpost “Women watch movies, right?” Kristen Bonstein asks that question in feigned shock as she and Alex Kittle, the co-founders of Strictly Brohibited, and I discuss representation of women in film. Such conversations are […]
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 he doesn’t do anything very […]
JAMMED UP
Is Boston cycle infrastructure getting better faster than congestion gets worse? Matt bikes daily. He says that one of those days last summer, while biking past the Harvard Coop in Cambridge, he saw a car with an Uber sign parked in the bike lane. When he began to steer around the Uber, the car almost […]
TOWNIE: WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND
Or how tax breaks for fat cats relate to a defeat for Harvard management rats April 26, 2018 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS “Opportunity” for the few Gov. Charlie Baker submitted paperwork to the US Department of Treasury last week, according to the Republican, asking the federal government to consider 138 tracts in […]