Like pretty much every journalist, I think about who I am writing for* from time to time. Most writers aren’t just sending messages into the ether, after all. Unless they are writing for therapeutic reasons. Or they are diarists. But even diarists are typically writing for some future audience they Continue Reading
The event is aimed at bringing area journalists together with Somerville residents to discuss issues and happenings that need coverage by local news media.
For black gun advocates in purple Mass, criticism comes in red, white, and blue
No corporation should own most newspapers in a region In last week’s Apparent Horizon, “GateHouse Editorial Flacks for Mass Retailers,” I dissected an editorial, “The benefits of a teen minimum wage,” calling for a subminimum wage for Bay State teenage workers that turned out to have run in over two Continue Reading
Calls for undermining the rising statewide minimum wage with a subminimum wage for teens
Will New Bedford finally find out what happened to Malcolm Gracia?
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Rep. Mike Connolly’s blog offers a critical look behind the curtain of Mass politics
In last week’s column looking back at “2018: The Year in Global Warming,” I reviewed the dire threat posed to humanity and our environment by climate change, and concluded with the following: The big question for Bostonians and anyone else reading this: How do we go from this grim state Continue Reading
“We are the first generation to fully understand climate change and the last generation to be able to do something about it.” —Petteri Taalas, secretary-general, World Meteorological Organization Given all the developments I could review from the year that’s now drawing to a close—and given that I primarily write Continue Reading
