A Somerville Housing Needs Assessment report notes that the majority of units at risk of losing their affordability are located in Union Square (pictured), as increased gentrification due to the anticipated extension of the Green Line to the neighborhood has caused spikes in the cost of property | Photo by Jason Pramas For people living […]
THE OUTSIDERS
Kicked out of home and misunderstood by social service providers, homeless LGBTQ youth often have nowhere to turn Author’s Note: The central character in this story, Liniște, asked that she be referred to by a pseudonym for safety reasons. I met Liniște in September and spent five months following her throughout various parts of her […]
ARTS WATCH: LESLEY UNIVERSITY
Prof Anthony Apesos teaching Art Institute of Boston (now LUCAD) MFA students in January 2011. Photo by Jason Pramas Alumni, students demand reinstatement of MFA program founder A group of more than 200 alumni and current graduate students have sent a petition to Lesley University’s administration, demanding the reinstatement of Anthony Apesos—a popular professor—to the […]
SNUBWAY
This may help explain why you’ve had so much trouble renting and returning public bikes in Boston By most measures, the Hubway bike-share program has had a very successful fifth year. It celebrated its 5 millionth ride and expanded deep into East Boston, South Boston, Dorchester, and Roxbury. But Hubway’s growth has also meant a surge in […]
UMASS CAMBRIDGE: MAKING HARVARD UNIVERSITY PUBLIC WILL SOLVE ITS WORKERS’ PROBLEMS—AND THE COMMONWEALTH’S HIGHER ED CRISIS
October 24, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Three weeks into their strike, Harvard University dining hall workers are in a difficult position. Their union’s demands for better wages, benefits, and working conditions are falling on deaf ears in the Harvard administration. They cannot continue picketing indefinitely on $200 weekly strike pay—which itself won’t last for […]