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November 1, 2020 By DAN ATKINSON

POLITICALLY CONNECTED CONSULTANTS WIN LARGE COVID SCHOOL CONTRACTS IN MASS

Like the state government’s contract for no-bid saliva tests, the contract with McKinsey was issued without going through the standard bidding process

Filed Under: Education, Pandemic Democracy Project Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Charlie Baker, coronavirus, COVID, mapoli, news, news to us, Pandemic Democracy Project

October 28, 2020 By JEAN TROUNSTINE

“COMPELLING” CASE MADE IN 5-PLUS HOUR COMMUTATION HEARING

“I cannot be silent when I helped to bring about the conviction of a man for the wrong crime”

Filed Under: Reporting Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Charlie Baker, commutation, criminal justice, doc, Mass DOC, news, parole board, prison reform, Thomas Koonce

August 18, 2020 By DAN ATKINSON

KRAFT GROUP AMONG BUSINESSES SELLING PPE TO MASS W/ NO-BID CONTRACTS

While not all of this spending is coronavirus-related, it’s easy to see how some vendors have found new opportunities with the pandemic.

Filed Under: Pandemic Democracy Project Tagged With: Charlie Baker, COVID, Krafts, Pandemic Democracy Project, Patriots, PPE

April 29, 2020 By DAN ATKINSON

LANDLORDS CAN’T EVICT DURING PANDEMIC, BUT A BUNCH OF THEM TRIED

evictions pandemic boston

“It was sort of testing the water with it, seeing what [evictions] they can get away with. This legislation stopped folks in their tracks before it caught on.”

Filed Under: Housing, Pandemic Democracy Project Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Boston, Cambridge, Charlie Baker, City Life, coronavirus, COVID, evictions, housing, landlords, legislation, Milke Connolly, news, news to us, notices, Pandemic Democracy Project, slider, Somerville, Vida Urbana

April 21, 2020 By JEAN TROUNSTINE

THE DYSFUNCTIONAL MASS PAROLE BOARD’S INEVITABLE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS

Massachusetts prisons coronavirus

“Most prisons and many jails have done very little to reduce the population density that puts both incarcerated people and staff at grave risk.”

Filed Under: Features, Pandemic Democracy Project Tagged With: Charlie Baker, coronavirus, COVID, criminal justice reform, decarceration, doc, features, jails, mapoli, news, Pandemic Democracy Project, prisons, SJC, SJN, Solutions Journalism Network

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