Image by Kent Buckley October 5, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS This week’s column is a codicil to last week’s column on the need for local policy wonks and politicians to stop proposing major public infrastructure projects in parts of Boston that are going to flood during the increasingly frequent global warming-driven super storms slated […]
A NORTH-SOUTH RAIL LINK WON’T DO ANY GOOD UNDERWATER
Image via ELM Action Fund October 2, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS When I heard that two former Massachusetts governors — Michael Dukakis and Bill Weld — are both pushing for a North-South Rail Link between North Station and South Station in downtown Boston, my first reaction was, “I guess they didn’t get my memo.” The “memo” in question […]
Why “Apparent Horizon”: This column explained
September 19, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS APPARENT HORIZON: Your Gateway to a Better Universe is the full title of my new column and it was inspired by a somewhat rarefied area of scientific inquiry. Current hypotheses in theoretical physics — notably one recently propounded by Stephen Hawking — discuss the region surrounding a black hole as an “apparent horizon.” Unlike the […]
LABOUR HATERS: The Boston Globe’s Worrisome Rightward Lurch
September 17, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS There was a time when the Boston Globe was led by what Americans like to call “good liberals.” In global terms that would have made them perhaps center-left at best. Reliably progressive on social issues. Able to at least consider the public good in political economic discussions while trumpeting the […]
LABOR BLUES
Boston Fight for 15 March, April 2015 — Photo © 2015 Jason Pramas September 10, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS A number of contradictions hung in the air at the Greater Boston Labor Council’s annual Labor Day breakfast on Monday. Foremost among them was that the Democratic Party-dominated Massachusetts legislature has agreed to release the MBTA from the provisions […]