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July 26, 2020 By JASON PRAMAS

HELP SAVE LOCAL NEWS! ASK YOUR MA STATE REP TO BACK AMENDMENT #40 TODAY!

Washington Street, Newspaper Row (in Boston a century ago)

[W]e’re asking all readers who are concerned about the collapse of local news media to contact your state representative and ask them to cosponsor Amendment #40 of H. 4879. The more cosponsors the amendment has, the more likely House Ways and Means will pass it. If that happens it has a good chance of making it through the full legislative process for this session. And becoming a law. Which would be a promising outcome for the future of local news in the Commonwealth. 

Filed Under: Engagement Tagged With: Activism, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Chris Faraone, community, democracy, DigBoston, editorial, engagement, grassroots, Jason Pramas, journalism, journalism commission, legislation, local news, local newspaper, news media, newspaper, organizing

April 29, 2020 By DAN ATKINSON

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

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“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

March 27, 2019 By JASON PRAMAS

IT’S TIME TO BRING BACK RENT CONTROL IN MASSACHUSETTS

  Some cause for hope in new tenant protection legislation being filed at the State House Yesterday, I saw some good news in the local press. A rarity to be sure. The Boston Globe reported that Rep. Mike Connolly and a coalition of other state legislators are about to file a rent control bill. However, […]

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: bill, Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, capitalism, Column, corruption, democracy, economy, greed, housing, Jason Pramas, labor, legislation, Massachusetts, neoliberal, politics, poverty, Real Estate, referendum, rent control, Rep. Mike Connolly, Socialism, Somerville, state government

January 16, 2019 By JASON PRAMAS

GATEHOUSE EDITORIAL FLACKS FOR MASS RETAILERS

Calls for undermining the rising statewide minimum wage with a subminimum wage for teens

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: bad jobs, Cambridge Chronicle, capitalism, child labor, Column, contingent work, economy, GateHouse Media, Jason Pramas, labor, legislation, Massachusetts, minimum wage, neoliberal, politics, Retailers Association of Massachusetts, Socialism, subminimum wage

November 14, 2018 By JASON PRAMAS

QUESTION 1: THE ROAD NOT TRAVELLED

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  A broader appeal could have resulted in a win for nurses and patients   There was no way I was going to criticize Question 1, prosaically dubbed the Nurse-Patient Assignment Limits Initiative, in advance of Election Day. As a longtime labor advocate, I didn’t think it would be appropriate to publicly gainsay a decent […]

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: 1199SEIU, Apparent Horizon, ballot, Column, Health, hospital, initiative, Jason Pramas, labor, legislation, Mass Nurses Association, Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association, news, patient safety, politics, question 1, referendum, SEIU, staffing

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