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August 11, 2020 By CITY OF SOMERVILLE

REQUIREMENTS FOR OUTDOOR DINING IN SOMERVILLE RESTAURANTS

Seal of Somerville, Massachusetts

The Somerville Licensing Commission seeks the public’s assistance in disseminating the Commission’s requirements for outdoor dining in Somerville restaurants. These requirements are intended to assist patrons in behaving responsibly, to help keep other patrons, the general public, and restaurant workers safe in this time of pandemic.

Filed Under: Announcement, Somerville News Garden, Somerville Wire Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID19, Massachusetts, municipal, public service, Somerville

August 16, 2018 By JASON PRAMAS

SOME THOUGHTS ON TRANSPORTATION POLICY

It was vexing to watch Bird fans that clearly hadn’t even bothered to read the article in question—let alone my broad and deep back catalog—attack me as some kind of car-loving anti-environmental reactionary in the service of flogging their hipster transportation fetish du jour.

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: accident, Alphabet, Apparent Horizon, bicycle, bike, Bird Rides, boat, bus, car, Climate Change, Column, development, ecology, electric, Environment, global warming, golf cart, Google, Health, housing, Jason Pramas, Jump Bikes, Lime, Lyft, monorail, motorcycle, municipal, news, planning, policy, politics, prevention, public, robot, safety, scooter, Spin, train, transportation, Uber, urban, vehicle sharing

July 25, 2018 By JASON PRAMAS

FLIPPING US THE BIRD

Bird’s model looks to be entirely profit-driven and completely mean-spirited. No matter how much CEO Travis VanderZanden tries to equate the unasked-for and unwanted service to “freedom.”

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: accident, Alphabet, Apparent Horizon, bicycle, bike, Bird Rides, Blue Bikes, Column, Google, Health, Jason Pramas, Jump Bikes, LimeBike, Lyft, municipal, news, politics, prevention, privatization, public, safety, scam, scooter, Spin, transportation, Uber, vehicle sharing

December 5, 2017 By JASON PRAMAS

EVERSOURCE SCREWS MASS CONSUMERS

  With a little help from its friends, the “regulators” at the Department of Public Utilities   December 5, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   It is perhaps understandable that one of the most important Massachusetts news stories of the year was buried in the avalanche of reports coming out of Washington last week. But […]

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: AG, Apparent Horizon, attorney general, Avangrid, Boston, choice, Column, corporation, Department of Public Utilities, economy, electricity, energy, Eversource, hike, investor-owned, Jason Pramas, MAMEC, Massachusetts, Maura Healey, muni, municipal, news, politics, power, rate, regulation, regulatory capture, utilities, utility

July 7, 2017 By JASON PRAMAS

REAL RIDESHARING

  Evolving the way the world moves … beyond Uber (and Lyft) July 7, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS The following column was written as commentary for the July 2017 episode of the Beyond Boston monthly video news digest — produced by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and several area public access television stations. It’s aimed at suburbanites, but […]

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston, Fasten, ffordable, government, Jason Pramas, labor, living wage, Lyft, Mass, Massachusetts, MBTA, municipal, public, ridesharing, transit, transportation, Uber, work, working class

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