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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

March 20, 2019 By JASON PRAMAS

PROPOSED STATE JOURNALISM COMMISSION NEEDS BROADER MEMBERSHIP

IMAGE: Sandstorm State House collage by Jason Pramas (using public domain images) More working journalists, less elite institutes Chris Faraone,* John Loftus,** and I spend a lot of time thinking about how to rebuild American journalism. Pretty much from the ground up, since so many news outlets and jobs in the field have been destroyed […]

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: bad jobs, boston university, capitalism, Column, commission, contingent work, democracy, economy, emerson college, Framingham State University, Harvard University, Jason Pramas, journalism, labor, Massachusetts, neoliberal, news, news desert, NewsGuild-Communication Workers of America, newspaper, Nieman Foundation, Northeastern University, politics, Rep. Jim Hawkins, Rep. Lori Ehrlich, SAG-AFTRA, Sen. Brendan Crighton, Shorenstein Center, Socialism, state government, UMass Amherst

February 6, 2019 By JASON PRAMAS

PUBLIC BAD. PRIVATE GOOD?

Boston Herald’s attack on MassHousing highlights double standard in American journalism

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston Herald, Braintree, business expense, capitalism, Column, Digital First Media, economy, government, hotel, Jason Pramas, journalism, labor, leased car, Massachusetts, neoliberal, news, newspaper, per diem, politics, public, racism, travel

January 23, 2019 By JASON PRAMAS

WHY GATEHOUSE’S BOSTON ‘MEGACLUSTER’ IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY

No corporation should own most newspapers in a region In last week’s Apparent Horizon, “GateHouse Editorial Flacks for Mass Retailers,” I dissected an editorial, “The benefits of a teen minimum wage,” calling for a subminimum wage for Bay State teenage workers that turned out to have run in over two dozen eastern Mass newspapers owned […]

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: bad jobs, Cambridge Chronicle, capitalism, child labor, Column, contingent work, economy, Fortress Investment Group LLC, GateHouse Media, history, Jason Pramas, labor, Massachusetts, megacluster, neoliberal, New Media Investment Group Inc, news, newspaper, politics, Retailers Association of Massachusetts, Socialism, SoftBank Group Corp, subminimum wage

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

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