City government continues issuing reports while UN calls for immediate action
THE MERRIMACK VALLEY DISASTER: IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT OLD PIPES
The magnitude of the disaster is just starting to sink in. About 8,500 homes were affected, and its occupants are being told that it will take months to replace the cast iron gas pipes under city streets and restore service.
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.
GREENFIELD BLUES
Homelessness is not just a big-city problem in Mass
POPULAR NOT POPULIST
Governor Baker continues to poll well with people he’s screwing
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.”
STOP BAKER’S ‘MORE SCHOOL COPS AND SURVEILLANCE’ PLAN
Why the Mass budget surplus is better spent on infrastructure needs
‘DON’T MOURN, ORGANIZE!’
Why Janus might actually be good for the American labor movement
GRAND SCHEME
Mass legislature helps, harms workers in “deal” with labor and business lobbies
CAPITALIST VETO
Popular “millionaires’ tax” referendum question blocked by a pro-business SJC