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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

December 5, 2018 By JASON PRAMAS

FAIR HOUSING WHACKED: TUFTS STUDENTS FIGHT ADMIN PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH “CLASSIST” DORM SYSTEM

Tufts students march against tiered housing policy. Photo by Amira Al-Subaey, Tufts class of 2019.

  More than 200 Tufts University students, faculty, and allies from surrounding communities held a march and demonstration last week to protest a new campus housing policy, according to the Boston Herald. Over the summer, the Tufts administration announced that its annual lottery system for on-campus housing during each academic year would be heavily modified […]

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Column, development, dorm, gentrification, government, higher education, housing, Jason Pramas, news, politics, pricing, private, protest, public, Real Estate, Student, tufts

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

August 7, 2018 By JASON PRAMAS

GREENFIELD BLUES

Homelessness is not just a big-city problem in Mass

Filed Under: Columns, Townie Tagged With: Column, economy, encampment, Greenfield, Health, healthcare, Homeless, homelessness, housing, Jason Pramas, jobs, Mayor William Martin, news, opiates, policy, politics, poor, poverty, public, TOWNIE, Western Massachusetts

July 31, 2018 By JASON PRAMAS

POPULAR NOT POPULIST

Governor Baker continues to poll well with people he’s screwing

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Budget, children, Column, corporation, cuts, democracy, economy, general court, Gov Charlie Baker, Jason Pramas, legislature, Massachusetts, news, politics, poor, poverty, public, rich, SSI, veto, wealthy, welfare

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