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Outdoor author + urban trail creator @NatGeo @BostonGlobe @WBUR @NewRepublic @BostonMagazine | he/him | I founded the Walking City Trail of Boston | Views: Mine
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Boston: I'm leading an urban hike tomorrow night, on the north waters of the Charles. We'll meet by North Station at 6pm, cross the locks, visit the Miller's River Basin and the Potato Monument under I-93, and make our way to North Point Park!
RSVP here
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Wait, you mean prospective students *don’t* like the idea of enrolling at a college where the administration will stand back as the local police beat the shit out of you for sitting in a public alleyway? 🤯
Emerson College says enrollment down significantly after "negative" reaction to student protests; layoffs planned
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Free N95 masks, free rapid tests, paid sick leave for all workers, and economic relief for small businesses would buy the Biden administration and the Democratic Party a lot of goodwill. But hey, good luck running on the "personal responsibility" pandemic approach later this year
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Rent is underappreciated as an issue that drives young voters. What's wild about the current rent surge across the U.S. is how it's not even being acknowledged by the gerontocracy (who clearly don't concern themselves with such things.)
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I don’t ever want to hear another word about “dignity of work” from a bunch of politicians who went on a month-long vacation during a pandemic and left people to get evicted and go bankrupt
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Reminder: we could put him in the White House
.
@BernieSanders
ON FIRE on the Senate floor: "And now I find that some of my Republican colleagues are very distressed they're very upset that somebody is making $10-$12 bucks an hour might end up with a paycheck for four months more than they received last week...
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“A repulsive thing was said on campus, and that’s why we roughed up and arrested the group that didn’t say the repulsive thing.”
College administrators have lost their minds. We’re watching a meltdown.
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America's political leadership are a bunch of old people who own property and are becoming spooked by bad polling with young voters who are mostly renters and are trying to keep up with astronomic rent hikes. Huh. I wonder why those polls are bad!
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In most states, this would just be standing on a beach. But in Massachusetts, it’s standing on a beach *and* trespassing because we still have colonial era laws that allow ridiculous things like private ownership of the intertidal zone 🙃
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This might be the creepiest statement from a university yet. The way it highlights the sunny weather and resumption of admission tours, right after the student protesters have been disappeared. You can’t help but imagine some polished administrator saying this with a Rictus grin.
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@SenTinaSmith
Okay...let me ask you this: Why are Senate Democrats not disrupting the hell out of these proceedings? If it's so insane, don't just log on and vent to us: DO SOMETHING.
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If you watched AOC's IG Live feed tonight, please call your elected officials, Pelosi, Schumer, etc. first thing tomorrow. Demand accountability for the Republicans who helped incite the Capitol storming. This has to be dealt with. We can't just "move on" like we did in 2009.
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“Son of billionaire” should be an instant disqualifier for elected office
Insiders say Josh Kraft, the younger son of billionaire New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, is actively considering making a run against Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.
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What’s noteworthy here is how the BPD attribute the mass arrests to the “camping ban” that the Wu administration introduced last year and the city council voted for. It was a bad policy when wielded against unhoused people and it’s now being wielded against student demonstrators.
Boston police forcibly remove Emerson pro-Palestinian tent encampment, at least 100 arrested
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Putting Mayor Pete in charge of public transit at a time when we’re facing a public transit crisis is deeply unserious. Transit is not a sandbox for campaign allies to play in. It’s one the most vital and life-shaping utilities in America today. It deserves an experienced leader.
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“I want the country to know that if I end up on that ICU bed, it is because I was not given a hazmat suit or enough PPE to protect me. I want the country to know that America has failed its people”
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Boston nightmare: heading to Jamaica Pond after dark, sitting on a bench, lighting a joint, and the flame of the lighter reveals all of the Canada geese surrounding the bench, just watching you
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Get him onto the Orange Line shuttle
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These little-known stairs to a Boston high point are part of the Walking City Trail, which “launches” on June 16th with a dedicated website where you can find free maps and directions for hiking this 25 mile trail across Boston’s parks and urban wilds.
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I’m not sure how it took me nearly 20 years to discover the simple trick for going from Boston to NY when Amtrak prices are bonkers. 2-hour bus ride to New Haven. 2-hour MTA train to Grand Central. 40-ish bucks total. I love the northeast corridor.
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Just think about all the debt that people are accumulating right now. Back rent, credit cards, missed mortgage payments, student loans, you name it. Absolute lunacy to think you can restore civil society without giving people substantial money and releasing them from these debts.
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Why are nocturnal coffee/tea shops and lounges not a thing in Boston? Most cities have these, we don’t, and people here are finally starting to ask questions.
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In New Hampshire, you get 80% of the same scenery as Vermont, but the saccharine charm is replaced by brooding anxiety.
vermont, as a state, is entirely too charming. every town has a little general store with the old coke sign. every house has a red barn surrounded by sunflower fields and raspberries and shit. there are one million "honor system" farm stands. where do they get the nerve
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The most Massachusetts thing about JAWS is that the mayor who keeps all the beaches open is still the mayor in JAWS 2
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Every time I get one of these “COVID RATES ARE RISING” texts from the state of Massachusetts, I imagine what it would be like if fire departments just sent you texts saying “YOUR HOUSE IS BURNING” instead of marshaling the resources to extinguish the fire.
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Having the police beat and arrest over 100 students peacefully protesting the bombardment of Gaza by staging a tent encampment in a city-managed *alleyway* is an absurd use of force and resources. The Wu administration needs to answer for what happened at Emerson last night.
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Yesterday I went for an 8 mile hike through the urban forests and lesser known green spaces of Mattapan, Hyde Park, and Roslindale. This was the first leg of a 25 mile urban trail through Boston that I'm currently mapping and scouting, and it was phenomenal. Some highlights... 1/
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If you live in Massachusetts, this thread is for you:
Our eviction moratorium expires in 1 week. There's a bill in the House that would stop the resultant homelessness crisis. In this thread, I'll cover why that bill is crucial, why it hasn't been passed, and what we can do.
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"Dignity of work" is a sham. It's an idea that rich people use to manipulate the rest of us into working ourselves to death and thinking it's virtuous. Politicians love to talk about dignity of work because it keeps most of us in line
I wrote about this:
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If the Massachusetts DOT announced a month-long shutdown of a single lane on I-93, lawmakers would be bending over backwards to offer supports for drivers impacted by the closure. We need to force them to make transit riders whole, given the disruptions of the coming MBTA closure
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I’m sorry but Massachusetts putting billboards in Texas and Florida that highlight our state’s LGBTQI+ friendly environment (as part of a tourism campaign) feels like self-satisfied flexing in the face of people who are in danger and in many cases, unable to afford relocating.
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Today's the day, folks.
I'd like you to meet the WALKING CITY TRAIL: a 25-mile hike through Boston's parks and urban woodlands. The trail is divided into four sections that are accessible by public transit.
Here's where the trail will take you....
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Please, please be extra cool to the MBTA workers today, tomorrow, and the next few weeks. They're on the front lines of addressing problems created by politicians who don't even ride the T.
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Massachusetts will no longer be governed by a sentient frat house paddle. Big night.
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Just my opinion, as a Massachusetts resident, but when you have families with babies sleeping on the streets at night because the governor enacted a new 5-day limit for staying in shelters, you might not be a “commonwealth”
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Boston: If your idea of a perfect late summer evening is studying for the LSAT and then roller blading to a friend’s house to saw some wood, consider swinging by Thomas Street in Jamaica Plain ASAP.
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@LisaBloom
A “mistake” is hitting a rock while driving on a country road. Causing further pain to victims of rape and assault, knowingly, is monstrous.
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What
@FacesOfCOVID
has been doing over the last several months is invaluable. When this pandemic is over, it will be way too easy to disengage with the stories behind the death toll numbers. Telling those stories may be our best shot at an equitable recovery...and accountability.
CAROLA MONTERO, 46 of Portland, Oregon died of COVID on Dec. 6.
She worked at a local hospital, and leaves behind her husband and four kids.
“I would honestly say my mom was my best friend and I miss her every day.”
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To ring in the Fourth of July, I'm going for a midday hike on this little-known pathway through the backyards of mansions in Brookline. The rich people who live there try to keep the path hidden but it's open to the public from dawn to dusk. I'll post photos and a trail map soon.
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This is fundamentalist psycho shit
Ohio governor signs bill requiring women to choose burial or cremation of aborted fetal tissue
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Just got word via WBUR that the Massachusetts tax refunds are going out today. An average refund of $9 for the poorest 20% of states while people making over $1 million get an average of $22,000? Fuck this shit. Vote yes on Question 1. Tax the rich. This is getting absurd
#mapoli
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Footnote: Gerontocracy does not mean all older people. It means a government run by and for a consortium of older people. In this case, older people who own property
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Any day on which a baby whale is present in Boston Harbor should be a work holiday, and the mayor should be posted on the Castle Island jetty so that when the whale jumps over the jetty, the two can share a hand-to-fin moment a la Free Willy.
Ferry service may experience minor delays through tomorrow, August 15, due to the presence of a juvenile humpback whale in Boston Harbor.
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@RadioFreeTom
Given the demographics that appear to have tipped the scales for Biden in Georgia, you might want to reconsider this take, my man.
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Every few years we ask some variation of “how to make Boston more fun.” While there are licensing reforms that could help, a huge part of the answer is always going to be “make it affordable for working class people to live in Boston.” People who create fun are mostly underpaid.
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It’s such a weird feeling to be sitting on a porch in Boston at 8pm, as the last glimmers of daylight fade away, totally coated in sweat because the dew point is 10,000%
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Between the Sumner Tunnel closure in Boston and the I-95 collapse in Philly, the dead-end nature of car centric planning is on full display right now. To the point where transit authorities are urging people to take the trains and buses our government has under-funded for decades
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I realize there’s a lot going on, but it’s wild how unemployment money and evictions have basically vanished from the discourse
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If you’re really this determined to fire up young voters without making any concessions on healthcare or climate change, just say, “It’s Biden or fascism.” At least that’s honest. This kind of infantilism shit is embarrassing and insulting. It will more likely repel youth voters.
One progressive group's strategy to help Biden appeal to young voters: promote him as part of a group of "Democratic Avengers,"
@olgakhazan
reports:
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The notion that Massachusetts’ favorite food chain is Boston Market renders this map illegitimate
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I know lots of people in Boston are traumatized from Snowmageddon 2015 (I was here then: it was rough) but I do think the transition from snow to rain has made winters here harder to endure. You can do stuff with snow. And it’s pretty in an Enya sort of way. Cold rain is ...bleak
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What is the point of playing by the rules and honoring the decree of this rotten court when several of the judges lied straight-faced to the Senate during their confirmation hearings when asked about whether they would vote to overturn Roe?
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A little personal news, as they say.
In a rare synergy between work and poking around, I am going to be walking the entire 93-ish mile perimeter of Boston over the next two weeks. And I will be writing a story about it.
(And yes, I will be completely bypassing Brookline.)
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The Massachusetts millionaire's tax is being rightly picked up by national news media as a success story, and the fact that our governor and top legislators have basically tried to undo that tax with rebates for the rich really illustrates the need for more competitive primaries.
Another way that Massachusetts’ millionaire tax is making MA more affordable for ordinary people: one of the many things funded by this revenue is universal free school meals, which it turns out, also brings down price pressures on retail groceries.
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It really feels like this is the week when people are realizing that Charlie Baker is a bad governor.
#mapoli
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Said it before and I’ll say it again.
Massachusetts has an overlooked conservative streak, and it reveals itself like a rabid raccoon emerging from under your back porch whenever you suggest building more housing.
There are other triggers, but this one is the ultimate.
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I’m loving the implicit gasp of this cruise diversion story: the idea that real human beings actually had to suffer the desolation, squalor, and horror of suddenly finding themselves in Boston.
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This is partly why I'm a big admirer of THE LIGHTHOUSE and MANCHESTER BY THE SEA. Very few movies even bother trying to capture the misery and horror of Massachusetts' coastal ambience, and these two films nail it, in their own ways.
I would really love for Boston or MA to occasionally be represented with a piece of pop culture that isn’t a shitty coffee or that Dropkick Murphys song
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The rhetorical distance between 2019 Warren and early 2020 Warren is really quite sad to see
No one should attack
@Culinary226
and its members for fighting hard for themselves and their families. Like them, I want to see every American get high-quality and affordable health care—and I’m committed to working with them to achieve that goal.
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Every mayor choosing to unleash militarized police upon student protesters is helping to normalize this kind of repression. We're seeing it in extreme form tonight at Columbia. We saw it last week in Boston at Emerson and Northeastern. This is so dangerous. We should be outraged.
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It's really absurd that Massachusetts holds the primaries for local elections on the Tuesday after Labor Day. Like, there's zero logical argument for doing this, other than suppressing voter turnout for the benefit of fossilized incumbents. It should be held much earlier.
#mapoli
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So let’s nationalize it...?
U.S. health insurance premiums could increase as much as 40% next year if the coronavirus pandemic results in millions of Americans needing hospital stays, a new analysis warns
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So, it turns out there's a way to get from Boston to Washington DC using only public transportation and I'm thinking of doing it. Takes 4 days.
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For
@BostonGlobe
, I wrote about digging up lost rivers that have been buried beneath cities for decades.
This is called "daylighting."
It can rejuvenate green spaces *and* protect neighborhoods from flooding, as climate change produces nastier storms.
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I do hope that what’s happened at the Boston student demonstrations these last few days is a wake-up call for people who don’t realize how much the City of Boston has doubled down on unaccountable policing in the last few years.
All in the name of “public safety.”
But for whom?
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I criticize Boston a lot and to be sure, there is a lot that needs to change in this city. But the walkability of Boston is really something. I’ve been to a lot of U.S. cities and being able to walk pretty much anywhere is nothing to take for granted. I hope we can build on this!
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If there are concerns about safety in the downtown area of a city, one of the best things that you can do is encourage more activity downtown with local events and activations. And one of the worst things you can do is shut down activity in the area. (This is a Boston subtweet.)
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The Massachusetts vaccine signup system is useless right now, even if you make it to a page where you begin to fill out the appointment form. I recommend stepping away from the computer, having some tea, and committing to replace Charlie Baker at the soonest available opportunity
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As a journalist covering cities and rural areas, I can say without doubt that the transportation crisis in Boston is worse than anything I've experienced in recent memory. Neglected infrastructure, horrific traffic, fare hikes, and clueless state leadership. It's madness.
#mapoli
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Most people don’t care about bipartisanship. They care about shit working. Get rid of the filibuster. It’s an impediment to recovery.
Key moderate Republicans in the Senate dismiss quick action on President Biden's top priority of a $1.9T economic package, indicating that the $1,400 stimulus payments Biden requested could take months, or never arrive. -
@sahilkapur
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A lot of rich people don’t understand how strikes work and some of them become increasingly erratic as they start to grasp the limitations of their power when there’s a strike happening. Like, what does this parent expect the state to do? Frog march the teachers back into school?
UPDATE: Newton parent files court motion to stop teachers strike as it enters its 8th day on Tuesday
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When you arrive at the beer garden in downtown Boston at 8:30 PM and they’ve just announced last call for drinks
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The thing with the MBTA is that once in awhile, you get flashes of what life in Greater Boston could be like if our political leaders invested in public services and stopped giving tax breaks to rich people. Made it from JP to the Logan Airport stop in 30 minutes this morning.
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There's been a lot of focus on really bad choices by the MBTA management in the weeks since the Orange Line closure was announced. But IMO, there should be much more emphasis on the fact that the collapse of the MBTA is a political decision made by our state leaders.
#mapoli
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It really should be a much bigger story that Healey and the Massachusetts legislature leaders basically just undid the Fair Share Amendment.
#mapoli
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Massachusetts residents; Fix the T
Mass. politicians: We don’t have the money
*Mass. accrues a surplus*
Mass. residents: Okay now we have the money. Fix the T.
Mass. politicians: We’re giving everyone tax rebates! Especially rich people.
#mapoli
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So I assume the presence of state police at Northeastern arresting student protesters means that this was approved by
@MassGovernor
? Not surprising, given that she’s barely said a word about the mass killing of Palestinian people for the last seven months. But still outrageous.
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Dear liberals and moderates outside of Massachusetts: please stop heaping praise upon our governor, Charlie Baker, for his Covid-19 response. He's reopened things too quickly and this has brought us back to the edge of an "R naught" of 1.0, which is when community spread ramps up
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These Americans didn't "slip" into poverty. They were shoved into it by psychopathic politicians who refused to help people during a pandemic.
8,000,000 Americans slipped into poverty amid coronavirus pandemic, study finds.
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Here is a dilemma that many renters in Massachusetts are going to be facing soon.
“Should we ask our landlord to improve the insulation in the apartment? Or would asking them be risking another rent increase?”
This is why a lot of renters are living in substandard conditions.
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The thing I can’t get over is how Baker assured us, earlier this year, that if Covid cases spiked again and hit a certain threshold, we’d roll back to Phase 2 of reopening.
That threshold was surpassed months ago.
We never went back to Phase 2.
#mapoli
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I’m getting very fed up with this sanctimonious deflection from Baker. Who was it that chose to reopen indoor restaurants, gyms, casinos and other places that propagate the idea that things are back to normal? I’m not absolving irresponsible individuals, but come on, man.
#mapoli
‘A recipe for disaster’: Charlie Baker rips ‘lapses in judgment’ contributing to coronavirus uptick in Massachusetts
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Beneficiaries of nepotism are the last people who should be making aspersions about someone's presumed lack of qualifications for a job.
Meghan McCain: "We’ve only had one Asian American host co-host host this show. Does that mean one of us should be leaving because there’s not enough representation? We're talking about -- is identity politics more important than the qualifications for the job?"
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Context: Biden’s “no federal solution” comment was referring to how states need to implement federal pandemic relief policy. BUT this implies that we have robust federal policies waiting to be implemented by states. We don’t, people know it, and they’re angry.
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I appreciate a lot of what the Wu administration has done, but the deferential approach to policing in this city is severely disappointing and disturbing. I hope others who volunteered and voted for
@wutrain
on the promise of progress are ready to vocally push back against this.
Mayor supports Boston police actions after Emerson encampment arrests | Click on the image to read the full story
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There are some conversations happening at high levels (ie, city hall) about how Boston could be more of a Winter City and personally, I think having more places for people to congregate after standard work hours that aren’t bars would make winter a lot more pleasant here.
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It was an alleyway, Ed.
Public access can’t be blocked. Violations of city ordinances must be addressed. Tents in public right of ways must come down immediately.
#bospoli
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It's ridiculously hard to go to the beach in Massachusetts. So for
@GlobeIdeas
, I wrote about how the state could launch a beach bus program to expand public access to beaches where towns put up barriers like non-resident parking bans.
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Proposal: Send everyone a package that includes rapid tests, N95 masks, and a $5,000 check. Call it a pandemic holiday bonus. Idk. Just do it.
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Shameful. No mayor is great on policing, but the way in which
@wutrain
keeps abetting the BPD and overlooking its well-documented excesses is completely unaccepable.
Mayor Michelle Wu and Police Commissioner Michael Cox made the call to remove the pro-Palestinian tent encampment at Emerson College together, the mayor’s office said amid pushback on the removal of tents and the arrests of more than 100 protestors.
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This is fine BUT here's another idea: We get rid of the limit on liquor licenses altogether, throw a bone to the current license holders, and allow Boston to make decisions about nightlife with full autonomy, like any other city.
Massachusetts lawmakers said they have reached a deal to dramatically expand the number of liquor licenses in Boston, agreeing to add 225 new permits over three years, including many in the city’s underserved neighborhoods.
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This piece by
@MilesKlee
succinctly cuts to the bone of why Mayor Pete is a nightmare for many young people. As someone who wrote a book about today's young voters and the forces that shaped our politics, I'd like to offer some additional words on this. 1/
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Healey is governing like someone who never made a strong case for themselves on the campaign trail because they didn’t have to; because the state party cleared the field for them. Not only is the shelter limit cruel, but it’s wildly lacking in political instinct. Horrific optics.
MA paid $5 million to a consulting firm to tell it how to kick people out of emergency shelter. Just reprehensible.
#mapoli
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The MBTA transit meltdown is the true legacy of Charlie Baker, who came up with the idea saddling our transit authority with highway development debt. It's also the fault of state legislature leaders like Ron Mariano and Karen Spilka, who haven't prioritized operational funding.
MBTA in absolute shambles this morning. Green line shut for construction. Orange and red lines hobbled because of electrical issues at DTX. A joke of a commute.
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At a certain point, Massachusetts liberals either need to get real about who Baker actually is...or stop pretending to be liberal. Electing Republican governors and centrist reps has consequences: like police reform and substantive abortion protections not being passed
#mapoli
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They say you get more conservative with age, but the older I’ve gotten, the harder I’ve found it to accept the lack of winter culture in Greater Boston. It would take a lot of civic investment but we could make these long, dark, freezing months so much prettier and happier.
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All eyes on Northeastern
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