Meanwhile, there are 50% of the number of inpatient drug treatment beds...there once were. Often the only "treatment bed" for a female opium addict is Framingham Women's Prison. Oh - and 70% of the prison population is mentally ill...but … [Read more...]
Archives for January 3, 2016
Hey John Henry You Cheap Bastard, How About An Extra Grand For The Pawn/Workers Who “Volunteered” to Deliver Your Cruddy Paper?
Really dude, cough up a few bucks will ya. Take it out of Linda's checking account, she won't notice. How many people worked for nothing last night? NOTHING! NATCH! NADA! Why were they volunteering? Oh right, Pedro from … [Read more...]
How the Ed Reform Sausage Gets Made: The Barr Foundation
I had hoped to write a big ol' primer on the Walsh Administration's plan to charterize the Boston Public Schools. But it's hard for me to write coherently about something that makes me so angry, and, anyway, anything I wrote would basically … [Read more...]
Boston Globe Suddenly Bad at Delivering Boston Globe (Updated)
Does anybody know what just happened at the Boston Globe? This morning Globe union staff, including news reporters & photojournalists, have been out helping deliver papers. As Craig Douglas reports for Boston Business Journal, it comes … [Read more...]