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Call NOW: The MA Senate re-takes up reform legislation debate at 11am today

July 13, 2020 By Charley on the MTA 1 Comment

Sorry for the radio silence. I've had ... a lot going on. Will say more later. Too long, didn't read: The MA Senate has created a police reform bill called the Reform, Shift, + Build Act. Among many other needed reforms*, it includes an … [Read more...]

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“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”?

July 4, 2020 By Charley on the MTA 6 Comments

Frederick Douglass Harper's Weekly cover

This seems like an appropriate time to refrain from the usual nod to jingoism -- the NPR voices reading the Declaration of Independence, for instance -- and to state plainly again that the work of self-determination, celebrated on behalf of … [Read more...]

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State Rep candidate (Revere, Saugus, Chelsea) Joe Gravellese talks to BMG

July 4, 2020 By Charley on the MTA 2 Comments

Well, this is one of the longer things you’ll see on BMG. I hope you’ll agree it’s also very much worth it. At jconway’s suggestion, I reached out to State Rep candidate Joe Gravellese, who is running in the 16th Suffolk district — … [Read more...]

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Underfunding the Student Opportunity Act is racism

June 26, 2020 By Charley on the MTA 12 Comments

In the last month, seemingly every Massachusetts political establishment leader has made a statement against racism. The MA House has just passed a bill making Juneteenth a state holiday. Good for us, let’s pat ourselves on the … [Read more...]

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What is police work? And how much should we pay for it?

June 19, 2020 By Charley on the MTA 31 Comments

Happy Juneteenth to everyone. It's wild that we seem to have just discovered this "holiday", but in any event, I strongly support replacing Columbus Day – or our "Evacuation Day", heh – with this day. Today is real. In other news ... I … [Read more...]

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What is the Green New Deal? A life raft between COVID-19 and a future that isn’t hell

June 17, 2020 By Charley on the MTA 3 Comments

In recovering from the COVID-19 devastation, we are at a fork in the road. The economic need for heavy government investment is more stark than ever; and the choices that we make for rebuilding -- green or "brown" – will determine whether … [Read more...]

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Markey/Kennedy duel continues to show emptiness of Joe Kennedy’s challenge

June 10, 2020 By Charley on the MTA 14 Comments

We've been saying it here since forever; Charlie Pierce told us in February; nothing has changed since then, except that the conventional wisdom seems to be crystallizing: Joe Kennedy has no real reason to run for Senate. He's failing the … [Read more...]

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The $300,000 club: Mass. ACLU runs the numbers on police spending in Boston

June 9, 2020 By Charley on the MTA 59 Comments

The Boston Police Department budget is absolutely massive, dwarfing every other department other than schools. ACLU Massachusetts lays it all out in a series of charts.  These numbers have always been public knowledge. It's just that now, … [Read more...]

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“Irredeemably beyond repair”: It’s long past time for police accountability, and a culture shift

June 5, 2020 By Charley on the MTA 21 Comments

In a context of no accountability from the top, a "Law and Order" President who encourages police rioting, police in cities across the country have been exacerbating violence with a warrior mindset and military-style equipment, abusing … [Read more...]

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Viciousness and white spaces

June 1, 2020 By Charley on the MTA 5 Comments

It's been a hell of a weekend. I wish everyone safety -- and if it's too late for that, a fast recovery. I'm still trying to process the events, in Boston and Minneapolis and DC and New York and Louisville ... Let's take a moment to … [Read more...]

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Ride home tonight via an inland route, with a stop @sweetgreen. The improvements to cycling infrastructure on Tremont and around the Boston Common and Public Garden vs. what was there a year ago are incredible. Bravo to @BostonBTD + groups like @bostonbikeunion! (1 of 2) #bospoli

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"Downing sees evidence of inequities every time he drops his son off at daycare -I know that (he) will get more opportunities than many kids in his classroom b/c ... of different racial background, different ethnic background ... That's wrong" https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/03/04/ben-downing-gubernatorial-race-candicacy-baker #mapoli

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3 Mar

When Scott Brown won in January 2010, Alan Khazei told us, “you can’t read too much into it. It’s a special election!”

Bad result but good to keep in mind.

Stephanie Murray@stephanie_murr

Looks like JEFF TURCO wins the race to replace former House Speaker Robert DeLeo in the 19th Suffolk District. JUAN PABLO JARAMILLO comes in second by just under 300 votes.

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3 Mar

Yikes.

Adam Bass@AdamBassWCCS

The idea of a Pro Life Trump supporter winning Suffolk 19 is not out of the ordinary. Winthrop is particular is much more right leaning that Revere. And Revere got severely out voted. When Capobianco had his story, that left you with two progressives. #mapoli

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Jo_ComerfordJo Comerford@Jo_Comerford·
2 Mar

.@CDCgov dir. @RWalensky, once part of MA's #COVID19 advsy board, said

"Now is not the time to relax the critical safeguards that we know can stop the spread of COVID-19 ... not when we are so close."

But @MassGovernor pushes to reopen.

Who is advising Gov. Baker now?

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