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New Leadership For Boston: Tito Jackson For Mayor

November 4, 2017 By jamaicaplainiac 22 Comments

(While I’m promoting this post as being of general interest, this shouldn’t be seen as a BMG endorsement in this race - Charley) Boston is at a crossroads. Tuesday's election is fundamentally about what kind of city we want this to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: bospoli, boston, BPS, education, election, housing, marty-walsh, mbta, Tito Jackson

Who is Marty Walsh?

March 8, 2016 By jamaicaplainiac 12 Comments

Just throwing this question out for the comments.  When I voted for him, I thought Marty Walsh was a progressive. But his policies are mostly pro-wealth, anti-regular-people. I heard him speak once. He seemed like a sincere advocate for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, marty-walsh

State of the City: Take to the Street

January 18, 2016 By jamaicaplainiac 5 Comments

In case you haven't seen it elsewhere, I'm putting it here: a bunch of us will be standing in the cold starting tomorrow at 4:30 PM to protest the $50 million proposed budget cuts from the Boston Public Schools' budget.  We don't have the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, Boston Public Schools, education, inequality, injustice, marty-walsh

How the Ed Reform Sausage Gets Made: The Barr Foundation

January 3, 2016 By jamaicaplainiac 10 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Barr Foundation, boston, Boston Plan For Excellence, charter-schools, education, education-reform, The Boston Compact

Boston Compact: Charters Reject Choice

November 16, 2015 By jamaicaplainiac 4 Comments

There are many reasons to be suspicious of The Boston Compact's Unified Enrollment plan, not least of which is that a body that "Chief Collaboration Officer" Rachel Weinstein asserts is "not a public organization" (direct quote from last … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, Boston Compact, charter-schools, education, ELL, special-education

Backfilling: The Solution to Charter School Waiting Lists

August 26, 2015 By jamaicaplainiac 3 Comments

So now the charter school advocates are trying a ballot initiative to raise the charter school cap. Think of the children! Those poor children languishing on the charter school waiting lists! I know from personal experience that there's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: backfill, ballot-initiative, boston, charter school cap, charter-schools, education, massachusetts

Blanchard’s, racial profiling,and the problem with internet activism

August 11, 2015 By jamaicaplainiac 28 Comments

I have no financial interest in Blanchard's, other than the fact that I spend money there. Just saw this today, amid a Twitter storm of righteous indignation about how terrible this business is and how we should all boycott them. I … [Read more...]

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The Strange Death of Burrell Ramsey-White

April 22, 2015 By jamaicaplainiac 3 Comments

Given everything we've seen in recent months about police killing black men and then lying about it, I thought I would revisit an event in Boston that caught my eye a few years ago: the killing of Burrell Ramsey-White. At the time, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, boston-police, Burrell Ramsey-White, deval-patrick, massachusetts, police

Lifting the Charter School Cap: A Look at the Numbers

March 9, 2015 By jamaicaplainiac 4 Comments

I read this story about a civil rights lawsuit being used as an end-run around the legislature and their increasingly-skeptical constituents to raise the charter school cap. I decided to put my feelings aside and take a hard look at the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: charter-schools, civil-rights, education, marty-walsh, public-education

My Education Platform

July 7, 2014 By jamaicaplainiac 1 Comment

I scoured the websites of all the Massachusetts gubernatorial candidates and could not find one that matched my agenda. So I wrote one.  Enjoy! Quality Education for Massachusetts. Massacusetts deserves educational equality.  For too long … [Read more...]

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teapartyusa1 Chris Lynch @teapartyusa1 ·
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A white nationalist neo-fascists group marched through #Boston July 4th weekend. Which one, no not Proud Boys or Oath Keepers indicted for seditious conspiracy, a spinoff of a group at Charlottesville unite the right rally https://theintercept.com/2022/06/17/jan-6-hearings-right-wing-white-nationalists/ #MaPoli #BosPoli

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Max Berger @maxberger

A mass shooting on the 4th of July in Philadelphia with fireworks in the background a few hours after a mass shooting in a Jewish suburb by a Trump supporter really adds to the rising fascism vibes.

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wockerjabb AliceCarrol @wockerjabb ·
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massdems @UsCongressnews1 @USCongress @bostonpolice, our elected did nothing to stop this from happening. It's a National Gang Hangout Now.#mapoli #disinvestement

AliceCarrol @wockerjabb

@AndreaForAG,@RepPressley
Campbells former district and Pressley current one #gang, #bospoli
Four shot outside Ashmont T station https://www.universalhub.com/crime/20220704/three-shot-outside-ashmont-t-station

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ericagurl147 ERICA @ericagurl147 ·
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WOW @MayorWu look at the GREAT 👀 example you’re setting to your peers… now they dont have to answer or acknowledge constituents.. you people must not want to be re-elected! #bospoli #mapoli #scum #SCREWWU #WuTrainWreck

Owner @nkboston12

The councilor blocks me because I question the tweets she posts or deletes. Never once did I use profanity or derogatory terms. Some of the posts she’s made legitimize radical actions or groups. I wonder if she realizes the pendulum swings “left” and “right?” #bospoli @Tania4D7

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carolineforma5 Caroline Colarusso @carolineforma5 ·
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I’m Republican Caroline Colarusso running for Congress in Massachusetts 5th District. Our nation was shaped by the hard work and innovation of free individuals. Americans built this nation, not government. I’m asking for your vote this November. #america #usa #republican #mapoli

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mainenewshound mainenewshound @mainenewshound ·
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🚨Breaking--Violent 4th July Holiday in Boston
'"'July 4th Boston Mass. met with burst of violence in Boston: 10 people shot at 7 locations in the city'"
--Boston Herald, 8PM
#mepolitics #breaking #massachusetts #mapoli

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lowellcouncilor Darius Mitchell_ Massachusetts Governor 2022 🇺🇸 @lowellcouncilor ·
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We gonna start calling AMERICA 🇺🇸..

“JOE BIDEN’S PLANTATION SHOW!”

THAT’S WHAT JOE HAS TURNED..

AMERICA 🇺🇸 INTO! A PLANTATION!

WHO DOES JOE BIDEN ANSWER TO?

CONGRESS, THE DEMOCRAT PARTY?

THE AMERICAN 🇺🇸 PEOPLE? WHO?

THE MEDIA? RED CHINA 🇨🇳?

#MAPOLI #BOSPOLI #NHPOLITICS

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