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Here Are The MA Dems Against Gun Safety

July 27, 2016 By thegreenmiles

Attorney General Maura Healey recently moved to close loopholes in the Massachusetts ban on assault weapons. Gun industry lobbyists called this a secretive mystery plan - who knows what's really in it?? - which was weird considering Healey … [Read more...]

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How Fox Is Unskewing the DNC’s First Night

July 26, 2016 By thegreenmiles

My wife asked me this morning how Republicans were reacting to the showstopping first night of the Democratic National Convention, so I put on my hip waders and set out on a journey to climb BS Mountain visit FoxNews.com. It's a … [Read more...]

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Why Fight For Gas Tax Hikes If They Just Fund Sprawl?

July 11, 2016 By thegreenmiles

Steve LeBlanc writes for the Associated Press today about how Massachusetts uses just a tiny fraction of cigarette taxes for anti-smoking programs. By contrast, he says most of a recent gas tax hike goes for its intended purpose: Drivers … [Read more...]

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Can’t Solve Transportation Without Addressing Housing

April 27, 2016 By thegreenmiles

Charley already wrote up WBUR's transportation poll, but WBUR did a sidebar story on some non-highway transportation ideas. Reporter Steve Brown talked to State Sen. Tom McGee about his idea to relieve traffic & help people get … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: development, environment, housing, smart-growth, transportation, urban-density, urban-sprawl

MA Communities Take 7 Spots on Complete Streets List

April 15, 2016 By thegreenmiles

Smart Growth America has ranked the communities with the best new complete streets policies created & adopted in 2015. Massachusetts took seven of the top 16 spots: 1. Reading, Pennsylvania 2. West Hartford, Connecticut 3. Park … [Read more...]

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11 Reasons We Must Say No to New Fracked Gas Infrastructure

April 5, 2016 By thegreenmiles

With the Massachusetts legislature preparing to take up comprehensive energy legislation, Wall Street-controlled energy companies are pushing hard to include a pipeline tax, allowing them to charge all ratepayers a fee to build new & … [Read more...]

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Asked About Climate Risks, Trump is on to Cincinnati

March 22, 2016 By thegreenmiles

Donald Trump sat down with the Washington Post editorial board and revealed that you don't need to know anything about anything to win the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Trump talked about how if sanctions don't work, you just … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate, climate-change, Donald Trump, global-warming

9 Different Bad Decisions Referred to as “Accident”

March 14, 2016 By thegreenmiles

The #CrashNotAccident movement asks us to stop referring to vehicle collisions as "accidents." A great example of why it's the wrong term to use comes from my local New Bedford Standard-Times, which used "accident" three times in describing … [Read more...]

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Asking GOP to Back Kasich: Like Asking Zombies to Stop Eating Brains

February 26, 2016 By thegreenmiles

Today, the Boston Globe editorial page, which is generally great (except for its support of oil & gas pipelines [but nobody's perfect]), continues its crusade to rob Republican primary voters of the candidate they actually want, Donald … [Read more...]

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“Jaywalking”: Blaming Pedestrians for Badly-Designed Streets

February 16, 2016 By thegreenmiles

If crosswalks are located hundreds of feet from where people need them, or if drivers are going too fast to stop for people in crosswalks, you might think safety improvements are needed. But as State House News Service reports, a Worcester … [Read more...]

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