By Deanna Moran Well-connected developers routinely ask regulators to bend and break the rules to maximize building square footage and project profit. The Cronin Group, a well-known Boston-based developer proposing a new mixed-use … [Read more...]
Who is Marty Walsh?
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...]
Energy Model of Boston
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O46GkHSYvYE The Sustainable Design Lab at MIT has built a model which estimates the gas and electricity demand of every building in Boston for every hour of every day of the year, nearly 100,000 … [Read more...]
State of the City: Take to the Street
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...]
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...]
Demonstrate Solar IS Civil Defense at the Boston Climate Defense Carnival
Update: This event has been cancelled as of November 30, 2015. 350 Maine, 350 Vermont, 350 Massachusetts, 350 New Hampshire & 350 Connecticut are organizing a Boston Climate Defense Carnival on Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 3:30pm … [Read more...]
Boston Compact: Charters Reject Choice
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...]
College Dems Kick Off Semester at the Boston/Eastern Region Event
All College Democrats, Young Democrats, and Young-at-heart Democrats are welcome to attend! If you’re looking to meet self-motivated, hard-working CDM members, engage in thoughtful conversation and debate with like-minded progressives, … [Read more...]
Backfilling: The Solution to Charter School Waiting Lists
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...]
Report of the MIT Climate Change Conversation
The Report of the MIT Climate Change Conversation Committee which has been meeting around the campus for the last few months is now available at http://web.mit.edu/vpr/climate/climatereport.html This report is in preparation for a … [Read more...]
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