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Patronage Over Policy: Why Proposed Project is Bad News for the Waterfront

July 21, 2016 By CLF

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, Boston harbor, Boston Redevelopment Authority, CLF, climate resilience, climate-change, Conservation Law Foundation, Harborwalk, Mayor Walsh, south-boston, The Cronin Group, waterfront development

Who is Marty Walsh?

March 8, 2016 By jamaicaplainiac

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

Energy Model of Boston

February 26, 2016 By gmoke

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, cambridge, climatechange, ecology, energy, EnergyEfficiency, environment, green, mit, UrbanDesign

State of the City: Take to the Street

January 18, 2016 By jamaicaplainiac

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

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

Demonstrate Solar IS Civil Defense at the Boston Climate Defense Carnival

November 30, 2015 By gmoke

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 350CT, 350MA, 350NH, 350VT, boston, carnival, civil-defense, climate, democracy, emergency preparedness, green, Paris, resilience, solar

Boston Compact: Charters Reject Choice

November 16, 2015 By jamaicaplainiac

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

College Dems Kick Off Semester at the Boston/Eastern Region Event

September 30, 2015 By CollegeDemsOfMA

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: black lives matter, boston, CDM, college-democrats, ydm, young-democrats

Backfilling: The Solution to Charter School Waiting Lists

August 26, 2015 By jamaicaplainiac

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

Report of the MIT Climate Change Conversation

July 12, 2015 By gmoke

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, cambridge, climate-change, energy, environment, mit

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