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Rep. Connolly puts together a housing agenda

April 9, 2020 By Charley on the MTA Leave a Comment

I mentioned the other day the foreclosure and eviction moratorium legislation that has passed the House. State Rep. Mike Connolly is putting together a coalition for a whole host of actions, at https://rentfreeze.org. ProgressiveMass is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: COVID-19, COVID19, housing, mortgage, renters

Genuinely hopeful news on housing

December 19, 2017 By Charley on the MTA 15 Comments

We've been writing here about the cost and shortage of housing in Greater Boston for over a decade. This actually sounds like hopeful news: Aiming for the construction of 135,000 new housing units by 2025, the Baker administration on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: charlie-baker, housing, smart-growth

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

Can’t Solve Transportation Without Addressing Housing

April 27, 2016 By thegreenmiles 64 Comments

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

Getting to Net Zero: Cambridge, MA

March 26, 2015 By gmoke Leave a Comment

For the past year, the Cambridge, MA city government has had a Getting to Net Zero Task Force studying the implications of a net zero energy building requirement. They finished the draft report on March 16, 2015 and will have an open forum … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: architecture, cambridge, construction, district heating, ecology, electricity, energy, energy efficiency, environment, housing, ma, municipal government, net zero emissions, net zero energy, renewable, solar

Governor candidates on transportation and smart growth

August 13, 2014 By joshostroff 6 Comments

Transportation for Massachusetts and the MA Smart Growth Alliance asked the Democratic, Republican and Independent candidates for governor to respond to ten questions.  The questions were submitted in late May, and received in June/July.  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: environment, governor, housing, massachusetts, smart-growth, transportation

Weatherization Barnraising: Cambridge, MA on April 10

March 22, 2010 By gmoke 2 Comments

Weatherization Barnraising Saturday, April 10th 12:30-5:00 p.m. Cambridge YWCA Emergency Family Shelter 3 Bigelow Street, Cambridge Pitch in to help 10 homeless families who live at the shelter Lower vast energy bills for the shelter so it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate-change, energy, heat, heet, housing, jobs, solar, somerville, weatherization

Weatherization Party

January 24, 2010 By gmoke 5 Comments

Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative in NH has done 115 solar installations in the last few years. Seacoast Area Renewable Energy Initiative in the Piscataqua region on Maine and NH has begun doing solar barnraisings. Coop Power in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate-change, energy, heat, heet, housing, jobs, massachusetts, solar, somerville, weatherization

Why we are losing population – and what we can do about it!

October 31, 2009 By AmberPaw 8 Comments

On October 27, 2009 Prof. Barry Bluestone  gave a pre-release presentation of the Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2009 As part of that presentation, Prof. Bluestone stated that the United States is in the midst of a third - but … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barry-bluestone, boston, homelessness, housing, owners, renters, third-civil-war

Governor – Have the courage to hire and to house!

October 18, 2009 By AmberPaw 21 Comments

Why jobs?  First, the courageous path is not firing 2000 workers but ensuring more workers are hired.  For every state or corporate worker fired, from 20-100 families hunker down and go into bunker mentality.  What do I mean … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: economic-recovery, foreclosure, franklin-roosevelt, governor-patrick, housing, jobs, recovery

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Look, people confused Charlie Baker "not being Donald Trump" with "trustworthy verging on infallible."

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“Utter breakdown ... *it’s just not okay*” [emphasis original]

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Earlier, I spoke at the #MACOVIDOversight hearing and voiced my concerns & the concerns of my colleagues and constituents. I then asked @MassGovernor what I believe was a straightforward question...and received a not-so-straightforward response.

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In 2014, I was a clerk for the ME legislature's enviro committee and I'm flabbergasted by the arguments by progressive Reps (many of whom I respect) against making committee votes and testimony public. /1 #mapoli @act_on_mass @byChrisVan @statehousenews
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