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Corporate Owners Shrink New Bedford Standard-Times, Literally This Time

April 19, 2015 By thegreenmiles 9 Comments

My local New Bedford Standard-Times has been shrinking for years, laying off nearly half of its newsroom staff since 2005, and now it's again shrinking physically. I woke up a month ago to find my morning paper had lost an inch off each … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: media, new-bedford, newspapers

Our Towns Are Not War Zones: Police Militarization in MA

December 16, 2014 By SamTracy 36 Comments

The debate on police militarization, rumbling for years, has been thrust into the national spotlight after protests in Ferguson, Missouri were met with heavily armed and armored police forces acting more like combatants than peacekeepers. … [Read more...]

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Corporate Profit Drive Squeezes Out New Bedford Standard-Times Editor

December 16, 2014 By thegreenmiles 4 Comments

Local newspapers provide a valuable public service that I want to support. But how many newsroom layoffs does it take to make subscription fees feel more like a corporate subsidy than a common good? Bob Unger, universally respected … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: media, new-bedford

How Baker’s Fish Tale Exposed Democrats’ “Us Too” Fishing Failure

December 4, 2014 By thegreenmiles 16 Comments

Charlie Baker deserved every bit of mockery he got in the final days of the governor's race for making up his fish tale either in part or in whole. But whether it's true or not, Baker's attempt to position himself as one of the harvesters … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: charlie-baker, fishing, gloucester, new-bedford

It’s OK To Hit Pedestrians As Long As You’re Not Paying Attention

June 12, 2014 By thegreenmiles 11 Comments

Via NewBedfordGuide.com Exactly how much leeway should drivers get when they hit a person trying to cross the street? [New Bedford Police Det. Capt. Steven] Vicente said the victim was heading west from Tedeschi's and across Brock … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: new-bedford, pedestrian safety, transportation

New Bedford Wind Energy Plan Would Save Taxpayers $20 Million

April 23, 2014 By thegreenmiles 29 Comments

UPDATE 4/25: The New Bedford City Council briefly threatened to turn an easy touchdown into a fumble, but they managed to approve the contract. A proposed wind power contract for New Bedford isn't just feel-good - it's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: energy, environment, new-bedford, wind-energy

Immigration, Transit Policies Fail New Bedford Workers

February 16, 2014 By thegreenmiles 1 Comment

New Bedford's fish processing plants pay workers low wages for dangerous work, employing many undocumented workers. The plants are located on the waterfront downtown, but there's little housing there, so many workers live in the … [Read more...]

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Did You Feel Today’s Tiny SouthCoast Quake?

January 9, 2014 By thegreenmiles 1 Comment

A very small earthquake centered just north of New Bedford gently shook the SouthCoast region at 10:52am today. I happened to be doing some work in our utility room here in Fairhaven, MA and felt the 1.9 magnitude quake give the floor a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: earthquakes, fairhaven, new-bedford

GOP’s Race War Still Dividing the Working Class

December 5, 2013 By thegreenmiles Leave a Comment

From Richard Nixon's efforts to divide poor whites & blacks to Ronald Reagan's open "Cadillac welfare queens" race-baiting to the Romney/Ryan 47% and makers/takers, using race to divide working-class whites from working-class blacks has … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: new-bedford, poverty, race, racism

Not One But Two Oil Spills Foul New Bedford Harbor

August 30, 2013 By thegreenmiles 1 Comment

I've covered oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico and in Arkansas, but today the oil came to me. Thursday morning a local journalist alerted me to reports of an oil spill right down the street from me in New Bedford Harbor. I headed down and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: energy, environment, new-bedford, oil-spill

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Yikes.

Adam Bass@AdamBassWCCS

The idea of a Pro Life Trump supporter winning Suffolk 19 is not out of the ordinary. Winthrop is particular is much more right leaning that Revere. And Revere got severely out voted. When Capobianco had his story, that left you with two progressives. #mapoli

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.@CDCgov dir. @RWalensky, once part of MA's #COVID19 advsy board, said

"Now is not the time to relax the critical safeguards that we know can stop the spread of COVID-19 ... not when we are so close."

But @MassGovernor pushes to reopen.

Who is advising Gov. Baker now?

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JoeCurtatoneJoseph A. Curtatone@JoeCurtatone·
1 Mar

It's time to state outright that Charlie Baker's science advisory team is the Chamber of Commerce. That's why we were slow to act last year, why our public health network got ignored on vaccines & why our reopenings have flown in the face of data, expert advice & common sense. https://twitter.com/MikeConnollyMA/status/1366423893276303364

Mike Connolly@MikeConnollyMA

Just reiterating my COVID philosophy: Instead of bucking advice from the CDC and Dr. Fauci (by further reopening the Mass. economy), we should #TaxTheRich and use the new revenue to provide cash relief to people in need and small businesses while also investing in health equity.

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He’s running

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Mayor Joe Curtatone announces this is his final year as mayor of Somerville. @WBUR

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blkahnBrian Kahn@blkahn·
28 Feb

A Rhode Island-sized piece of ice just broke of Antarctica. The video of the breach in a 500-foot thick Brunt Ice Shelf is absolutely staggering

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