If the B. Globe is going to have any relevance to our daily lives, it will need to focus more on greed and the oligarchy. These are the thru lines in perhaps every news story. Price gouging, etc.
Let’s remember our past as we fight corporations - from insurance to media to “security” and “defense” contractors to airlines - because the people can win together.
American courts are generally showing integrity and sense. We need to stay strong.
As DA, Rollins’ policies were light years ahead of other prosecutors. She had serious lapses in judgment after she left the office. I hope she learned from that.
But for me, the bottom line was that she decreased human misery and measurably so. There is still no other chief prosecutor in Massachusetts with such an evidence-based, smart on crime approach.
WGBH: Rachael Rollins pulls papers to run for Suffolk DA
#MApoli #BosPoli #LawFedi #Massachusetts
https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2026-04-08/rachael-rollins-pulls-papers-to-run-for-suffolk-da
Wu Administration Delays Columbus Ave. Transit Project; City Hall Planners Told to Cancel Meetings With MBTA
A public records request reveals that Boston transportation planners were "directed to not participate in external meetings, ...
So disappointing to see the Mayor continuously pause, stop or roll back on all of these.
#bospoli #BostonMA #publictransportation @mass.streetsblog.org
A public records request reveals that Boston transportation planners were "directed to not participate in external meetings, including meetings with partner agencies, without express approval" from City Hall leadership.
Okay, Beacon Hill. You know election season is here. Some top concerns we have:
CLIMATE
The threat of AI as it's currently (not) defined. (Energy, water cost. Personal data rights...)
Car dependency. We want the freedom to get places without being forced to insure, own, maintain a giant box on wheels.
Housing. Too little. NO to hedge fund, private equity ownership
A secretive State gov that specifically *helps* ICE kidnap our family, colleagues and neighbors 😡
Just me, or is trying to get somewhere in Boston especially hard today? 👎
Like what is going on with the T?
Some councilors say proposed center bus lanes on Blue Hill Avenue are a potential civil-rights violation
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/some-councilors-say-proposed-center-bus-lanes-blue-hill-avenue-are
Some councilors say proposed center bus lanes on Blue Hill Avenue are a potential civil-rights violation
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/some-councilors-say-proposed-center-bus-lanes-blue-hill-avenue-are
if Boston had any heart as a city there'd be more than this weak "strongly worded letter" to keep a T station open so unhoused folks can stay warm in cold weather
#bospoli #homeless #unsheltered
+ free link archived: https://archive.ph/dRUwu
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/12/business/homeless-south-station-winter
RE: https://mastodon.world/@hn100/116042802685003439
I check this periodically and still don't understand why the "typical annual salary" list isn't in order from least to greatest or viceversa
#boston #livingwage #mapoli #bospoli
https://livingwage.mit.edu/metros/14460
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Dave Nathanson
My Boston
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