
What Would Frances Fox Piven Do?
When she found out that a special Legislative “Commission” had, after much public debate and little or no real data had proposed some punitive, unrealistic, unenforceable new laws to limit the use of EBT cards by welfare recipients? She’d say Please Urge Your Representative NOT to Sign Onto the O’Connell-Holmes Impractical, Costly and Unconstitutional EBT Bill. And...

Sen Pat Jehlen on the need for t-a-x-e-s to fix the MBTA
So, Senator Pat Jehlen actually used the word in a State House News Video. In an election year. In the face of solemn promises from Legislative Leaders that there will be no new taxes, not to forstall threatened service cuts and fare increases that seem to be inevitable. So says the Transportation Secretary and the MBTA Acting General...

Which Leaves on this Tree will Fall This Spring?
De Leo’s budget chief, Rep. Brian Dempsey (D-Haverhill), told the News Service that a budget released in April by the House Ways and Means Committee will be balanced primarily with program cuts. The other day, our legislative leaders in the House, namely Speaker De Leo and Chair of Ways and Means Brian Dempsey both acknowledged...

Not just the Disabled are Worried about the MBTA’s Ride — Reading about Interest Rate Swaps
” It’s gray, it’s white, it’s balding, and it’s coming.’’ says Christopher Hart of the Boston’s Institute for Human Centered Design about future users of the MBTA’s Ride. Today Eric Moskowitz wrote in the Globe this morning about a current Ride user profiling Penny Shaw… BRAINTREE – Penny Shaw, a former teacher with a doctorate in French...

Meet the Your MBTA Heroes
Oh to be young and bold again. Susan Blair from the Globe did a terrific job with this series of photos. The super group was created not by a nuclear accident or super serum, but by an organization from Roxbury called the Alternatives for Community & Environment. According group, it aims to empower low income...

Outstanding! 2000 Young People Rally for Summer Jobs
They came from all over the state. Including Lynn. And, after months of prep work and meetings they got a splendid editorial in the Boston Globe (who described the young people as “earnest” a throwback to Tom Winship we think.) MANY BOSTONIANS over the age of 40 can recall the ease of finding summer employment during their...