So here's the deal. For the first time in over two years your faithful Open Media Boston Editor/Publisher is traveling - in this case through the midwest over the next several days - on the closet thing to a vacation I've had in quite a long time.
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29 May 2009 - 4:55pm
BOSTON/Jamaica Plain - Calling himself a "professional bummer-outer," author and environmental activist Bill McKibben last night described to an audience of about one hundred supporters of the Jamaica Plain based Bikes Not Bombs organization, the monum
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22 May 2009 - 11:45pm
Boston Herald editorial cartoonist Jerry Holbert and bestselling author/artist David Macaulay will be special guests when the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, celebrates Family Day from 1-5p.m. on Saturday, May 30.
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22 May 2009 - 11:08pm
In a completely unsurprising move, the Mass. Senate passed a big hike in the state sales tax from 5% to 6.25% - following on the heels of a recent House vote.
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22 May 2009 - 6:49pm
AN OPEN MEDIA BOSTON INVESTIGATIVE REPORT. Verizon's default wireless security for subscribers to its FiOS Internet and DSL High Speed Internet service has been shown to include several critical security flaws and weaknesses that Verizon phone support agents do not disclose to its customers.
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21 May 2009 - 5:24pm
Medford, MA - On May 11, a group of more than 50 prominent Seventh District constituents sent a letter urging Rep. Ed Markey (D) to co-sponsor HR 676, the national Medicare-for-All bill.
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20 May 2009 - 2:37pm
Workers and homeowners, union members and community activists—all had a reason to march against Bank of America this spring.
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15 May 2009 - 11:41pm
Since the May 8th crash on the Green Line T that injured 50 people - some seriously - and trashed 3 trolley cars, Bostonians have been understandably outraged that the accident was caused because now-fired driver Aidan Quinn was allegedly texting his girlfriend while running a moving vehicle.
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15 May 2009 - 9:06pm
Cambridge, MA - Over 70 people representing a number of human rights organizations gathered next to the Harvard Square T stop yesterday evening for a vigil to protest the continued incarceration of Dr.
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15 May 2009 - 4:42pm
BOSTON/Dorchester - Nearly 60 people demonstrated around the Suffolk County Jail in Boston (known as South Bay House of Corrections) on Sunday in protest of the detention of immigrants in that facility.
