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SNN: Community Benefits Agreement at Risk?

10 February 2015 - 11:37pm | Somerville Neig...
by Iris Moore and Jane Regan, Somerville Neighborhood News

Somerville, Mass. – The Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) that will be negotiated between City Hall and Union Square developer US2 runs the risk of being less than effective in delivering advantages to city residents, according to studies, critics and to a Tufts university professor familiar with CBAs.

News Analysis: The Full Facts on Public Sector Pay in Massachusetts

26 February 2013 - 1:27am | jadams
by Jonathan Adams

A perennial target of their detractors, Massachusetts state public sector workers are no strangers to having their salaries scrutinized. Attention often focuses on the top pay received by a few in chief public sector jobs, but what about the vast majority of employees who are working hard and don’t earn the big bucks? Open Media Boston brings you the full facts in a snapshot of state public sector pay in 2012.

OMB Audio: What's At Stake: The 2012 Elections And The Left

4 November 2012 - 3:39pm | RadioView
by Dave Goodman (I.B.I.S. Radio)

The upcoming presidential election poses some interesting questions for progressives in Massachusetts. The ongoing war in Afghanistan - including the use of unmanned drones that often kill civilians – and the inability or unwillingness to stand up to corporate lobbyists eager to roll back government regulations and workers benefits are just two of many concerns that have diminished the enthusiasm for the current occupants of the White House.

The French Vote in Greater Boston: Woman Banker Elected to Socialist National Assembly

9 July 2012 - 11:51pm | superuser
by Jane Fair Bestor and Isaac Saias (Independent)

On June 16, on the eve of the Greek parliamentary elections, with the future of the European Union in doubt and a newly-elected Socialist president in France, French citizens in the U.S. and Canada voted to elect a candidate in a newly created constituency to represent them in the French National Assembly. They chose Corinne Narassiguin, a 37-year old member of the Socialist Party who has worked as a banker on Wall Street for twelve years.
 

Alice Amsden - An Economist for the Commonwealth?

30 March 2012 - 1:16pm | suren
by Suren Moodliar

Massachusetts lost one of its more important thinkers earlier this month. The economist Alice Amsden passed away suddenly just as colleagues thought she was on her way to recovery. Like many intellectuals who have contributed much to our understanding of the world, hers was not a household name, certainly not in her homeland. This is no accident for several reasons: her work focused on the economic growth of other countries and, perhaps more significantly, Amsden debunked much of orthodox economic development theory.

From Occupy to Rectify

15 October 2011 - 8:21pm | MaxEntropy
by Max Entropy

Occupying Wall Street and other city spaces for a month by assortments of individuals commanded broad attention and galvanized widespread apathy into action. The suppressed subtext of discontent with the exercise of economic power and its grave consequences suddenly became the text of prime time news. Although various groups such as UK/US/Uncut had spotlighted corporate conniving and tax evasion, they gained little traction among natural allies or consumers of news media because their actions were not well covered.

Oh No Onyango

29 August 2011 - 9:11pm | MaxEntropy
by Geoff Dutton

One Onyango Obama was arrested in Framingham last Wednesday night for failure to stop at a stop sign when a police car was starting to cross the intersection. After he tested positive for blood alcohol, he was brought in and booked. According to the police log,

1105897 19:10 ARREST: OBAMA, ONYANGO 37 CHARLES ST FRAMINGHAM,
MADOB:06/03/44 Arrested@ WAVERLEY ST, CHICKEN BONE SALOON for
M/V-OUI-ALCOHOL M/V-TRAF/CNTRL/SIG/DEV/RMKS M/V-OP

What Newt Said that the Press Didn’t Discuss

24 May 2011 - 9:08pm | MaxEntropy
by Geoff Dutton

Here's a great example of why citizens must transform the way news media work. By ignoring the substance of recent remarks by Newt Gingrich about right- and left-wing “social engineering,” the mass media further enabled party politics to conduct ideologically driven behavior mod experiments on the nation without adult supervision.

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