“It’s sort of ironic that today, landlords and property management companies use all sorts of systems like tenant screenings to learn all sorts of data about tenants. And yet tenants don’t even know the names of their own landlords.” — Erin McElroy, UT Austin professor.
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Posted inCommunity Voices
Opinion: Calling on Sen. Markey to intercede in stalled Commonwealth Wind project
“Sen. Markey needs to use his office to clarify how the tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act will be implemented so that Avangrid can move forward with reasonable confidence.”
Posted inCommunity Voices
Opinion: Banning books sends the wrong message to marginalized students
Removal of the literature that has been objected to by a small minority of people … would only serve to further mistreat and stigmatize our minority student population.
Posted inElection 2022
After 25 years, can Hodgson still turn on the charm?
He never thought about not running again. He’s old enough now to retire from the $171,900-a-year job, maybe spend more time in the Azores where he and his wife bought a place years ago. But not now.
Posted inElection 2022
Will Heroux’s analytics measure up?
It’s just who he is, the sort of guy who “reads these gigantic books on economics while other people are getting pizza and beer.” He’s just a different sort of guy, says Attleboro City Councilor Laura Dolan.
Posted inCommunity Voices
Opinion: In what alternate universe is Nancy Pelosi more of a threat to democracy than Donald Trump?
“If the majority of voters who recognized the harm a second Trump presidency posed do not come out and support the candidates in the coming election, then the trajectory to autocracy or a civil war is almost inevitable.”
Posted inCommunity Voices
Opinion: Hodgson’s failure to improve his jails is a failure of leadership
May 1, 2020, should have been a wake-up call for anyone who hadn’t been paying attention to how their tax dollars are spent. On swag and swagger and pointless pandemonium.
Posted inOffshore Wind
Major Massachusetts offshore wind project no longer viable
Last week, Commonwealth Wind filed a motion for a one-month delay in DPU’s review, telling the state that their project can no longer move forward as planned.
Posted inElection 2022
Fact check: Examining inmate suicides in Bristol County
If Adam Howe’s suicide on Oct. 2 is confirmed by the state medical examiner, it would be the 22nd recorded suicide of a person in Bristol County custody since 2006.