Last year, after a couple of controversial stories in high school newspaper The Lowell, Eric Gustafson was removed from his role directing the journalism program. He sued his employer, and he won. Listen in with host @greenwell.bsky.social.
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The candidate who gets the most votes in a presidential election should become the next president.
Anything else is not democratic.
You say we live in a republic, not a democracy? Ok, fine, whatever. I believe in democracy and think it gives us the best chance of success for all.
It's never too early to get young people to think about fighting corruption, this essay contest does just that. Please check it out and forward to others in your network, especially high school social studies and history teachers!
@thegradingpod.bsky.social listening to the latest episode while having lunch in Harvard Square
Natasha Cloud holds the rim of an outdoor basketball hoop while Mayor Mamdani stands beside her.
One person in this photo deserves a 20% WNBA revenue share and it’s not me.
Congratulations to the WNBPA on their historic labor agreement.
The triumph of congestion pricing also offers a larger reminder: Government, done right, has immense power to improve people’s lives. Many Americans have grown cynical of government, and they are right to be disappointed about its frequent failure to deliver results in the 21st century. But the answer cannot be allowing the private market and pursuit of profits to dominate American life. Leaders should instead take political risks, as officials in New York did, to create programs that can deliver tangible results.
That congestion pricing is working -- like, really really working! -- is important for the larger effort to restore faith in govt. Take big swings, get big results that people can actually feel. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...
There’s a major flaw in proposed all-party process — look at California I was surprised to read Danielle Allen’s full-throated endorsement of all-party primaries in Massachusetts at the very time when the fundamental flaw with that system is on full display in California (“All-party primaries would fix Massachusetts’ unproductive Legislature,” Opinion, March 20). Because of a crowded field of mostly Democratic candidates in this year’s all-party gubernatorial primary, there is a real risk that the top two vote getters will be conservative Republicans, even though collectively they would garner a small minority of the total vote. The majority vote would be split among eight Democrats. Overwhelmingly Democratic California is thus faced with the prospect of having to choose in the general election between two right-wing candidates who do not represent the views of the vast majority of the state’s residents. That makes the system less democratic than our current one, not more so. Get The Gavel A weekly SCOTUS explainer newsletter by columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr. Enter Email example@email.com Sign Up The real solution to uncompetitive elections in Massachusetts is ranked-choice voting, in which people can vote for multiple candidates in order of preference, and voters don’t have to guess which of their favored candidates is actually viable. Ranked-choice systems are more likely than Allen’s flawed proposal to produce competitive elections with winners who are acceptable to the majority of voters. Larry Kolodney Cambridge
"The real solution to uncompetitive elections in Massachusetts is ranked-choice voting, in which people can vote for multiple candidates in order of preference, and voters don’t have to guess which of their favored candidates is actually viable."
#mapoli
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Truths About Writing Most people will ignore what you write Someone dead did it better than you You will be misunderstood That's all ok
Note from my notebook (2017).
Shouldn’t Boston get back all the players they lost in the Breakers 2018 dispersal draft as a gesture of goodwill? #nwsl
A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.
Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.
Newton friends, I know this will shock you, but the NIMBYs are grumbling about the traffic calming on Washington St between West Newton and Newtonville. Locals should fill out this survey from the area council to tell everyone how great the pilot is
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Old photograph of a wave in the ocean.
On this day in 1942, Executive Order 9066 was signed, forcing over 120,000 Japanese Americans into concentration camps. #DayofRemembrance
Among the internees were individuals who embraced photography as an important means of artistic expression in the 1920s and 1930s.
Traffic Analysis Shows #NewtonMA Washington Street Bikeway Project Reduced Car Traffic, Speeding, and Crashes -
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Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
The guy on the right is New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, photographed at the Kennedy Center premiere of “Melania.” #GoSeahawks!
Unrivaled co-founder and WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up an “Abolish ICE” sign during player intros ahead of Mist’s game this afternoon.
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The Republican position now appears to be that you have a constitutional right to openly carry a gun in public, unless you do so while expressing a view that the government dislikes, in which case the secret police can shoot you to death on the spot.
The rage you are feeling comes from the same place inside your heart as the love. This is why you refuse to accept a world where cruelty reigns, and the fire consumes all. You have known hope and joy and kindness like you have known water. And justice is a river that demands you do not give up on it. Nikita Gill
Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
No one's life should be at risk for simply existing in their communities or exercising their rights.
Learn these. Remember them. Share them with your neighbors.
I will continue to use every tool my office has to protect our immigrant community and ensure our residents know their rights.
Let us all stand with Chairman Powell.
