Jamaica Plain residents and business people are dealing with some large, complex public projects this year including City of Boston plans for creating additional sections of a bike-lane network on JP streets; renovating White Stadium in Franklin Park to host…
Author: Sandra Storey
JP Observer: Heat Pump Time: Energy-Efficient Home Heating-and-Cooling Options Available
Lots of people, including rafts of journalists and tons of Americans polled recently, say they want to put an upper age limit on who can be president of the United States. More than 70 percent of respondents—Democrats, Republicans and independents…
JP Observer: It’s time we check on air quality like we do the weather; here’s how
Open the windows. Take a walk. Get some fresh air. Sounds like good, commonplace advice. And it used to be, depending on the location. But we’re past the time we can think and talk about “climate change” in only a…
JP Observer: Heat Pump Time: Energy-Efficient Home Heating & Cooling Options Available
When I was a third-grader in Alabama I remember my dad pointed to a metal box near our house in the backyard. He said it was a heat pump that warmed the house in the winter. “It pulls energy from…
JP Observer: ChatGPT: Is AI Armageddon Upon Us?
As if newspaper columnists and other journalists needed something else to freak people out about this year, along came ChatGPT. It was released by nonprofit creator OpenAI in late November so people can have things written to order for them.…
JP Observer: The Monument Soldier’s Eyes
I thought I knew Monument Square at the Centre and South Streets intersection well. How many times have I driven or walked by the landmark Civil War memorial with the soldier on top over the past 50 years? Like many…
JP Observer: Take a Hike Through JP, Boston Along a Unique Urban Trail
Special to the Gazette A new way to socialize, get some exercise that’s not strenuous, and become immersed in Boston green spaces is being unveiled this summer by the Jamaica Plain man who invented it. Miles Howard created what’s called…
JP Observer: Fixing our Democracy – First ethics code ever proposed for SCOTUS
Most of the recent extreme Supreme Court (SCOTUS) rulings have made no sense. We live in a representative democracy where the majority is supposed to pretty much prevail. Yet SCOTUS rulings to loosen gun controls and CO2 emissions regulations, allow…
JP Observer: MA + 14 other states support National Popular Vote; more states needed
If things go well in the next two years, Massachusetts electors will vote for whomever wins the national popular vote for president on Nov. 5, 2024. And the United States would be guaranteed for the first time that its president…
JP Observer: When Media is Media: Social media and freedom of speech
What’s been written and said about free speech and social media lately could fill a server farm. Unfortunately, much of the discussion and many disagreements so far are based on fundamental gaps in understanding. Kingpins of “social…