By Chuck Collins Special to the Gazette If you stand in Jamaica Plain and look downtown, you will see a new building rising next to the Prudential Center. This is One Dalton Place, Boston’s newest and tallest residential luxury tower,…
Category: Opinion
Letters:
Why I doorknocked for Nika Elugardo Nika Elugardo’s primary victory on 9/4 left me elated and, for the first time since 11/9/2016, hopeful. Having grown up in Germany and studied the rise and rule of the Nazi regime in school…
Op-ed: Renovating a historic kitchen
Remodeling a kitchen is a typical home improvement undertaking. But when the task is being done in a historic house, more often than not it’s a restoration of what the space looked in a previous time. When the Board of…
JP Observer: Gov. Baker twice rejects giving poor families benefits for newborns; Uses process devices to hinder funding
By Sandra Storey Special to the Gazette “Charlie Baker is a great governor.” One ad for him this month begins with a woman saying that. He is running for a second term, and his ads are flooding the local TV…
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Why I’m voting for Ture Turnbull Ture Turnbull is the only true progressive in the race for the State Representative for the 11th Suffolk district. When I first met Ture he was leading the policy conversation about healthcare justice. As someone…
Op-eds:
JP Progressives: Who we endorsed and why By Andrew Breton, Ziba Cranmer, Nikki Kong, and Kristin Johnson This year, JP Progressives created a member-driven endorsement process. It starts with a candidate questionnaire, forum in JP, and community conversation among members.…
Here’s Looking at You, JP|Double-dipping & A Handful of Mini Surveys
By Gustaf Berger Special to the Gazette Most mornings, I sit in front of Caffe Nero on Centre Street in the filtered shade of a honeylocust tree, observing, commenting on, and sometimes charting idiosyncratic behaviors. Do you: Use an umbrella…
Letters:
A different perspective on Sanchez Observing how the radical activists in JP are hammering Jeffrey Sanchez these days, you would think our rep has moved to the right of Trump. As a self-described “radical progressive,” I want to offer a…
JP Observer: Trees on private property need protections
By Sandra Storey Special to the Gazette Boston, with support from people in Jamaica Plain who care about the local environment, is starting to look at more of its forest and fewer of its trees, to paraphrase an old adage.…
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Legislature’s budget secures provision to protect LGBT elders from abuse and discrimination Included in the FY19 budget that the MA Legislature sent to the Governor this week is a provision that would require the development of a training curriculum for…