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Massachusetts’ Bold Opportunity: Abolish Women’s Prison
Massachusetts S. 2030, a bill to place a moratorium on all prison construction for five years while we evaluate alternatives to our carceral system, is accepting written testimony through August 4. Please consider offering your testimony (link). This post is … Continue reading
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Tagged abolish women's prisons, HDR, MCI Framingham, prison abolition, women's prison
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The High Price of Elite Housing
One hundred thirty years ago, in 1891, Mr. A.E. Parker built a house at 60 Wicklow Street in Cambridge. A 2-1/2 story wood frame building that he shared with his wife. The building first appears in the 1894 Bromley Atlas, … Continue reading
Clothesline Romanticism
What comes to mind when you see this photo? Crisp air, fresh scent, a stiff sleeve that lovingly conforms to your arm as if softens to your unique form. I cribbed the image from Heather Cox Richardson’s newsletter. Ms. Richardson, … Continue reading
Cliff Notes: Free, Smart, Real, Just America
If you have 45 minutes to ponder the state of this great nation over the upcoming Independence Day weekend, I recommend “How America Fractured into 4 Parts,” by George Packer, published by The Atlantic in Medium. If you don’t have … Continue reading
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Tagged American politics, Factions in America, George Packer, Independence Day, The Atlantic
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In honor of summertime and all things light, I share with you a piece by humorist Simon Rich, which cracked me up. I used 2 B a typical teenage girl, gossiping with my gal friends on the weekends (I luv … Continue reading
The Money Issue
If there’s a shred of doubt in your mind that the United States is in the throes of endgame empire, look no further than The New Yorker June 7, 2021: The Money Issue. Every issue of The New Yorker follows … Continue reading
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Tagged Chamath Palihapitiya, Hahnemann Hospital, Joe Freedman, Kurtis Minder, money, Rich Paul, SPAC, The Money Issue, The New Yorker
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Let’s Loosen Up Zoning: A Letter to the Cambridge City Council in Favor of “Missing Middle Housing”
June 9, 2021 Greetings Cambridge City Councilor, I am writing in support of the Cambridge Missing Middle Housing zoning petition before the city Council at the June 10, 2021 meeting. Like many Cambridge citizens, I live in a building that … Continue reading
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Tagged Cambridge MA, City of Cambridge, Missing Middle Housing, zoning, zoning reform
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The Pandemic Joy of Spider Solitaire
If there’s a single activity that’s promoted and preserved my sanity during the pandemic year—a big if in a year of rocky sanity—that activity is spider solitaire. I kicked off empty pandemic hours with jigsaw puzzles, shifted to Sudoku, even … Continue reading
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Tagged pandemic games, pandemic sanity, solitaire, spider solitaire
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A Year of Taking a Knee
A year ago today, the day after George Floyd was murdered, teenagers across the street stapled black block letters on yellow poster board to the guardrail along Huron Avenue. BLACK LIVES MATTER. That evening, I noticed a family and their … Continue reading
Land Acknowledgment
My first and most lasting lesson in the power of compound interest arrived on May 24, 1966. It must have been a slow news day. Toward the end of The Huntley-Brinkley Report, David Brinkley announced that 340 years ago, Peter … Continue reading
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Tagged Land Acknowledgment, Massachusett Tribe, Native Americans, reparations
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