AltWeeklies Wire
Massachusetts Set to Penalize Uninsured in 2008new
If you've been living in an uninsured cave for the past year, now would be a good time to crawl out. The Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority spent hours last week discussing exactly how they'll punish your lazy ass for not getting health care.
Dig Boston |
Cris Rodriguez |
01-16-2008 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Mass. Activists Bullish on Circus Bannew
During a raucous State House hearing last week, animal advocates pulled out all the stops convince the legislature to effectively ban the circus.
Dig Boston |
Keith Howard |
10-24-2007 |
Animal Issues
Tags: circus, animal issues
Mass. Turnpike Toll Hike Will Do Little in the Long Runnew
The hike smacks of sticking a finger in the leak of a bulging dam.
Dig Boston |
Cara Boyles |
10-17-2007 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Asperger's Advocacy Groups Just Can't Get Alongnew
Two different Massachusetts groups that want to raise awareness about Asperger's syndrome, a disorder characterized by chronic social awkwardness, are backing two different bills, promoted by two different legislators, that would do almost exactly the same thing.
Dig Boston |
Julia Reischel |
10-11-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
AltWheels: Not Here to Destroy Americanew
With bikes, solar power, hybrid cars, community living plans and free compact fluorescent light bulbs, Boston's fifth annual AltWheels Festival radiated an unfocused chaos.
Dig Boston |
Cara Bayles |
10-03-2007 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation
Pro-Casino Arguments Ain't Nothing but a Mathqueradenew
Outside of Dr. Clyde Barrow's papers and studies that casinos have funded, hard numbers for casinos' economic benefits, by and large, don't exist -- and if it's problematic that Gov. Deval Patrick built a major policy decision on one man's research, it's doubly so that that research comes with a warning from the governor's own staff.
Dig Boston |
Julia Reischel and Paul McMorrow |
09-27-2007 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Silly Fetishists, Sex Isn't for Feetnew
An incident in Cambridge last month illuminates the fact that Massachusetts law makes it nearly impossible for anyone without vanilla sexual tastes to commit sexual assault.
Dig Boston |
Julia Reischel |
09-20-2007 |
Sex
The Right Wing Rides Again in Massachusettsnew
The state is in the process of overturning a set of Mitt Romney-era rules inhibiting some types stem cell research, and the Massachusetts Family Institute and its allies aren't too happy about it.
Dig Boston |
Keith Howard |
09-12-2007 |
Science
Mass. Home Health Care Workers Unitenew
In October, SEIU Local 1199 will hold the largest union election in the history of New England -- if the votes fall the way 1199 expects, the union will represent 22,000 personal care attendants who care for elderly and disabled people in their homes.
Dig Boston |
Cara Bayles |
08-15-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Gay Marriage Scorecard: Winners & Losersnew
Last week's Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, which killed the Protection of Marriage Amendment and enshrined gay marriage until at least 2012, changes everything.
Dig Boston |
Julia Reischel and Paul McMorrow |
06-21-2007 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Child Left Behindnew
Does tying standardized testing to a high school diploma work? Ask this kid.
Dig Boston |
Keith Howard |
06-21-2007 |
Education
Artists Foundation Takes On the New Health Insurance Lawsnew
The task force that oversees Massachusetts' new health insurance mandate gives the self-employed the shaft.
Dig Boston |
Lissa Harris |
06-06-2007 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
Gentrification Hits a Glut in Bostonnew
The South Boston neighborhood's mammoth new million-dollar condos are disconcertingly empty, while other projects in the area have been stalled for months.
Dig Boston |
Julia Reischel |
05-31-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Weekly Dig Bomb Scare!new
Boston is unnerved, again, by flashing blinky lights.
Dig Boston |
Staff |
05-25-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
Boston Pride and Prejudice: Sex Offender Chairednew
Choosing Bill Berggren, convicted sex offender, to chair the fundraising for Boston Pride, was short of Sense and Sensibility.
Dig Boston |
Lissa Harris |
05-25-2007 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
