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Monthly Archives: December 2018

2019: WE HAVE 11 YEARS TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE

  In last week’s column looking back at “2018: The Year in Global Warming,”  I reviewed the dire threat posed to humanity and our environment by climate change, and concluded with the following:   The big question for Bostonians and anyone else reading this: How do we go from this grim state of affairs to […]

2018: THE YEAR IN GLOBAL WARMING

  “We are the first generation to fully understand climate change and the last generation to be able to do something about it.” —Petteri Taalas, secretary-general, World Meteorological Organization   Given all the developments I could review from the year that’s now drawing to a close—and given that I primarily write for a Greater Boston […]

EDITORIAL: SAVE COMMUNITY MEDIA

Tell the FCC That You Support Your Local Cable Access Station by Dec 14   December 12, 2018 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   At DigBoston, my colleagues and I put a lot of effort into working with local community media stations around Greater Boston. Because they are the heart and soul of grassroots democratic public […]

FAIR HOUSING WHACKED: TUFTS STUDENTS FIGHT ADMIN PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH “CLASSIST” DORM SYSTEM

  December 5, 2018 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   More than 200 Tufts University students, faculty, and allies from surrounding communities held a march and demonstration last week to protest a new campus housing policy, according to the Boston Herald. Over the summer, the Tufts administration announced that its annual lottery system for on-campus housing […]