While researching a thing I'm writing, I found this 2019 psych study on how debt relief improves cognitive function for poor people by 1/4 of a standard deviation. That is a LOT.
C’mon #Boston ! This is incredibly dangerous - and predictable if we fail to build better. Mass Ave @CityOfBoston are you going to enforce the bikeway?
Because so far both my trips have featured this same motorist activity, which forces people on bike to enter the fray of traffic. Drivers are using the cycleway as a right turn lane AND parking in it. #bollardsForBoston#bospoli#mapoli#transportation
On today's CCTV Cambridge What's That About? a new public records request uncovers a host of problems with the DCR decision to close Riverbend Park on Saturdays, including evidence that State Rep. Marjorie Decker blatantly lied about her position. According to the records, our Rep was privately campaigning to close the park on Saturdays while publicly claiming the opposite. Oops! #mapoli#cambridgema
Massachusetts is launching a new tourism campaign emphasizing queer folks. I think our state has a lot to offer beyond tourism: a place for queer people and others to thrive with strong rights protections, great jobs, and wonderful people and communities.
One of the things that makes me sad is knowing every day some LGBT person decides they can't move to Massachusetts because housing is too expensive. They decide that they can't afford the rights, protections, and environment to thrive that Massachusetts offers.
I care so deeply about housing affordability because it's a crucial building block that lets people thrive. We need to make Massachusetts AFFORDABLE for us all!
Thank you to everyone that is addressing the reality we’re increasingly faced with - a system that destroys our future. The #climate crisis is here. We have to stop the insanity of believing in trickle-down economics and imagine with open-mindedness a different way of doing things
This cop got away with it for years until he was caught on surveillance cameras punching a handcuffed man in the face.
This is the reason the POST commission database is useless. Years of “unsupported” complaints against him would have never shown up but now we know this was not a one-off but a pattern. #MApoli
Years of alleged abuses by Fall River cop reveal limits of internal police investigations
The potential Massachusetts ballot measure — which supporters are eyeing for 2024 or 2026 — would create “access” to natural psychedelics and remove criminal penalties for personal possession across the state.
Big news in animal welfare! The #Massachusetts State Senate today passed a measure that would ban the inhumane practice of #cat declawing–something that usually involves removing the claws and the first bone of the toes of a cat’s front feet and sometimes also the hind feet. It’s a painful process that often results in complications and behavioral issues 1/
Breaking a campaign promise, Gov. Healey's administration has denied another public records request.
The MBTA's new Capital Needs Assessment includes an estimate for the total cost of the T's repair needs. The fact that the administration doesn't want anyone to see it does not inspire confidence:
"The big takeaway was, cameras don’t have guns," says report author Lindiwe Rennert. "While there are civil liberties concerns associated with camera-based enforcement, the concern is de-escalated from loss of life, to an abuse of information. Both are important, but the scale is unquestionably different." #mapoli
@thepoliticalcat@qkslvrwolf yes - we gotta pay attn to Congress and VOTE this fall! I think some of us in #MA have an opportunity in September as well as November. Of course voting won’t save us on it’s own, but esp. on a local level it matters a lot.
Here’s a map that shows the area where the Provincetown Select Board is proposing to ban people from riding bikes but allow people
to drive cars. It encompasses Commercial St through the center of town from the library all the way to the Canteen restaurant. You can read our statement about the proposal and our suggestions for ways to improve safety on the street: https://bikescape.org/pedal-blog/dont-ban-bikes#Provincetown#CapeCod#SafeStreets#traffic#mapoli#bicycle#cycling#BikeTooter
First big group ride this year with local cycling group Charles River Wheelers (CRW).
Rode through some very wealthy suburban towns (Dover is the wealthiest town in Massachusetts with median household income of $250k+)
Very fast paced group. Started with the 2nd group (15-16mph pace) but caught the first group (17-18mph pace) shortly after. I stayed with the first group and average speed of this ride is 17.9mph!
I was curious about these towns (of course) so I looked them up. The wealthiest towns in MA all keep their zoning restrictions on residential properties to be at least 1+ acre, which pushes the property price really high. I saw a lot of humongous houses in Dover and Sherborn today.
This picture (from Reddit) is basically the local politics in MA (Weston is one of the two "W towns" in MA that're 2nd and 3rd wealthiest in the state).
Coming soon? Psychedelics on the ballot in Massachusetts (www.wbur.org)
The potential Massachusetts ballot measure — which supporters are eyeing for 2024 or 2026 — would create “access” to natural psychedelics and remove criminal penalties for personal possession across the state.
Connolly leaving Boston DSA (www.politico.com)
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: CONNOLLY CALLS IT — Mike Connolly isn’t giving Boston’s Democratic Socialists of America chapter the chance to kick him out.