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Minority Report: Let Scots breathe free

Lincoln Son Currie March 10, 2021
Scots must be given another independence referendum and free themselves at last. Their time has come.
Street in Jamaica Plain neighborhood

Boston remains highly gentrified despite housing efforts

Madison Mercado February 18, 2021
Boston was ranked third most intensely gentrified city in the United States between 2013-2017. Neighborhoods like East Boston, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, Mattapan, Hyde Park and South Boston were most affected.
Gabriella Aponte

2020 Breakdown: Surprise, surprise — the “billionaire” president doesn’t pay his taxes

Gabriella Aponte September 30, 2020
These revelations on Trump’s tax avoidance are unquestionably appalling, and many outlets are calling the report a total bombshell — except it really isn’t a bombshell at all.
Luca Becker

I Call Foul Play: Billionaires Will Continue to Act Immorally — Tax Them

Luca Becker September 29, 2020
The American people must call for change. In a climate where the same wealth inequalities that plagued their grandparents are being exacerbated, citizens must ask themselves if billionaires should even exist.
Massachusetts educators face layoffs and non-renewal notices due to widespread budget cuts as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Sweeping cuts to Mass. public school staff complicate recovery of education

Madeline Humphrey July 6, 2020
Just more than 2,000 public school staff members in Massachusetts received layoff and non-renewal notices this spring as budgets continue to tighten due to the pandemic.
EDITORIAL: ‘Millionaire tax’ is good, but not good enough

EDITORIAL: ‘Millionaire tax’ is good, but not good enough

Editors February 11, 2019

A ballot initiative to raise the income tax on the wealthiest Massachusetts residents is being reintroduced. The measure, which was rejected by the state’s Supreme Judicial Court last June, sought to...

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