Massachusetts has more than 160,000 units of income-restricted housing. According to a study published last fall by MassINC and the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership, these properties disproportionately house residents who lack high-speed internet.
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Posted inOpinion
Tracking the digital divide
OVER THE PAST YEAR, schools, workplaces, health care providers, and other basic services have moved online. In doing so, the centrality of the internet to modern life became crystal clear […]
Posted inBook Review
Scary headlines
GHOSTING THE NEWS Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy By Margaret Sullivan 105 pages, Columbia Global Reports WHEN THE OWNERS of the Middlesex News acquired the Waltham News-Tribune, […]
Posted inEconomy
Everyone knows Anthony in the North End – just not this one
THIS STORY IS A SIDEBAR TO THE MAIN STORY: THE AIRBNB GOLD RUSH IS ON. ANTHONY WAS A popular Airbnb host. His 88 units in Boston, including about half in […]
Posted inPolitics, The Download
Free things on the internet of things
The Age of the Internet has spawned a number of changes in the way people think, chief of which is a growing sense of entitlement. Since the dawn of the […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service, The Download
A U-turn on internet privacy
In March, US Rep. Michael Capuano took the House floor, channeled his best inner-Somerville (circa 1980), and ripped Republican lawmakers who were about to strip away internet privacy protections for […]
Posted inEconomy, Opinion, Politics
“What the heck are you thinking?”
“I HAVE A simple question: What the heck are you thinking? What is in your mind?” With that, a dumbfounded Rep. Michael Capuano took to the House floor on Tuesday and spoke […]