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If Progressives Don't Want More Scott Browns, Then They Have to Organize the Suburbs

26 January 2010 - 11:05pm | superuser
by Jason Pramas

There has been much talk in the media about how a left-leaning state like Massachusetts could elect a conservative Republican to fill Ted Kennedy's Senate seat in last week's special election. The bulk of the conversation has run along predictable lines - Republicans gloat about their victory and look forward to taking back control of the Congress, Democrats and tame allies to their left bemoan the loss and figure that Brown won't be able to hold onto the seat. But I'm not so sure about that.

Rebuilding Haiti Will Require Full Debt Cancellation, TPS, and Serious Amounts of Direct Aid

18 January 2010 - 11:01pm | superuser
by Jason Pramas

Since Haiti was literally crushed by a massive earthquake last week, organizations and individuals across the political spectrum have called for all people of good conscience (minus Robertson and Limbaugh) to send money via the aid agencies of their choice to try to help the estimated 3,000,000 affected Haitians survive and start rebuilding.

Green Mass Group to Provide Much Needed Online Space for Progressive Political Discussion

11 January 2010 - 3:35am | superuser
by Jason Pramas

Web-based platforms for political discussion have really taken off in Massachusetts in the last few years. First there was Blue Mass Group - a very popular and groundbreaking online forum for partisans of the Mass. Democratic Party and liberals in general. Then Red Mass Group launched - and provided the same kind of virtual space for the Mass. Republican Party and right-wingers in general.

Housekeeping Week for Open Media Boston

3 January 2010 - 11:09pm | superuser
by Jason Pramas

Just a note to our viewers to let you all know that the Open Media Boston staff is taking this coming week to meet and do background work on infrastructure and fundraising. We'll be back shortly with more progressive news and views coverage. Until then please check out our recent editorials on how you can help us found our new coop and on other ways you can support OMB.

Jason Pramas is Editor/Publisher of Open Media Boston

Open Media Boston's 2010 New Year's Wish List

29 December 2009 - 10:50pm | superuser
by Jason Pramas

It's a lazy holiday week here at Open Media Boston HQ - not just because lots of folks are taking a couple of days off, but also because it's really really cold and not too much is happening around our usual beats. So what better time to bring up how our viewers can help us keep growing and improving our almost 2 year old news operation by helping us out. Yes, with money - although I addressed that subject in our holiday appeal a few weeks ago - but also with other kinds of support.

The Copenhagen Climate Conference Debacle: What Does It Mean for Massachusetts?

21 December 2009 - 10:56pm | superuser
by Jason Pramas

It starts to feel like I'm repeatedly writing the same editorial about different subjects at times like this. Just a couple of weeks ago, I mentioned how it surprised no one when Pres. Barack Obama recently announced that the U.S. was escalating the war on Afghanistan. Now I'm going to do the same thing about the United Nations Conference on Climate Change that just ended in Copenhagen.

Remembering Tim Costello

15 December 2009 - 11:12am | superuser
by Jason Pramas

Last week, only a few days after hearing that he was ill, I got word that my friend and mentor Tim Costello had passed away. He was 64. Unfortunately, I did not get a chance to speak to Tim in the last few months before he died. A private person as regards health issues and family matters, he did not wish for most of his friends and acquaintances to know that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

I am told that he wanted no public funeral, and I respect that. However, I do think it's important to say a few words about Tim for the Open Media Boston audience.

Obama Did the Expected to Afghanistan So What's the Mass. Anti-War Movement's Next Move?

6 December 2009 - 10:45pm | superuser
by Jason Pramas

Any mystery about the content of Pres. Barack Obama's speech regarding U.S. involvement in Afghanistan was dispelled the moment it was announced that he would be giving his address from West Point. One does not give a speech from the nation's preeminent military academy if one intends to preach peace and love. As expected, the President said that we'd be sending more troops to that benighted country for at least the next couple of years.

Open Media Boston Holiday Appeal: Help Us Launch the New OMB Cooperative!

29 November 2009 - 10:09pm | jpramas
by Jason Pramas

Open Media Boston needs your help to keep putting out professionally-produced news coverage of Boston and environs - with a consistently progressive editorial stance - week after week. OMB is a non-profit news publication that relies on our viewers to chip in to keep the useful information we produce flowing. Although we started off as an all-volunteer operation in March 2008, we can only keep going for the long haul if we can pay our staff a living wage.

Reflections on the National Day of Mourning

22 November 2009 - 11:15pm | jpramas
by Jason Pramas

I'm starting a bit of a tradition this Thanksgiving week by re-publishing a blog entry I wrote for my Mass. Global Action blog four years ago as an Open Media Boston editorial for the second year running in these pages. I figure that our audience has grown quite a bit since last Thanksgiving, and that I'd like more people to hear a different perspective about the holiday - if only that they may learn about how Native Americans lost New England in a vicious war instigated by expansionist English colonists over 330 years ago.

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