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T as canary in the coal mine

By david_yamada - 1/29/09 - 9:07 pm

This evening I boarded the Orange Line at State Street for my usual trip back home to JP. Immediately I was greeted by a powerful odor, emanating from a guy who was sitting there with what looked like all his worldly belongings. A few stops later, onto the train came another fellow, obviously mentally ill, who spent the trip mumbling and cursing to himself.

Please don't get me wrong: I'm not blaming these poor folks for using the T to have a halfway comfortable place to spend a cold evening. And believe me, having lived in NYC for 12 years, I've seen a lot on a subway.

Hunger on the rise in Massachusetts

By Anonymous - 11/2/08 - 7:08 pm

Did you know that

more than 8 percent of the state's households [more than 500,000 people] could not afford to buy enough healthy food from 2004 to 2006, the most recent years for which statistics are available.

That's up from the 6 percent during the years between 2001 to 2003.

Advocates blame a souring economy and higher food prices in part for the increase in hungry families. LINK

If Jim McGovern really wants a challenge

By adamg - 5/18/07 - 8:18 am

He should go more than just a week on food stamps, Margalit writes:

The next big thing to protest

By adamg - 11/14/06 - 11:17 pm

Jim Conley wonders if, now that the debate over gay marriage is tabled, anti-gay religious leaders and the media will turn their attention to the hundreds of thousands of Massachusetts residents below the poverty line:

... Silly me, like there'll be cameras showing up to cover poverty in Massachusetts. Why report on the hardship faced by one-fifth of Massachusetts' residents when you can cover some nut job in a froth over "Adam and Steve"?

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