HeyJaredEd Gaskin
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Gaskin: Hard questions for Mayor Wu about Blue Hill Ave. (opens the original)
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The City has been working on plans to improve Blue Hill Avenue since the Deval Patrick administration. By 2022, we already knew the major concerns. Residents and businesses were worried about traffic, church and general parking, access, and imposing one solution on very different sections of Blue Hill Avenue. The political signal was equally clear: four of the five candidates running for the state Senate seat now held by Sen. Liz Miranda opposed the proposal then under consideration. It should n
Gaskin: Reparations for Black Bostonians could hit $9.8B (opens the original)
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The cancellation of Boston’s contract with Tufts University for the first volume of its reparations research created a problem, but also an opening. The cancelled volume was intended to examine Boston’s racial history from the 1600s through 1940. A separate Northeastern University study covering 1940 through 2020 has been completed and is under review by the Boston Reparations Task Force. Boston still needs the missing history. But the cancellation raises a more fundamental question: What is rep
Gaskin: Racial wealth gap won’t close by itself (opens the original)
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Eleven years ago, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston published one of the most startling economic statistics associated with this city. In The Color of Wealth in Boston, the median net worth of U.S.-born Black households in Greater Boston was $8. For white households, it was $247,500. This August, the Boston Fed gave us another warning. Its 2025 Massachusetts Economic Conditions and Household Opportunity Survey estimated median family net wealth at $549,200 for white families, $7,800 for Black f
Gaskin: Why should someone in prison get free college? (opens the original)
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When I wrote recently about improving workforce development training in our prisons, some of the strongest reactions were variations on the same theme: Why are we spending money improving the lives of people who committed crimes? Prison is supposed to be punishment. Lock them up, keep them there longer and make conditions so unpleasant that nobody who experiences prison will ever want to return. For people who commit the most serious crimes, some would go further: give them life sentences and th
Gaskin: Mayor Wu, do the right thing with White Stadium (opens the original)
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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial court has settled whether White Stadium can move forward. It has not settled whether the project will be successful, equitable, environmentally responsible, or meet the needs of Boston Public Schools students. Those questions are now the City’s responsibility. The “right thing” consists of two things: completing the studies necessary to make White Stadium successful and getting all stakeholders on board. I understand why the administration may have hesitated to
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