The lightning-fast approval of a $40 billion state budget by the Massachusetts House of Representatives this week offers a glimpse into what's wrong around here.
Closed-door meetings, amendments shackled together or tossed aside — and then two days of debate and away we go.
CAMBRIDGE — The same City Council that passed an ordinance calling on Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump has now enacted a policy banning all city employees from flying on United Airlines.
The ordinance appears to have been sparked by a viral April 10 video showing a United Airlines passenger being bloodied and dragged off an overbooked flight in Chicago bound for Kentucky. The policy order denounces United's actions as a "hate crime," because "the victim was an Asian male and the stereotype is that Asians will be submissive and unresisting."
