Michael Jonas
Executive Editor at CommonWealth
Executive Editor of CommonWealth Beacon, which covers politics, ideas, and civic life in Massachusetts
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1 week ago |
commonwealthbeacon.org | Michael Jonas
PRESIDENT TRUMP’S reckless order to deploy National Guard and Marine forces to Los Angeles, where protests recently broke out over ICE arrests of immigrants, has rightly drawn indignation as well as legal challenge. His unilateral decision to send military personnel into a US city, bypassing the role of the state’s governor in authorizing use of the National Guard, is the latest sign of the creeping authoritarianism taking hold in Trump’s second term.
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2 weeks ago |
commonwealthbeacon.org | Michael Jonas
IN 2023, efforts to harness arts and culture as part of New Bedford’s economic revitalization strategy were dealt a blindsiding blow. Two years later, it looks as if all’s well that ends well. In mid-August of 2023, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, whose College of Visual and Performing Arts had occupied a massive 125,000-square-foot building in the heart of the city’s downtown for 22 years, abruptly announced that it was pulling up stakes and moving the program out of the building.
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1 month ago |
commonwealthbeacon.org | Michael Jonas
IT’S BECOME A rite of spring in Boston, as certain as Lilac Sunday at the Arnold Arboretum and the return of swan boats to the Public Garden: A press briefing on city plans for promoting public safety during the hot summer months when trouble ticks up with the temperature.
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1 month ago |
commonwealthbeacon.org | Michael Jonas
IN THE END, no one seems entirely happy with the outcome, and in the messy give and take of democratic decision-making that’s often hailed as a sign that the system is working. Eight years after a contentious debate over admission policies governing the state’s vocational-technical high schools first kicked into gear, it ended on Tuesday with an 8-2 vote of the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to have seats at the schools awarded through a lottery system.
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1 month ago |
commonwealthbeacon.org | Michael Jonas
THE LATEST MOVE in the chess match that has unfolded over admission policies at the state’s vocational high schools was, in effect, no move at all.
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