Every spring, I pay some money to keep the No Boston 2024 website still live, and it's wild realizing that it is now, in fact, 2024.

#mapoli #bospoli #NoBoston2024

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Tyler Parsons ProPublica We'd love to do this, but this guidance gives us pause:

'You should be able to answer these three questions: What’s wrong? Who or what is responsible? What needs to be changed?'

We're being asked to pre-report a project that may or may not be funded. It's burden on small…

Last year I heard rumblings that the City of Sandy Springs was planning to build a $25 million shooting range next to some apartments. I was wrong.

Turns out it's a $40 million complex and they've already started.

New, from your friends Appen Media:

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In Los Angeles, the steep financial cost of the 2028 Olympics is coming into focus. Grand transportation plans ('28 by '28') have crumbled, & organizers are realizing they'll need $1 billion to run (temporary) buses for the Games. By Rachel Uranga Los Angeles Times latimes.com/california/sto…

Chunklet is doing a first-ever reissue of the rare 7' from seminal ATL hardcore punk band DDT chunklet.bandcamp.com/album/brave-ne…

Farewell to John Sinclair, a rock & roll radical and pro-marijuana activist who was a pivotal figure in the creation of the Michigan counterculture that gave birth to the MC5 and Iggy Pop & the Stooges. freep.com/story/entertai…

New: Massachusetts' top court appeared open to concluding a 1960s law prohibiting eavesdropping on phone calls also bars website operators from collecting users' browsing activities without their consent using analytics tools produced by Meta and Google. reuters.com/legal/transact…

UPDATE | We are getting MULTIPLE reports of trees down, trees on homes, injuries and people trapped. Many roads are blocked, first responders not able to reach all calls. 11Alive News has crews on the way to Conyers.

Kansas newspaper that was raided by Marion police sues officials for attack on free press | via Sherman Smith #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2024/04/01/kan…

This is the second known City ethics investigation involving Mr. Freeman, who also was involved in the APF giving Christmas gifts to members of the committee charged with reviewing its training center plan. saportareport.com/city-ethics-of… and saportareport.com/christmas-gift…

In 2023, the Atlanta Police Foundation (APF) quietly advanced a plan to test an invasive individual electronic surveillance program and secure a $1 million city contract for Talitrix, an APF donor company.

atlpresscollective.com/2024/04/01/atl…

✨I’m excited to announce that I’m (finally) starting a heavy metal newsletter! Salvo will focus on in-depth artist interviews and band profiles, plus a monthly news roundup called Reaper’s Digest.

Salvo launches April 1st—learn more & subscribe here!✨
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Joe Lieberman, who never had a moral that didn't make him panic, was a knee-jerk censor and a serious menace to rap, video games, and journalism. He helped lay the foundation for today's towering nutjobs. theguardian.com/world/2010/dec… nytimes.com/1995/06/30/bus… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993%E2%8…

Tuk is one of the best at this type of gutsy but catchy rock and one of the few keeping it rooted in real-life community -- including ATL's. 🤘

New ORR denial:

Plans for a (previously unreported) $25 million gun range at the currently-under-construction Sandy Springs Police HQ.

Cool moment at Videodrome Videodrome today meeting the makers of a forthcoming documentary on surviving n thriving video stores. One day you may thrill to seeing me renting 'Trick or Treat'... whatwerewethinkingfilms.com/2024/02/02/bes…

Leaving money on table and heart in chest is so extraordinarily rare in any medium these days -- especially at organization level -- that this deserves the geek medal of honor. More credit for what creatives choose not to do, less for what rich blowhards barf in our faces daily.

First three tracks of the new Judas Priest are as crazy n good as their classic best, even if it is a sadly missed opportunity to title a metal album 'Invinciballs' 🤘youtube.com/watch?v=tdJuEU…