Sitemap - 2025 - Contrarian Boston

Will venture capitalists ruin Substack and The Free Press? | Coming to your local school board race - candidates pushed by the teachers union | New poll spells trouble for Josh Kraft |

Breaking News/Boston parents file lawsuit blasting revamped exam school admissions for alleged use of racial preferences

Mass. student lender charged hidden fees, lawsuit contends | Wu blames developers for collapse in Boston housing construction | Markey running scared as challenger rumors mount |

T sure knows how to spend money | Emily Rooney on Copley Square's costly and mystifying redesign | Check out Contrarian Boston's energy crisis forum | Quick hits |

Will mainstream media swallow up The Free Press? | Emily Rooney on the Copley Square redesign muddle | Fenway tower flop bad news for Wu | Boston rental market gets even tougher |

Dems failing neediest Mass. schools | New housing construction implodes in Boston | Newton chamber chief blasts key city councilor | Boston magazine's posterior-kissing list of local luminaries |

NPR's shamelessly biased coverage of public media funding battle | This Trump tax break a windfall for Boston's bluest suburbs | Once proud Cape Codder shrivels under Gannett's toxic ownership |

NPR's clueless take on the housing crisis | Did teachers' union cheat in anti-MCAS campaign? | Ideology or realism driving Mass. climate policy? | Quick hits |

Another story you saw here first | Deal of a lifetime for the Red Sox shortchanges Boston taxpayers | Contrarian Boston Iran strike poll results

Breaking News | Chinese rail giant building T's new Orange and Red Line cars warns of production shutdown as parts held up at the U.S. border

Emily Rooney on Boston's bizarre bike lanes | No Kings demonstrates political savvy | Mass. teachers union and its bulging political war chest | Wu administration's growing tax scandal |

Join Contrarian Boston and a panel of experts Thursday at noon for a forum on the Bay State's energy crisis

Sorting fact from fiction on media's Iran strike reporting | Wu in hotseat after Boston office building owners hit with mysterious charges | Bombshell report on Trump mass deportation push |

Contrarian Boston poll | President Trump's decision to strike Iran

Boston's NIMBY Rich | Second time around, bombshell stories on Trumpian antics have gone missing | Join Contrarian Boston on Thursday as we delve into the Bay State's energy crisis |

Globe misses real story on Wu soccer stadium cost controversy | Inept Mass. cannabis watchdog faces sweeping overhaul | Prosecutorial overreach doomed case against Karen Read |

In explosive book on Biden health coverup, two Mass pols do the right thing | Wu's number games on stadium mega project |

Breaking News | Cost of Boston's pro soccer stadium project much higher than what city has estimated, Kraft contends

Breaking News/Stagnant Mass. economy losing ground to Sunbelt states amid high housing, business costs, report finds

Cannabis boom goes bust | The biggest threat to mainstream media, and it's not Trump| Boston mayor, hubby pocket thousands with Celtics tix sales |

Shooting the messenger at Boston City Hall | NPR's "On the Media" anything but that |

Contrarian Boston Forum | Bay State energy crisis | June 26 at noon |

Economic delusions and Boston's mayoral race | Gaza show you won't hear on NPR | Big win for ousted state pot chief |

Boston homeowners face huge tax hit, BPI report finds

Boston's never-ending sex harass case | Bay State's housing goals blasted as "unachievable"

Wu, Boston Globe lovefest | Suburban home price explosion

05.29.2025/Breaking News

05.28.2025/New Mass. casino rising

05.27.2025/Bike lane backlash

05.23.2025/Wu's white elephant?

Breaking News/05.13.2025

Breaking News/05.01.2025

04.24.2025/Housing Crisis

Zoom forum May 8 at noon: The Bay State energy crisis

04.22.2025/Vacation Edition

Breaking News/04.16.2025

Zoom forum May 8 at noon: The Bay State energy crisis

Breaking News/04.14.2025

Breaking News/03.28.2025

Breaking News/03.21.2025

Breaking News/03.20.2025

Breaking News/03.18.2025

Breaking News/03.10.2025

Zoom forum today at 11 a.m.: State Auditor Diana DiZoglio and her battle against government secrecy

Zoom forum Thursday at 11 a.m.: State Auditor Diana DiZoglio and her battle against government secrecy

Breaking News/03.04.2025

Zoom forum Thursday at 11 a.m.: State Auditor Diana DiZoglio and her battle against government secrecy

Subscription renewal update

Breaking News/02.28.2025

Chat today at noon/With offshore wind in trouble, is it time for Massachusetts to go nuclear?

Chat Friday at noon/With off-shore wind in trouble, is it time for Massachusetts to go nuclear?

March 6 forum: State Auditor Diana DiZoglio and her battle against government secrecy

Breaking News/02.21.2025

Chat today at noon/The collapse of new single-family home construction in Massachusetts and New England

Chat on Wednesday/The collapse of new single-family home construction in Massachusetts and New England

Breaking News/02.14.2025

Chat at noon/Trump's second act and Democratic Party dysfunction

March 6 forum: State Auditor Diana DiZoglio and her battle against government secrecy

Chat on Friday/Trump's second act and Democratic Party dysfunction

Chat today at noon/Can downtown Boston be saved?

Chat on Wednesday at noon/Can downtown Boston be saved?

Webinar alert: Today at noon - discussion about the future of downtown Boston

Chat today at noon/Has the mainstream media been fair in its coverage of the immigration debate?

Webinar alert: Thursday, Jan 30th at noon - discussion about the future of downtown Boston

Breaking News/01.28.2025

Chat on Wednesday at noon/Has the mainstream media been fair in its coverage of the immigration debate?

Webinar alert: Thursday, Jan 30th at noon - discussion about the future of downtown Boston

Chat alert/noon today: Was mainstream media coverage of the Gaza war and campus protests fair to Israel?

Chat alert: Was mainstream media coverage of the Gaza war and campus protests fair to Israel?

Chat alert: Was mainstream media coverage of the Gaza war and campus protests fair to Israel?

Breaking News/01.17.2024

Webinar alert/Can downtown Boston be saved?

Chat alert/L.A. fires: Another blue state disaster or just more of the same old blame game?

Chat alert/L.A. fires: Another blue state disaster or just more of the same old blame game?

Breaking News/01.08.2025

Chat alert/What are the big local and national stories the mainstream media is ignoring or just can't get right?

Chat alert/What are the big local and national stories the mainstream media is ignoring or just can't get right?

Chat alert/What are the big local and national stories the mainstream media is ignoring or just can't get right?

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