Dec 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Our group has lost one of its founding members: Joanna Herlihy, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who passed away at home on November 29. As a public banking advocate she was instrumental in moving us from our early focus on a public bank for Boston to our current...
Oct 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
Couldn’t agree more with this column by Jason Pramas in DigBoston! Jason quotes our “Clear Case for a Public Infrastructure Bank” document, which lays out some of the documented problems with Massachusetts’s roads, bridges, tunnels and water...
Aug 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
This opinion piece, “Myths about Wall Street Banks,” is author and public banking activist Rick Girling’s reply to an article critical of the California public banking movement entitled “Myths about LA’s Public Banks,” by Jack...
Apr 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
A little-known fact, especially in the US: a quarter of all banks are state-owned public banks. Yet not all of them operate effectively, equitably, or in response to the needs of the people they ostensibly serve. The potential of public banks to work for the benefit...
Feb 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
Washington State Senator Bob Hasegawa, a long-time advocate for public banking, has filed a bill, SB 5949, that would create a public state investment trust and a commission to oversee it. He filed a similar bill in the last session. The bill’s focus on a...
Jan 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
David Art, publisher of MASSterList, an extremely useful daily digest of Massachusetts political and policy news, events, and jobs, recently sent out a survey to readers, and among the questions was one on priorities for the Baker administration. Art notes… “We...
