Apr 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Covid-19 pandemic has focused the attention of public bank advocates on immediate economic needs: small business loans, municipal finance in the face of a tax base collapse, and how to support the unemployed and vital non-profits, such as hospitals and food banks....
Apr 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
On March 11, the Selectboard for the town of Whately unanimously voted to support H935/S579, An Act Establishing the Massachusetts Infrastructure Bank. As the board pointed out… As its name provides, H935 focuses its efforts on mitigating chronic deficiencies in...
Apr 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
Public vs Private Banking Isaiah Poole, editorial manager of the Next System Project at the Democracy Collaborative, and Rick Girling of the California Public Banking Alliance, offer a clarion call for state and city public banks in today’s The Hill. They...
Dec 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
We note with sadness the passing of Chuck Turner, a long-time community advocate, organizer, and former Boston City Council member, who joined our advisory board in our early days when our focus was on establishing a public bank for the greater Boston area. He was a...
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...
