Dan Atkinson
@atkinsondan.bsky.social
Reporter, formerly at Boston Herald and Gatehouse Media, currently freelancing and teaching at Lasell University. Investigations, reportage and opinion. danatkins1 at gmail.com
The #MBTA is eager to tout a new fare system coming online this summer - they're less eager to talk about whether delays will cost them daily six-figure payments to private equity lenders. My latest for @binjreports.bsky.social horizonmass.news/2024/06/18/t...
THE MBTA’S ‘BILLION-DOLLAR QUESTION MARK’
Speaking of high fares and tardiness, will the T have to pay private lenders for being late to deliver its new collection system?
horizonmass.news
June 18, 2024 at 6:08 PM
The #MBTA is eager to tout a new fare system coming online this summer - they're less eager to talk about whether delays will cost them daily six-figure payments to private equity lenders. My latest for @binjreports.bsky.social horizonmass.news/2024/06/18/t...
New for @binjreports.bsky.social: While #mapoli legislators are looking to restrict the use of facial recognition, their own security system at the State House is getting an upgrade with the technology horizonmass.news/2024/05/20/f...
FACIAL ANIMOSITY
As Massachusetts lawmakers weigh new facial recognition rules, their own guards shop for AI-enhanced surveillance that privacy advocates call “chilling,” “unlawful,” and “racially biased”
horizonmass.news
May 21, 2024 at 1:25 PM
New for @binjreports.bsky.social: While #mapoli legislators are looking to restrict the use of facial recognition, their own security system at the State House is getting an upgrade with the technology horizonmass.news/2024/05/20/f...
A mobile beer garden could roll through seven Boston parks this summer - although they'll have to pay the city $14K a month and 8 percent of the gross for the privilege. My latest for the Dorchester Reporter: www.dotnews.com/2024/city-se...
March 1, 2024 at 3:11 PM
A mobile beer garden could roll through seven Boston parks this summer - although they'll have to pay the city $14K a month and 8 percent of the gross for the privilege. My latest for the Dorchester Reporter: www.dotnews.com/2024/city-se...
Joining Bluesky with my latest for @binjreports.bsky.social - it's not Medway teens trashing a supermarket, just Mass. State Police planning to secretly spy on cell phones across the Commonwealth: horizonmass.news/2024/02/06/s...
February 7, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Joining Bluesky with my latest for @binjreports.bsky.social - it's not Medway teens trashing a supermarket, just Mass. State Police planning to secretly spy on cell phones across the Commonwealth: horizonmass.news/2024/02/06/s...