500 Mass properties, 20 Delaware addresses, and one costly loophole

The mechanism at the heart of this ongoing shell game is the notorious “Delaware loophole,” which allows companies to move so-called intangible assets to largely opaque subsidiaries in the Mid-Atlantic haven. In practice, corporations are able to legally avoid paying certain burdensome taxes. It’s all very confusing, to be sure—that’s how these relationships and pass-throughs are apparently designed. But in surveying the larger landscape, some patterns are clear; in particular, the city of Boston as well as the Commonwealth are potentially losing millions of dollars in tax revenue annually.

Without Nightclubs, Boston DJs Keep the Pulse Going

Legendary Chicago dance music DJ Aaron-Carl once opined about house music: "It's not just a groove. House is a feeling." As Boston enters nearly half a year of COVID-19 related closures, the DJs of the Hub stare down the barrel of a year without nightclubs being open. But it's that feeling Aaron-Carl expressed which has kept Boston's DJs booked and busy even through these challenging times. They are finding ways to make the dance floor experience more accessible and intimate than ever.

Field Notes from the Paradigm Shift

Back when I had a car, late at night, I would often find myself speeding down Circuit Drive in Franklin Park. Entering the drive off Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester, I would test my impulses pushing 35, 40, 45 as the road twisted downhill towards the Shattuck. Never in my life would I have imagined that one day, in a time of great unrest, the entire drive from end to end would be filled with demonstrators, white and Black and all in between.

An Abridged History of Renters' Movements in Boston

As part of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the nation was rocked on April 1st by a rent strike as a near third of American renters did not deliver their expected rent. Whether impromptu or planned, an action of this scale, for this generation, is unprecedented — but it’s far from the first of its kind. In Boston, a city heralded for its revolutionary origins, renters’ movements have had their own largely unacknowledged history.
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