Essay Archive

Every published argument, newest first.

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    Joseph Mokrisky States Select Facts

    Joseph Mokrisky signed Tom Calter’s amendment fourteen days before telling Stoughton the contract had been renewed about a month and a half earlier.

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    The Art of the Feel

    Dave Portnoy’s rejected ghostwriter sends me through Boston print, ghostwriting, childhood reading, family memory, and artificial intelligence to find what keeps my voice mine on the page.

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    MGB Nurses Know

    Mass General Brigham calls itself one system, yet no publicly identified rank-and-file worker sits on its Board—a unity that reserves governing power for management.

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    Halter Thomas Calter

    Donna McNamara’s complaint places Thomas Calter’s alleged demand to destroy a second Birchmore report before the Select Board; his supervisors must test the allegation on the record.

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    The 37 Connectors

    Mass General Brigham and Thermo Fisher Scientific share thirty-seven documented relationship families; recurrence warrants scrutiny without turning proximity into proof.

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    Dogs of MGB

    Scott Sperling and Marc Casper sit on the Boards of Mass General Brigham and Thermo Fisher Scientific, making conflict and recusal records a public question.

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    THE MGB Master Control Program

    Mass General Brigham concentrates oversight of pension assets and central investment pools in a single Board committee whose authority is governed by ERISA’s duty of loyalty.

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    The ERISA Lottery

    The Massachusetts Lottery publishes a traceable path for each sales dollar, while Plan 499’s public filings don’t show participants one reconciled line from authorization to net result.

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    Inside the MGB Financial Machine

    Mass General Brigham’s pension structure places billions in a Master Trust overseen by a Board without a nurse, leaving Plan 499 participants to demand fiduciary answers.