A roundup of recent articles from the Massachusetts independent press
Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State!
ARTS
Arts Appreciation: Ozzy Osbourne — He Was One of Us
The Arts Fuse
He was a rich guy who was once one of us, yes. And he made some great music back in the day.
CIVIL LIBERTIES
Protesters ask council to look out for detainees, but municipal powers weak in dealing with ICE
Cambridge Day
It’s true … there’s not much local governments can do to challenge the feds …
Boston police deploy surveillance tech without council approval
The Flipside (Boston)
… in fact, local governments can’t even get their own cops to obey their edicts …
Surveillance state comes to Chicopee
The Shoestring (Western Mass.)
Yes, even random small burgs have become panopticons.
ICE flights move from Hanscom to Portsmouth
The Lexington Observer
Looks like NH activists will have to take it from here … nice of the cop to tell the Mass activists that the flights aren’t leaving from Hanscom anymore, though.
GOVERNMENT
MassDOT has “change of heart,” will attend public meeting on Five Corners redesign
The Local News (Ipswich)
The state deigns to grace a local meeting with its presence … under duress …
ENVIRONMENT
State of Water Emergency Declared in Burlington
Burlington Buzz
Our now-customary summer drought spreads.
HISTORY
Immigrant History Trail to Document Half Century of Boston Busing Struggle
Sampan
Interesting event on July 30.
HOUSING
Marblehead board maps strategy after housing law referendum defeat
Marblehead Current
Yet another bunch of racist white suburbanites shoot their municipal budget in the face because they’re unwilling to even go through the motions of filing plans to develop multifamily housing if it means complying with the MBTA Communities Act in a way that might result in a few BIPOC families moving too close to their McMansions at some point in the distant future. Hilariously, most of them are also Democrats.
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