Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State!
EDUCATION
Armed With Thoreau Scholarship, Former Chinatown Student Hopes to Give Back
Sampan (Boston)
Success stories make for great local news.
Voters rejected a high-stakes test as a graduation requirement. Education activists fear the state may be planning a new one
The Flipside (Boston)
Wow, the right-wing is definitely feeling frisky with this kind of nonsense effort: trying to revive high-stakes testing for public school students while “(e)ducation advocates have long maintained that standardized test scores better measure parental incomes than student learning.”
ENVIRONMENT
Springfield’s “zombie plant” is reanimated once again
The Shoestring (Western Mass.)
A proposal to build an environmentally destructive biomass power plant in Springfield apparently won’t die.
HOUSING
With end-of-year deadline looming, Boxford mulls new 3A option
The Local News (Ipswich)
Yes, yet another well-to-do predominantly white suburb continues to fail to produce more housing in violation of the MBTA Communities Act.
PROTEST
Lexington’s No Kings protest draws over 6,000 people to site of the first battle of the American Revolution
The Lexington Observer
OK, even I have to admit that it’s impressive that “America’s second safest and richest” community of 2025 could pull that many people to a (moderately) left-leaning political rally.
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