Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! And, wow, this is the 50th installment of this little secondary column of mine. Tempus fugit (time flies)!
HOUSING
New Bedford awarded $2.5 million to help ease housing shortage
The New Bedford Light
Barely a drop in the massive bucket of unmet need for decent housing in the Commonwealth, but good news nonetheless.
City is not in violation of Fair Housing Laws, activists say
The Flipside (Boston)
Good for the activists. Words can not describe how disgusting this racist “reverse racism” attack by the (current) feds against Boston housing programs is.
POLICE
This is the gravity we must contest
Worcester Sucks and I Love It
If you want to see a year-in-review column by a local journalist who really, really knows his town inside and out, watch how Bill Shaner takes care of business in his latest annual lookback. Especially when it comes to covering the Worcester cops.
SO-CALLED “AI”
AI Hallucination? Proposed Westfield data center appears abandoned by developers
The Shoestring (Western Mass.)
Gosh, that’s soooo weird, right?! One might almost think that the massive speculative bubble that is “AI” might be about to burst or something …
SPORTS?
Ipswich’s French family rings in the New Year with third annual polar plunge
The Local News (Ipswich)
I will never, for the life of me, understand why people do this to themselves (and us, lol).
UM … K …
Lexington mentioned in Epstein files released last week
The Lexington Observer
Most burgs are not fancy enough to even get mentioned once in the Epstein files. But Lexington? Lexington shows up a bunch of times … as with Lexington Books, “publisher of Autoerotic Fatalities” … yeeeeeeah …
IndyMass is produced for BINJ.News, the independent weekly magazine of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, by Jason Pramas and is syndicated by BINJ’s MassWire news service.
