Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #63 and #64.
BUSINESS
Low rents in a CRA program offer expansions to Cini Coffee, Momma’s Grocery and the eco-friendly Green Tiger
Cambridge Somerville Independent
Interesting new Cambridge to prevent the displacement of at least a few small businesses by offering lower rents in a property that the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority bought for the purpose.
EDUCATION
A Year Into Sudbury’s New Reading Curriculum, the Report Card Is Mixed
Sudbury Weekly
The introduction of the EL Education curriculum didn’t go quite as well with K-3 students as it did with higher grades when their performance slipped in early reading skills.
State education officials prepare to move forward with new graduation test
The Flipside (Boston)
Oh, yay, a replacement for MCAS, just what no one wanted!
ENVIRONMENT
Warming waters bring wave of jellyfish to Ipswich
The Local News (Ipswich)
Warming oceans make lots of zooplankton for jellyfish to eat … and boom goes the jellyfish population.
Newbury dam removal may offer blueprint for controversial Ipswich project
The Local News (Ipswich)
Environmentalists work to calm locals about the proposed takedown of the Ipswich Mills Dam.
HEALTH
Cambridge and Somerville risk levels for West Nile Virus are raised to ‘moderate’
Cambridge Somerville Independent
Who else remembers when we didn’t have to be scared of getting anything scary from mosquitos up here in New England every summer and fall like clockwork?
HOUSING
Despite rent control defeat, tenants continue organizing
The Shoestring (Western Mass.)
After the SJC shot down the rent control ballot question, housing activists decamp to local strategies.
POLITICS
An Update from the Sudbury DEI Commission
Sudbury Weekly
Interesting op-ed showing that Sudbury rabbis resisted the temptation to push the highly controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Antisemitism that equates criticism of Israel with antisemitism.
Blue Mass blues: Local progressives face resistance as socialist candidates win in other states
The Flipside (Boston)
More mainstream Dems, including “progressives,” freak out as voters start clamoring for more left-wing politicians. Though, personally, I question how left wing some DSA leaders actually are.
SO-CALLED “AI”
“Ban! Ban! Ban!”: Data-center discontent reaches western Massachusetts
The Shoestring (Western Mass.)
Enraged Western Mass. residents taking down data centers one town at a time.
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