The road to the World Cup is paved with promises and press releases. For well over a year before the first kickoff of the most recent tournament in June, FIFA and its hosts published a dizzying amount of…
A park on Somerville Avenue becomes the subject of a heated argument. Nestled in southern Somerville sits Conway Park, a once-inviting green space with a past life of children enjoying its playground and young athletes playing on its…
"I am acutely aware that it is absolutely impossible for me to do justice to what the city deserves in terms of news." Julia Taliesin is the only reporter at the Somerville Journal, a newspaper that covers a…
Despite effective short-term measures, long-term homelessness persists in Mass Joe Finn was beating a very different drum in November and December of 2020. At the time, the executive director of the Mass Housing and Shelter Alliance (MHSA) feared…
How street medics bolster protests in more ways than you may realize Throughout 2020, crowds took to the streets to protest the police. This week, with the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on Wednesday, there will…
Mass respondents shed light on COVID atrocities in new national survey An ongoing survey by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard University Medical School is the first of its kind to document conditions for prisoners during…
Back then, we did what many said couldn’t be done. Now, we’re doing what we said we wouldn’t do.*
