Protesters rallied outside South Bay House of Correction last Friday, calling again for justice in the December killing of Shacoby Kenny. (Read prior BINJ coverage here). Kenny’s death was ruled a homicide by the state medical examiner’s office…
Vaccine call-in lines, new artist spaces, and Laura’s Law. Welcome to the Somerville Wire’s first Weekly Roundup—a fast look at local news published every Tuesday at somervillewire.news. Readers with Somerville-focused news tips or press releases or calendar items…
"Either they don't have people with the right expertise in charge of this process, making very embarrassing bumbles, or you literally are trying to circumvent the process." For more than a year, the Massachusetts Department of Correction has…
Journalists mounted unusual lobbying effort to help beleaguered local news outlets For those of you who didn’t notice—and you can be forgiven for that considering there’s been very little coverage of the matter in question thus far—the bill…
PHOTOS & VIDEO BY JORDAN FRIAS Jordan Frias has reported on the response to COVID-19 through our Pandemic Democracy Project for nearly a year. Published together below, his latest dispatches from the field show the movements of public…
Photo courtesy of Carmen Lamarche This article was produced by our partners at El Planeta and translated into English by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. A Spanish version can be found here. Massachusetts residents over 75 years…
Back then, we did what many said couldn’t be done. Now, we’re doing what we said we wouldn’t do.*
