Charlie Rosario earned his BA behind bars in 2022. As he explained in a recent interview, he was part of the first Emerson Prison Initiative (EPI) college cohort, at the time located at MCI-Concord, which closed in 2024.…
I was the first reporter to cover the threat of Automatic (or Automated) License Plate Readers in Massachusetts. Long before the letters ALPR crept into the common lexicon, and more than a decade before companies like Flock Safety…
One development seems particularly noteworthy from this week’s primaries: There looks to be an emerging democratic socialist faction at the State House based in Cambridge and Somerville. Joining longtime Rep. Mike Connolly of Cambridge (who just beat a…
Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #67. ELECTIONS Western Massachusetts incumbents sweep primary elections The Shoestring (Western Mass.) Interesting take on an otherwise predictable…
It was almost two months ago that the final World Cup whistle echoed through Foxborough. In the time since FIFA’s seven successful events in the commonwealth, which spurred satellite celebrations statewide, most public dialogue about the games has…
In a time when many Americans and even mainstream news outlets are increasingly wary of creeping police and surveillance technology, the Boston Globe partnered with and published a pay-to-play plug for Big Brother. The regional outlet of record’s…
Back then, we did what many said couldn’t be done. Now, we’re doing what we said we wouldn’t do.*
