In this exclusive in-depth interview with BINJ reporter Jean Trounstine, independent candidate for Massachusetts governor Andrea James discusses various aspects of her platform relevant to issues including housing, education, healthcare, childcare, and opposition to a new prison for…
Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #70. EDUCATION WPS in Brief: Redistricting, Round Three Worcester Sucks and I Love It Our friends at Worcester…
A little more than two years after Gov. Maura Healey signed the sweeping Act Modernizing Firearm Laws, residents will have an opportunity to vote on whether to retain or scrap the comprehensive legislation. The effort to loosen gun…
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.…
(Special to BINJ.News) - Massachusetts residents will vote next month on whether employees at the Committee for Public Counsel Services—the state agency for public defenders and the social workers who support them—can collectively bargain. Public defenders, who provide…
So-called public records are rarely easy to obtain. That’s especially true in Massachusetts, which is demonstrably one of the least transparent states in multiple regards. In the commonwealth, even when a document or data point is technically public,…
Back then, we did what many said couldn’t be done. Now, we’re doing what we said we wouldn’t do.*
