Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #58.
ARTS
Doc Talk: Local Heroes and Big Questions at Independent Film Festival Boston
The Arts Fuse (Somerville)
Boston-area documentarians continue asking the big questions in the spirit of recently deceased native son Frederick Wiseman.
CIVICS
Forty-nine new Americans sworn in on Lexington’s Battle Green, birthplace of the American Revolution
The Lexington Observer
Here’s a nice thing to remind us of what the US can be like at its best.
INJUSTICE
Ceasefire and Divest, or Cease and Desist? Lawsuit seeks to undo Northampton’s Israel-divestment resolution
The Shoestring (Western Mass.)
Pro-Israel organizations try to reverse democracy once again.
POLICE
Body-worn cameras for Somerville police come with an annual cost near a half-million dollars
Cambridge-Somerville Independent
A debate in Somerville over whether $450,000 per year for police body cameras is worth it when other city departments are facing 5% budget cuts.
Local pols demand body camera video from police shooting
The Flipside (Boston)
Cops having body cameras doesn’t guarantee justice is done if they won’t release key footage.
POLITICS
Joe Petty finally showed us who he is
Worcester Sucks and I Love It
Bill Shaner masterfully humiliates local media for cheerleading the needless arrest of a poor person for shoplifting dinner from Walmart then demonstrates how a supposedly nice Democratic Worcester mayor is in bed with the worst kind of real estate speculators.
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