Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #60. A quick one this time out folks, myself and most of the BINJ crew were at the big Cambridge Somerville Independent launch party last night. Read about that here!
HOUSING
Cambridge’s first social housing project may already be identified, and a task force hasn’t even met
Cambridge Somerville Independent
Absolutely thrilled to see any American municipality talking seriously about following the lead of Europe and much of the developed world to implement multi-class social housing.
POLICE
Hampden sheriff last local holdout for controversial anti-terrorism partnership
The Shoestring (Western Mass.)
The Hampden County Sheriff’s Office continues to throw sand in the wheels of progress.
Police, courts maintain flow of information to ICE officials
The Flipside (Boston)
I could have also filed this article under “immigration,” but that would take the spotlight off what amounts to the latest acts of malfeasance by conservative cops (and screws) here in the Commonwealth.
POLITICS
A Sturbridge resident is trying to run for a Worcester state rep seat
Worcester Sucks and I Love It
Living in one town and running for office in another?! Naughty, naughty … Bill Shaner with the latest from the circus that is Central Mass. politics.
IndyMass is produced for BINJ.News, the independent weekly magazine of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, by Jason Pramas and is syndicated by BINJ’s MassWire news service.
