Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #61. Another quick one this time out …
MEDIA
“Loss of local autonomy”: With GBH, NEPM merger looming, what’s next for local public media?
The Shoestring (Western Mass.)
GBH is doing the Borg thing to a smaller NPR outlet. Will the people of Western Mass. gain or lose?
POLICE
Brookline votes to bar ICE from town property, study end to federal intelligence sharing
The Flipside (Boston)
The tony burb surrounded by Boston does a good thing limiting ICE’s presence, but chokes on leaving the Boston Regional Intelligence Center.
POLITICS
In a rematch of Decker and MacKay, her challenger from 2024, good government remains the theme
Cambridge Somerville Independent
Now this contest is one spicy meat-a-ball! A popular left-wing candidate with a significant street operation going for Round 2 with an establishment pol who, one day after this article dropped, voted together with the entire Democratic delegation except for her Cambridge colleague Rep. Mike Connolly, to attempt to screw Auditor Diana DiZoglio’s attempt to carry out the will of the people who voted overwhelmingly in favor of a 2024 ballot question giving her the power to audit the legislature. This is going to be a crazy race.
Echoes From the Past: Citizen Petitions Shape Governance and Tenor in Sudbury
The Sudbury Weekly
An amazingly deep dive into the political history of another wealthy town with wild 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.
