Editor’s Note: Welcome New BINJ.News Subscribers!

Recently we’ve had a big spike in new subscriptions to BINJ.News, thanks to some much-needed assistance we’ve been getting from a specialist firm recommended to us by a colleague from a major news outlet. So my BINJ colleagues Chris Faraone, John Loftus, Linda Pinkow and I just wanted to welcome all of you to this […]
Anaïse Louis Blends Art, Culture, Workwear, And Interior Design

“With my previous collection and now Harvest, I’ve settled into a particular style I want to focus on, and that’s luxury utility wear.”
There Is No Easy Answer To Massachusetts Ballot Question 3

If the referendum passes, “the two candidates receiving the most votes in the primary would advance to the general election ballot.”
Video: Our Interview With Andrea James, Independent Candidate For Massachusetts Governor

James opens up about her family’s deep ties to the commonwealth, and notes that she is running to be governor for reasons outside of the status quo
IndyMass: October 16, 2026

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 Sucks do a really nice job covering super-detailed redistricting details. ENVIRONMENT Magazine Beach plan is problematic for […]
Massachusetts Question 9: Staring Down The Ballot Of A Gun

This year, a “yes” vote on Question 9 will uphold An Act Modernizing Firearm Laws. A “no” vote will un-modernize them.
Beyond The Bachelor’s: First Massachusetts In-Prison Graduate Program Launches

Supported by a $500,000 Mellon grant, Emerson College’s new initiative at MCI-Norfolk aims to transform reentry outcomes and higher education in prison.
Question 2 Could Give Public Defenders The Right To Unionize

(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 free legal representation to criminal defendants who cannot afford an attorney, have been struggling to get the […]
Massachusetts Doesn’t Have A Public Database Of Ethics Disclosures, So He Made One

When you break it down, you discover these disclosures are actually filed in hundreds of shared drives and filing cabinets across the commonwealth.
South Bay Guards Killed Shacoby Kenny Last December. Why Are They Still Working?

BINJ is providing a fuller description of those events here based on the accounts of two witnesses, in order to inform the public about the extent of mob violence that witnesses say the guards used throughout the incident.