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 […]

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 […]

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 […]