Free Speech Crackdowns On The Rise At Boston-Area Colleges Amid National Spike
BOSTON – Speech crackdown efforts at American colleges targeted more than twice as many individuals in 2025 as they did in 2024, according to data from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a First Amendment legal advocacy group. Boston area colleges have not been spared. The number of college students, faculty members and university-affiliated […]
Editor’s Note: BINJ.News Taking Next Week Off
Yes, it’s “vacation” for me this coming week for the first time in several months … and my colleagues are insisting that I try to make it more of a real one than usual by actually giving BINJ.News the week off, too. So, we’ll publish no newsletter next Friday and perhaps we’ll skip next Tuesday’s […]
IndyMass: June 4, 2026
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 […]
Straying From The Flock: The Potential Of Black-Bagging Surveillance Cameras
Flock Safety has a $7.5 billion valuation, a massive drone lab, and a brand-new Boston office. It can also be defeated by a fifty-cent piece of plastic.
Photos: Boston 2026 World Expo
BOSTON – As hobbies go, philately, or stamp collecting as it’s more commonly known, is inexpensive given that the vast majority of stamps on the planet are available for very small sums. I’ve spent maybe $3,000 on it since I started collecting stamps (sporadically) at age 8, about a third of that total in the […]
Hampden Sheriff Last Local Holdout For Controversial Anti-Terrorism Partnership
Almost every local agency has left an anti-terrorism partnership with the FBI. With President Trump attempting to leverage it to stifle dissent, records show one local agency remains.
Eviction Looms For Unhoused Youth At Wellington Station After Alleged Arson
Transit Police have given them until Friday to clear their Medford campsite, just weeks after a fire nearly claimed their lives
IndyMass: May 22, 2026
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 […]
Editor’s Note: Support The Cambridge Somerville Independent
Readers may be dimly aware that I’m releasing this note (and our accompanying BINJ.News weekly newsletter) later on Friday than I do most weeks. That’s because most of the BINJ staff and I were pleased to have been invited to table at an important event: IndieFest, a launch party and fundraiser for our colleagues at […]
The Final Division: Inside The Heartbreak And Chaos Of Hampshire’s Closure
Amherst, Mass. — The Amherst student community was recently shaken by the decision to permanently close Hampshire College. The liberal arts school has experienced severe financial strain due to a lack of resources since before the pandemic, and has not been able to keep up all of its critical operations and responsibilities. According to an […]