Watch: ‘King Of Pop Culture’ Gary Sohmers On BINJ Live
Legendary appraiser talks retro and collectibles, alternative press, and music history
BINJ Ed Director Talks Massachusetts Opioid Settlement Coverage At NICAR
Chris Faraone joined cohort from Data-Driven Reporting Project at Northwestern University
Photos: 27th Maple Boil Down at the Somerville Growing Center
Somerville, Mass. – Last Saturday, volunteers joined staff members of the Somerville Growing Center for the 27th Maple Boil Down of its Somerville Maple Syrup project. Sap tapped from maple trees at Tufts University was boiled down into “pre-syrup” over the course of a few hours. A second boil at a local culinary facility is […]
Public Health Officials Holding Opioid Remediation Fund Listening Sessions In Western Mass
With tens of millions still unspent, Massachusetts is soliciting public input on how to use money meant to mitigate damage wrought by the opioid epidemic
Organizers, Community Debate Success Of Black Lives Matter
Cambridge, Mass. – On February 24, as Black History Month came to a close, a Cambridge-based civic organization reflected on one of the most defining and divisive movements of the digital era. Years after the Black Lives Matter movement’s 2020 peak—when protests swept through cities across the United States and around the globe—organizers of the […]
Editorial: BINJ.News Seeks Opinion Articles From Iran War Street Protest Groups
On the latest episode of our weekly BINJ Live show on YouTube, Chris Faraone and I unpacked our thinking about covering various actions against the Iran War around Massachusetts being something we can reasonably do as local news publishers with no “boots on the ground” in any countries directly affected by the conflict … so […]
Gov. Healey Should Bet On Beneficial Tech, Not So-Called ‘AI’
Perhaps I’d be less concerned about Gov. Maura Healey’s recent cheerleading for so-called “AI” if she would join a growing camp of experts in dropping the PR misnomer “artificial intelligence” when describing evolutionary improvements in dozens of areas of computing technology. Tech which does many discrete things—some very well, some pretty well, and some quite […]
IndyMass: February 27, 2026
Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #54. ARTS Somerville gets a cabinet-level arts czar in addition to a new leader for Arts Council in mayor’s plan Cambridge-Somerville Independent My first post from the newest news outlet to serve both Cambridge and […]
Former Harvard Researcher Hilde-Kari Guttormsen Continues To Ask Questions About Society Through Art
When Hilde-Kari Guttormsen read a scientific report from her alma mater, the University of Bergen, revealing the discovery of 2,000 to 8,000-year-old stone carvings in Western Norway, something caught her eye. Amid scenes etched into the rocks depicting men, weapons and hunting was an animal carrying a baby inside it, whose head lay right where […]
Massachusetts State Police Are On A Drone Surveillance Shopping Spree
Ahead of World Cup, MSP seeks the latest drone-hijacking software and long-range surveillance cameras to monitor large public gatherings