
How A High-Stakes Showdown Ended In A Rare Governor’s Council ‘No’ Vote
Following the Memorial Drive shooting, the nomination tested a new council’s ability to bring more checks and balances to the Massachusetts Parole Board

Following the Memorial Drive shooting, the nomination tested a new council’s ability to bring more checks and balances to the Massachusetts Parole Board

Vaccine call-in lines, new artist spaces, and Laura’s Law.

“Either they don’t have people with the right expertise in charge of this process, making very embarrassing bumbles, or you literally are trying to circumvent the process.”

Journalists mounted unusual lobbying effort to help beleaguered local news outlets

Jordan Frias has reported on the response to COVID-19 through our Pandemic Democracy Project for nearly a year. Published together below, his three latest dispatches from the field show the

“If I haven’t been able to get it for myself, what will this mean for them?”

Another season, another bunch of BINJ reporting interns. I wanted to take this opportunity to welcome our incoming summer cohort (size TBA as we’re still interviewing candidates)—already clearly another talented crew from a wildly diverse array of backgrounds, as has been typical of every group of interns since we started