IndyMass: November 6, 2025
Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! ECONOMY “There’s a lot of money in death”: Funeral home consolidation hits western Mass The Shoestring (Western Mass.) Ace BINJ reporter Jonathan Gerhardson, as seen in BINJ Live #8 this week, just had penned this great investigative […]
Massachusetts Spent A Record Amount Of Its Opioid Settlement Funds Last Year. But On What?
Examining the unpublished FY25 remediation fund report obtained for this article, including spending on services and equity grants, and millions of dollars unaccounted for
Opinion: More Radioactive Waste With Nowhere To Go
The experimental technology promoted by the governor, the nuclear industry, and some academic institutions is still on the drawing board and has no proven cost parameters
Beyond Boston: Fighting Poverty And Prison With College In Worcester
Prison education in Massachusetts: Inside Clark University’s program to leverage education’s proven power to cut recidivism
Gun Violence Prevention Grant Puts Opioid Settlement Funds Back In Communities
The Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office is spending its settlement funds from the consulting giant McKinsey on nonprofits working on gun violence prevention, urban farming, and food access
Five Deaths In Less Than A Month In Massachusetts Prisons
Connecting BINJ reporting on Department of Correction health care to news of multiple “medical emergencies”
Roast The News: A BINJ 10-Year Anniversary Event
Join the BINJ crew and some of our funniest friends on Saturday, Nov. 8 in Cambridge for an afternoon of lampooning what’s left of the media
Editorial: BINJ.News Replaces HorizonMass
Since August, my Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism colleagues Chris Faraone, John Loftus, Linda Pinkow and I have been alerting our growing audience to the fact that we decided the title of our independent weekly news magazine needed to take advantage of our better-known 10-year-old brand name BINJ. So we are pleased to announce that […]
Boston-Area Filipinos Connect And Educate Through Cuisine And Culture
A small community builds its own opportunities for connection in the big city
Opinion: Palestinian-American Teacher Thanks SEU For Endorsing Question 3
“I want to say thank you to my Somerville Educators Union, who endorsed Question 3, because we teachers know that the children of Palestine are our children, too”