IndyMass: June 18, 2026
Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #62. ARTS Ipswich’s Reilly Miner reflects on eight months in Cambodia The Local News (Ipswich) Interesting music diplomacy. Arts Commentary: The Kennedy Center and the Boston Symphony Orchestra — A Tale of Two Crises The […]
Economic Mobility Increasingly Linked To Family Wealth in Boston, Report Finds
Waltham, Mass. – A new report, “Leveraging Mobility in Boston: Economic Well-Being and the Flow of Wealth Across Three Generations of Low- and Middle-Income Families,” was completed after researchers lost federal funding and turned to local support to continue a decades-long study of wealth, housing and inequality. Researchers at Brandeis University’s Institute for Economic and […]
Q+A: Psyched For Pride’s Tesserae LaSalle
“What’s needed is clear, accessible guidance and ethical standards—not prohibitive licensing requirements that ensure only wealthy, predominantly white practitioners can enter the field.”
Creative Remediation: The Mass Municipality Bucking Trends With ‘Social Prescriptions’
Using opioid settlement funds, Franklin is sending patients to explore creativity and interests
Roxbury International Film Fest Continues To Nurture Talent And Community
Largest New England festival dedicated to films by, for, and about people of color returns this week
Help Us Continue Our Coverage Of The Opioid Crisis
Next up, our focus will expand to examining whether remediation funds have made a difference in the fight against addiction
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
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 […]