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MORE TICKETS, MORE TOWS, MORE FEES

Boston aims to beef up parking enforcement. We took a deep dive into the request for proposal to forecast their highly profitable plans. Boston officials are looking to upgrade the city’s massive parking enforcement management system, which brings in $60 million a year through more than a million parking tickets

DAN ATKINSON November 23, 2021

CHAIN REACTION

Coffee shop workers organize, inspire others Labor organizing in the Boston area has gotten a hip makeover. Two local coffee shop chains, Pavement & Darwin’s Ltd., have had their employees vote to form unions. These baristas have been the unlikely stars of the progressive left in Boston this past summer:

CHRIS HUES November 17, 2021

NATIVE AMERICANS, QUINCY EXTEND “OLIVE BRANCH” TO BOSTON

Photo by Doc Searls Mayor Wu’s promise of halting the construction of the Long Island Bridge generates cautious optimism Following a tumultuous and historic election, Boston’s new Mayor Michelle Wu will start off her term facing innumerable challenges as well as opportunities. With political fervor receding, anticipation is growing over

DYLAN J. HEARN November 17, 2021

FEATURE FOLLOWUP: REVISITING RECYCLING

It took decades for workers doing this dangerous job to get a living wage. But are their problems finally sorted out? For the first time ever, Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville are boosting the pay for the workers who sort their recyclables after resolving a decades-long stalemate with a regional company.

COLE ROSENGREN November 10, 2021

THE FLOOD: MASS HAS A RUNOFF PROBLEM. WHAT’S BEING DONE?

Thanks to stormwater pollution, Dirty Water’s more than just a theme song. It’s a way of life.

EMILEE KLEIN July 25, 2021

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: INSCRUTABLE SCHOOLS

How bureaucratic dysfunction prevents a reckoning with physical student restraint in Boston Public Schools

DANIEL DEFRAIA July 5, 2021

BINJ IMPACT ON THE SURVEILLANCE FRONT IN BOSTON

We have continued to cover these issues with our publishing partners, most recently via Dan Atkinson and his excellent work for DigBoston.

CHRIS FARAONE June 8, 2021

FRAGMENTED MASS VACCINATION SITE AND SYSTEM MAKE FOR UNCERTAINTY

The state’s map of vaccination sites is missing several locations. Here’s why.

POLINA WHITEHOUSE February 15, 2021

INSIDE THE BATTLE OVER A NEW WOMEN’S PRISON FOR MASSACHUSETTS

“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.”

DAN ATKINSON February 8, 2021

FROM MASS TESTING TO MASS INOCULATION: A COVID RESPONSE IN THREE SCENES

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 movements of public health workers and officials on the ground, as they continue testing for coronavirus and attempt to get as many vaccines into biceps as possible.

JORDAN FRIAS February 3, 2021