Column Archives

IndyMass: March 27, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #56. ARTS Opera Review: Odyssey Opera’s “The Last Savage” Finds Wit and Warmth in Menotti’s Madcap Satire The Arts Fuse (Somerville) A work by the “populist” mid-20th-century librettist Gian Carlo

JASON PRAMAS March 27, 2026

More Antiwar Culture Is Needed To Build A Powerful Antiwar Movement

In a BINJ.News editorial last week, I found myself doing a fast analysis of the various factions I see that are for or against the US and Israeli war on Iran. My purpose was to invite people active in those factions to send in opinion articles reviewing why they have

JASON PRAMAS March 13, 2026

IndyMass: March 13, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #55. CIVIL LIBERTIES Lexington Chamber of Commerce moves fundraiser location due to ICE ties The Lexington Observer Turns out the old school Cafe Escadrille restaurant in Burlington is owned by

JASON PRAMAS March 13, 2026

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

JASON PRAMAS February 27, 2026

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

JASON PRAMAS February 27, 2026

IndyMass: January 29 and February 12, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #52 and #53. ARTS Art collectors flock to Ipswich bookshop for mini-print vending machine The Local News (Ipswich) Twenty-year-old hipster trend makes it to the outer burbs at last. EDUCATION

JASON PRAMAS February 12, 2026

Grokipedia And Me

Like many journalists, I have alerts set up on major search engines watching for any mention of my name on the Internet—to keep track of who might be trying to sue me or have me fed to sharks at any particular moment. A system that used to work better when

JASON PRAMAS January 15, 2026

IndyMass: January 15, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! EDUCATION Mayor plans to revamp Boston’s school assignment policy The Flipside (Boston) BIPOC parents concerned their kids will end up in substandard resegregated schools. ENVIRONMENT What’s next for Lexington’s waste? The Lexington

JASON PRAMAS January 15, 2026

On Venezuela, On Minneapolis, Protest Matters … Keep It Up

Running a news weekly as I do, it’s always interesting to watch the narrative around developing stories that I might comment on as a journalist change quickly over days or even hours. Such is the case with two big national and international stories of great interest to Massachusetts residents this

JASON PRAMAS January 8, 2026

IndyMass: January 2, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! And, wow, this is the 50th installment of this little secondary column of mine. Tempus fugit (time flies)! HOUSING New Bedford awarded $2.5 million to help ease housing shortage The New Bedford

JASON PRAMAS January 2, 2026