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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

JASON PRAMAS June 4, 2026

IndyMass: May 22, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #60. A quick one this time out folks, myself and most of the BINJ crew were at the big Cambridge Somerville Independent launch party last night. Read about that here!

JASON PRAMAS May 22, 2026

IndyMass: May 7, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #59. ARTS Armory board members are named, including leaders at Esh Circus Arts, Arlington International Film Festival Cambridge-Somerville Independent Spicier than your typical report on such matters, nine out of

JASON PRAMAS May 7, 2026

IndyMass: April 9, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #57. ARTS Classical Music Commentary: Boston’s Lost Opportunity — How the BSO Board Chose Charles Munch over Leonard Bernstein The Arts Fuse (Somerville) A really interesting deep historical look at

JASON PRAMAS April 9, 2026

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