COVID Archives

This Company Paid Massachusetts Opioid Settlement Funds, And Has Had Millions In State Contracts Since

The consulting giant McKinsey continued its work advising Mass on healthcare and other matters after paying for “illegal and dangerous partnership with Purdue Pharma”

JACOB SCHLES September 21, 2025

3D renditions of three respiratory viruses: COVID-19, RSV, and flu. Credit: NIAID. CC BY 2.0 DEED.

WHY WE’RE ALL GETTING SICK RIGHT NOW

What happens when public health, safety, and caution are thrown to the wind?

NIYA DOYLE February 2, 2024

THE PANDEMIC PAYDAY CONTINUES—FOR CONSULTANTS

Image via City Life/Vida Urbana Mass uses questionable tools to investigate eviction relief applicants State officials are spending more than $750,000 of COVID-19 aid on corporate consultants who will investigate applicants for eviction relief by running analytics on applications that housing advocates say can prevent residents from getting the relief

DAN ATKINSON April 12, 2022

SOMERVILLE WIRE: MARCH 29, 2022 WEEKLY ROUNDUP

A Racial and Social Justice Department forum, COVID recovery listening sessions, and a BIPOC Space Initiative Articles BUSINESS PROFILE: Q’S NUTS A family owned business that produces sweet and savory flavored nuts COUNCILORS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS WEIGH IN ON DIGITAL DIVIDE How immigrants face the imbalance in the world of technology

SHIRA LAUCHAROEN March 29, 2022

PANDEMIC HOUSING RELIEF: END OF AN ERA

Governor Charlie Baker tours the new Heights at Haverhill apartment community on Nov. 5, 2020. Joshua Qualls/Governor’s Press Office Mass diverts eviction relief funds to investigate fraudulent applications As thousands of Massachusetts residents face eviction, the administration of Gov. Charlie Baker is cutting back aid payments designed to keep people

DAN ATKINSON January 31, 2022

SOMERVILLE WIRE: December 7, 2021 WEEKLY ROUNDUP

Commemorating lives lost due to COVID, the College Avenue Mobility Improvements Project, and an Illuminations Bike Tour Survey SOMERVILLE LOCAL NEWS SURVEY The Somerville Wire is part of the Somerville News Garden project of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. News garden volunteers and BINJ staffers are trying to figure

SHIRA LAUCHAROEN December 7, 2021

SOMERVILLE WIRE: August 4, 2021 WEEKLY ROUNDUP

ONCE begins outdoor performances, the City urges people to mask indoors, and polling sites move to new locations

SHIRA LAUCHAROEN August 4, 2021

MASS SPENT MILLIONS ON COVID CONSULTANTS TO RATIONALIZE LETTING EVICTION MORATORIUM EXPIRE

Documents obtained from state show contractors misrepresented expert predictions, saw sunshine around every corner

DAN ATKINSON July 12, 2021

SOMERVILLE WIRE: June 8, 2021 WEEKLY ROUNDUP

Pride Month begins, a COVID ambassador program, and Union United hosts a walking tour relating to displacement Welcome to the Somerville Wire’s June 8 Weekly Roundup—a fast look at local news published every Tuesday at somervillewire.news. Readers with Somerville-focused news tips or press releases or calendar items or letter and

SHIRA LAUCHAROEN June 8, 2021

SPECIAL FEATURE: A YEAR OF DISASTER AT OLD COLONY

“People call saying, “I just can’t bear it.” “The walls are closing in on me; I can’t talk to my family; I’ve lost it.”

JEAN TROUNSTINE May 3, 2021