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JONATHAN GERHARDSON

Massachusetts Spent A Record Amount Of Its Opioid Settlement Funds Last Year. But On What?

Examining the unpublished FY25 remediation fund report obtained for this article, including spending on services and equity grants, and millions of dollars unaccounted for

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JONATHAN GERHARDSON November 5, 2025
JACOB SCHLES

Gun Violence Prevention Grant Puts Opioid Settlement Funds Back In Communities

The Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office is spending its settlement funds from the consulting giant McKinsey on nonprofits working on gun violence prevention, urban farming, and food access

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JACOB SCHLES November 2, 2025
BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM

Video: Spare Change News And The Legacy Of Street Media

An interview with longtime Spare Change columnist and poet Marc Goldfinger

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BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM July 1, 2025
JACK GORSLINE

“STOLEN VALOR” ROCKS MASS PSYCHEDELICS COMMUNITY

Veteran impersonation act outrages Bay State activists, further muddies grassroots waters

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JACK GORSLINE June 20, 2024
JACK GORSLINE

THE ANTI COALITION

Advocates decry “shadow campaign” subverting ballot initiative to legalize psychedelics in Massachusetts

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JACK GORSLINE May 8, 2024
JACK GORSLINE

PSYCHEDELIC SHOWDOWN

From generating buzz around their cause to getting heard on Beacon Hill, psychedelics advocates had a big March. But underneath the wins, fractures in the movement as well as external opposition could undermine legalization efforts.

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JACK GORSLINE April 3, 2024
JACK GORSLINE

PSYCHEDELIC STANDOFF

One side is behind the ballot initiative to regulate access to psychedelics. The other side has been advocating and organizing grassroots efforts across New England.

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JACK GORSLINE February 8, 2024
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

CITY PARTNERS WITH FENWAY HEALTH FOR SUPERVISED CONSUMPTION SITE

Photo by Vancouver Coastal Health Managers, officials, and task force members say we must save people from overdoses (Somerville Wire) – The City of Somerville has hired the health center and research organization Fenway Health to work together on the project of opening a supervised safe consumption center, where people

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SHIRA LAUCHAROEN April 12, 2022
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

SOMERVILLE MAY CREATE A RESTITUTION PROGRAM TO ADDRESS INJUSTICES UNDER THE WAR ON DRUGS

Previously incarcerated people would get financial support from cannabis sales

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SHIRA LAUCHAROEN September 28, 2021
JULIET ISSELBACHER

PSYCHEDELIC SYNERGY

You’re not hallucinating—there is actually agreement and momentum toward psychedelic decriminalization in Mass.

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JULIET ISSELBACHER March 9, 2021
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