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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

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

IndyMass: December 19, 2025

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! CULTURE ‘People Just Don’t Know Filipinos’ Sampan (Boston) Love seeing former BINJ interns published in other area news outlets (even when, in this case, the intern wrote for the outlet in question

JASON PRAMAS December 19, 2025

IndyMass: November 20, 2025

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! HIGHER EDUCATION As contract negotiations stall, UMass union to take “no confidence” vote against chancellor The Shoestring (Western Mass.) Big labor fight brewing at the flagship UMass campus. LIFESTYLE What’s next for

JASON PRAMAS November 20, 2025

IndyMass: November 6, 2025

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! ECONOMY “There’s a lot of money in death”: Funeral home consolidation hits western Mass The Shoestring (Western Mass.) Ace BINJ reporter Jonathan Gerhardson, as seen in BINJ Live #8 this week, just

JASON PRAMAS November 6, 2025