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Jason Pramas

JASON PRAMAS

Controversial Cookbooks: From Duncan Hines To Mario Batali

Since current events have been uglier than ever, I thought I’d give myself a break this week and write about my second-favorite activity next to journalism: cooking. Nothing heavy, right? I mean it’s cooking.  But no. You see, one of the fun things about cooking—certainly from my perspective as a

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JASON PRAMAS April 3, 2026
JASON PRAMAS

Take It From A Cold War Kid: The US/Israel War On Iran Risks Becoming A Global Conflagration

As I sat down to write this dispatch, like anyone else following world happenings in an even cursory manner I found myself overwhelmed by the urge to continue absorbing minute-by-minute coverage of the monstrous US and Israel war on Iran. As I have been doing nearly every waking hour since

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JASON PRAMAS March 27, 2026
JASON PRAMAS

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

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JASON PRAMAS March 27, 2026
JASON PRAMAS

Editorial: BINJ Seeks Major Donors To Support Our Intern Program

For several months, at the suggestion of Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism Board President Felicia Sullivan—who has deep experience in such matters—BINJ Development Director Linda Pinkow has been leading our search for educational and vocational training grants that we can use to fund our truly large reporting intern program. However,

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JASON PRAMAS March 20, 2026
JASON PRAMAS

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

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JASON PRAMAS March 13, 2026
JASON PRAMAS

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

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JASON PRAMAS March 13, 2026
JASON PRAMAS

Photos: 27th Maple Boil Down at the Somerville Growing Center

Somerville, Mass. – Last Saturday, volunteers joined staff members of the Somerville Growing Center for the 27th Maple Boil Down of its Somerville Maple Syrup project. Sap tapped from maple trees at Tufts University was boiled down into “pre-syrup” over the course of a few hours. A second boil at

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JASON PRAMAS March 12, 2026
JASON PRAMAS

Editorial: BINJ.News Seeks Opinion Articles From Iran War Street Protest Groups

On the latest episode of our weekly BINJ Live show on YouTube, Chris Faraone and I unpacked our thinking about covering various actions against the Iran War around Massachusetts being something we can reasonably do as local news publishers with no “boots on the ground” in any countries directly affected

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JASON PRAMAS March 5, 2026
JASON PRAMAS

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

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JASON PRAMAS February 27, 2026
JASON PRAMAS

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

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JASON PRAMAS February 27, 2026
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