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REAL TROOPERS & BEEPER DAYS

Consultants told Mass State Police how to avoid turmoil. The department ignored the advice and spent the following two decades spiraling toward boundless corruption.

CHRIS FARAONE October 10, 2019

THERE’S MUCH MORE TO THE MASS STATE POLICE SCANDAL THAN IS BEING REPORTED

“Pullman, Lynch and others were also allegedly involved in a scheme to defraud two different companies that sought to do business with the Commonwealth.”

CHRIS FARAONE August 21, 2019

BINJ WINS AWARDS FOR POLITICAL COLUMN AND FIRST AMENDMENT JOURNALISM

We also had the honor of giving out a prize of our own, the “BINJ Award,” which we sponsored to acknowledge the “Best Nonprofit Collaboration.”

BINJ ONLINE July 21, 2019

FIRE SALE FINALE: BIG BANG THEORY

Gun laws, limits, and licensing in Mass—in perception and reality

BINJ ONLINE May 8, 2019

PROPOSED STATE JOURNALISM COMMISSION NEEDS BROADER MEMBERSHIP

IMAGE: Sandstorm State House collage by Jason Pramas (using public domain images) More working journalists, less elite institutes Chris Faraone,* John Loftus,** and I spend a lot of time thinking about how to rebuild American journalism. Pretty much from the ground up, since so many news outlets and jobs in

JASON PRAMAS March 20, 2019

SANCTUARY STATUS

The eerily familiar tale of Shadrach Minkins and the centuries-old federal threat to our Commonwealth

ZACK HUFFMAN March 7, 2019

THE FALL OF THE GE BOSTON DEAL, PART II

AG Healey should form independent commission to investigate the failed agreement Last week in the first installment of this two-part column, I ran through the many problems with the January 2016 deal between General Electric, the city of Boston, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that has now collapsed for

JASON PRAMAS March 6, 2019

THE FALL OF THE GE BOSTON DEAL, PART I

The official narrative and the real story Readers might feel that this should be a time for me to take a victory lap. The GE Boston deal that I criticized from the moment it was made public in January 2016 has crashed to Earth a bit over three years later.

JASON PRAMAS February 28, 2019

SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY SUMMIT

Convening a city to improve its news media

JASON PRAMAS February 21, 2019

F.I.G.H.T. SUBOXONE: HOW DID WE GET HERE?

By 2014, it was a full-court press, with Suboxone lobbyists pushing more than 10 bills on Beacon Hill

F.I.G.H.T. February 12, 2019