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JACK GORSLINE

Meet One Of The Young Advocates Advancing Psychedelics In Massachusetts

With one milestone already behind him, Tim Morris says that securing “at-home cultivation” of plant medicine like psilocybin will be “the real milestone.”

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JACK GORSLINE August 20, 2025
JASON PRAMAS

Editorial: Public Grantmaking Can Help Mass Indy News Outlets Survive

BINJ would like to work with fellow journalists and allied organizations to convince our state legislature to give it a shot

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JASON PRAMAS July 24, 2025
JEAN TROUNSTINE

SECOND LOOK

Massachusetts lawmakers are considering legislation that would reexamine harsh and mandatory prison sentences. The policy, which follows national trends, could have a significant impact on more than 1,800 people behind bars and their families.

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JEAN TROUNSTINE October 3, 2023
Protestors cheer at June 15, 2023 indigenous rights rally in front of the Mass State House as Jean-Luc Pierite gives a speech. Photo by Yaakov Aldrich. Copyright 2023 Yaakov Aldrich.
YAAKOV ALDRICH

MASS ACTIVISTS AND LAWMAKERS RALLY AROUND INDIGENOUS LEGISLATIVE AGENDA

The raft of five bills is years in the making, and has revitalized community advocacy despite facing an uphill battle in the State House

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YAAKOV ALDRICH August 3, 2023
Somerville City Councilor-at-Large Willie Burnley, Jr. Courtesy photo.
WILLIE BURNLEY JR

OPINION: MY PRIDE IS A RIOT AGAINST WHITE SUPREMACY

“As a Black and queer person, I know that when a person’s very existence is criminalized it inevitably results in fear, hate crimes, and death.” The rain poured down on me and a cadre of queer and trans youth in front of the bricked facade of Somerville’s City Hall. The

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WILLIE BURNLEY JR June 7, 2022
JULIET ISSELBACHER

SPECIAL FEATURE ON PSYCHEDELIC DECRIMINALIZATION IN MASS

You’re not hallucinating—there is actually agreement and momentum toward psychedelic decriminalization in Mass. (Somerville Wire) – “There was very rarely a day that I would go without being in a tremendous amount of pain,” Jennifer Stell said, describing the cluster headaches that began to strike when she was just eight

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JULIET ISSELBACHER March 10, 2021
Screenshot of MA journalism commission law text
BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM

JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA ADVOCATES TO SUGGEST PICKS FOR MA JOURNALISM COMMISSION SEATS

A joint press release by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and Free Press Action

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BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM February 10, 2021
Washington Street, Newspaper Row (in Boston a century ago)
JASON PRAMAS

HELP SAVE LOCAL NEWS! ASK YOUR MA STATE REP TO BACK AMENDMENT #40 TODAY!

[W]e’re asking all readers who are concerned about the collapse of local news media to contact your state representative and ask them to cosponsor Amendment #40 of H. 4879. The more cosponsors the amendment has, the more likely House Ways and Means will pass it. If that happens it has a good chance of making it through the full legislative process for this session. And becoming a law. Which would be a promising outcome for the future of local news in the Commonwealth. 

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JASON PRAMAS July 26, 2020
Transportation
DAN ATKINSON

LANDLORDS CAN’T EVICT DURING PANDEMIC, BUT A BUNCH OF THEM TRIED

“It was sort of testing the water with it, seeing what [evictions] they can get away with. This legislation stopped folks in their tracks before it caught on.”

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DAN ATKINSON April 29, 2020
JASON PRAMAS

IT’S TIME TO BRING BACK RENT CONTROL IN MASSACHUSETTS

  Some cause for hope in new tenant protection legislation being filed at the State House Yesterday, I saw some good news in the local press. A rarity to be sure. The Boston Globe reported that Rep. Mike Connolly and a coalition of other state legislators are about to file

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JASON PRAMAS March 27, 2019
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