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CASE OPEN (A FIRE SALE FOLLOW-UP)

Connecticut high court ruling opens up Mass gun seller to Newtown lawsuit

CURTIS WALTMAN March 26, 2019

ARC OF THE MORAL UNIVERSE

Mass State Police and local law enforcement have spent millions amassing an arsenal of Tasers, but there’s minimal accountability for those doing the purchasing, or for those doing the tasing

BINJ ONLINE February 27, 2019

ASSIST OUR INVESTIGATION INTO GUN SALES IN MASS

Thanks to MuckRock, we are excited to announce that you—readers, community members, reporters, anyone—can dig through all these documents along with us by simply clicking onto this portal.

CHRIS FARAONE January 12, 2019

FIRE SALE PT. 1 1/2

More about how police solicitation of guns and other combat gear is done solely by departments that weigh options and decide on agreements, without any scrutiny from other agencies.

CHRIS FARAONE November 22, 2018

FIRE SALE PT. 1

Even for weapons dealers who have flouted state laws, there is major money to be made by selling munitions to police in Massachusetts

CHRIS FARAONE September 27, 2018

PSA DOA

How an ostensibly progressive administration got credit for helping to protect a vulnerable minority community without bothering to research the impact of its efforts

CLAIRE SADAR July 31, 2018

UMASS BOSTON’S LAST REMAINING PAINTER

A ‘Save UMB’ profile We sit in the Ryan Lounge, a capacious, high-ceilinged hall with a harbor view. It’s a favorite hang-out for UMass Boston students, as well as one of the most popular spaces on campus for conferences and special events. The podium at the front of the lounge

JOE RAMSEY January 7, 2018

SMALL TOWN SWAT TEAM

A special investigation into the ‘militarization of Mayberry’ in Mass For a police department of only 40 officers, the April 23, 2015, raid by Ludlow Special Response Team had to be an all-hands-on-deck affair. At shortly past five o’clock in the morning, a team of 12 Ludlow officers — amounting to more than

SETH KERSHNER November 15, 2017

POWER STRUGGLE

Regulators infuriate activists with announcement that power plant will stay open About 300 residents of Cape Cod and the South Shore packed into the ballroom of Hotel 1620 in Plymouth last Tuesday, hoping to finally get some answers from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) about the future of the beleaguered operation

MIRIAM WASSER February 6, 2017

TRASH TO TABLE

Everything you didn’t want to know about cannibal swine and trash feeding, from Mass to the UK BY EVAN C. ANDERSON AND KATIE CAMPISI On a crisp fall day in 2007, a Massachusetts motorcyclist was headed home on I-93 North, enjoying the New England air, the light and sweet smell of the fallen leaves,

KATIE CAMPISI December 7, 2016