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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
PARIS HUGLEY

Organizers, Community Debate Success Of Black Lives Matter

Cambridge, Mass. – On February 24, as Black History Month came to a close, a Cambridge-based civic organization reflected on one of the most defining and divisive movements of the digital era.  Years after the Black Lives Matter movement’s 2020 peak—when protests swept through cities across the United States and

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PARIS HUGLEY 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
JASON PRAMAS

IndyMass: January 29 and February 12, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #52 and #53. ARTS Art collectors flock to Ipswich bookshop for mini-print vending machine The Local News (Ipswich) Twenty-year-old hipster trend makes it to the outer burbs at last. EDUCATION

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JASON PRAMAS February 12, 2026
JASON PRAMAS

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

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JASON PRAMAS January 15, 2026
TOM MEYERS

Opinion: Teachers Shouldn’t Fund Genocide With Our Pensions

As a Massachusetts educator and proud member of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, I am heartened that our union recently voted to support Rep. Erika Uyterhoeven’s (D-Somerville) bill, H.2984: An Act Relative to Pension Divestment from Companies Providing Military Equipment to the State of Israel. This bill represents a simple but

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TOM MEYERS January 14, 2026
MARC LEVY

Cambridge’s Comedy Studio Hosts Hump! Festival

No matter how much porn you’ve watched, it’s almost certain you haven’t seen the clips in Hump!, the touring DIY film festival coming to Cambridge this spring. The annual festival—screening twice April 16 at the Comedy Studio in Harvard Square—packs a veritable orgy of tones and types into 24 films

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MARC LEVY January 8, 2026
JASON PRAMAS

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

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JASON PRAMAS January 2, 2026
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