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IndyMass: October 16, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #70. EDUCATION WPS in Brief: Redistricting, Round Three Worcester Sucks and I Love It Our friends at Worcester Sucks do a really nice job covering super-detailed redistricting details. ENVIRONMENT Magazine

JASON PRAMAS October 16, 2026

Beyond The Bachelor’s: First Massachusetts In-Prison Graduate Program Launches

Supported by a $500,000 Mellon grant, Emerson College’s new initiative at MCI-Norfolk aims to transform reentry outcomes and higher education in prison.

JEAN TROUNSTINE October 12, 2026

Question 2 Could Give Public Defenders The Right To Unionize

(Special to BINJ.News) – Massachusetts residents will vote next month on whether employees at the Committee for Public Counsel Services—the state agency for public defenders and the social workers who support them—can collectively bargain. Public defenders, who provide free legal representation to criminal defendants who cannot afford an attorney, have

DIVINA CORDEIRO October 9, 2026

IndyMass: October 2, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #69. ARTS Film Review: “NAZA” — A Documentary Against Willful Blindness The Arts Fuse (Somerville) A helpful look at the big documentary of the moment. An Israeli film that makes

JASON PRAMAS October 2, 2026

Can Question 7’s Zoning Reform Ease The Mass Housing Crisis?

“Allowing homes on smaller lots reduces the cost of homes for buyers and makes it so that developers don’t have to build giant McMansions just to justify the cost of assembling so much land.”

DYLAN VRINS October 1, 2026

IndyMass: September 18, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #68. ARTS With ‘Rhinoceros,’ Diane Paulus turns the page to a new chapter at the American Repertory Theater Cambridge Somerville Independent Article by BINJ alum Shira Laucharoen! DOMESTIC VIOLENCE A

JASON PRAMAS September 18, 2026

Judge Rejects Challenge To Northampton’s Israel-Divestment Resolution

Northampton, Mass. (Special to BINJ.News) – In the afternoon of Wednesday, Aug. 26, about 75 keffiyah-clad and banner-bearing people gathered at a rally outside the Hampshire County Superior Court, their chatter interrupted periodically by the enthusiastic honks of supportive motorists. The crowd had gathered there to support a resolution Northampton’s

COLIN WEINSTEIN September 11, 2026

A Masterclass In Stereotyping

As an aging townie, a handful of figures have been fixtures in Boston journalism since I was a teenager. Howie Carr, who is a good deal older than me, is one of them. An early example of the “angry white guy” type of conservative commentator, he’s unusual among adepts of

JASON PRAMAS September 11, 2026

Editor’s Note: A Democratic Socialist Faction at the State House?

One development seems particularly noteworthy from this week’s primaries: There looks to be an emerging democratic socialist faction at the State House based in Cambridge and Somerville. Joining longtime Rep. Mike Connolly of Cambridge (who just beat a primary challenger to keep his seat) and Rep. Erika Uyterhoeven of Somerville

JASON PRAMAS September 4, 2026

IndyMass: September 4, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #67. ELECTIONS Western Massachusetts incumbents sweep primary elections The Shoestring (Western Mass.) Interesting take on an otherwise predictable group of races. The Worcester Sucks Guide To This Freaky Little Primary|

JASON PRAMAS September 4, 2026