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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
ALEXA MADDI

Demand For Low-Income Fuel Assistance Continues To Skyrocket

BOSTON – It’s effortless for Everett resident Luke Charles Farrell to recall the exact day his basketball career at the University of Alabama came to a halt. On Dec. 15, 1996, Farrell lost vision in his left eye when a fellow athlete elbowed Farrell’s face while attempting a slam dunk.

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ALEXA MADDI December 27, 2025
JASON PRAMAS

IndyMass: December 19, 2025

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! CULTURE ‘People Just Don’t Know Filipinos’ Sampan (Boston) Love seeing former BINJ interns published in other area news outlets (even when, in this case, the intern wrote for the outlet in question

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JASON PRAMAS December 19, 2025
MATTEA ORTIZ

Mass Indie Comic Expo Keeps Comics Trans, Black, and Educated

BOSTON – The Boston Comic Arts Foundation hosted its 16th Massachusetts Independent Comic Expo on Dec. 6 and 7 at Boston University featuring over 200 artists and writers, as well as several special guests. Jules Zuckerberg, an illustrator, cartoonist and zinemaker, tabled at MICE for the first time after spending

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MATTEA ORTIZ December 18, 2025
CELINE HIJAZI

Josh Safdie Defends Film School, Sort Of

BOSTON – “Nobody wants your films to exist,” Boston University alumnus Josh Safdie told an auditorium filled with BU film students Friday afternoon. Ahead of the Coolidge Corner premiere of his new film “Marty Supreme,” Safdie returned to the BU campus for a conversation moderated by the Chair of the

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CELINE HIJAZI December 18, 2025
CHELSEA PLUNKETT

‘The Earth Is Really Hurting, And We Can Do Something About It.’

BOSTON – The specter of silent, red-robed figures walking around Long Wharf, faces a ghostly white, stunned Gwendolen Noyes, her hands outstretched in agony.  “I was thunderstruck … they just hit me, and I couldn’t figure out what was going on,” said Noyes, a housing engineer who lives in Cambridge. 

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CHELSEA PLUNKETT December 18, 2025
JASON PRAMAS

IndyMass: December 5, 2025

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! EDUCATION Governor releases draft graduation requirements The Flipside (Boston) Parts of the proposal look innovative, but is there a stealth MCAS-like component? (Could be.) From “It’s kind of falling apart” to “who

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JASON PRAMAS December 5, 2025
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