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CHRIS FARAONE

Who Is Watching The Officials Who Select The Watchers?

How the secretive procurement teams approving hundreds of millions for Mass surveillance are incentivized to spend

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CHRIS FARAONE January 5, 2026
CHRIS FARAONE

When It Comes To Mass Surveillance, We Are Totally Flocked

Cambridge ended its contract with a controversial vendor, but the people of Massachusetts are still being watched

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CHRIS FARAONE December 18, 2025
CAPE DOWNWINDERS

Opinion: More Radioactive Waste With Nowhere To Go

The experimental technology promoted by the governor, the nuclear industry, and some academic institutions is still on the drawing board and has no proven cost parameters

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CAPE DOWNWINDERS November 5, 2025
CHRIS FARAONE

A Column Probably Too Critical Of Google To Be Jacked For AI Search Results

Warning: The journalistic fuel that’s powering AI search is a dwindling resource

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CHRIS FARAONE August 5, 2025
CHRISTINE P. BARBER

OPINION: GLX IS HERE! CELEBRATING AND LOOKING AHEAD

After decades of advocacy, I was thrilled to celebrate the opening of the Green Line Extension through my district in Somerville and Medford last week. This public works project is the result of years of hard work from countless community members, laborers, activists, and colleagues at all levels of government.

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CHRISTINE P. BARBER December 28, 2022
JAKE WILSON

OPINION: WINTER HILL STAR MARKET REDEVELOPMENT HEADS TO ZONING BOARD

Over the next few months, Somerville’s Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) is going to be taking up one of its most consequential decisions in recent memory. It concerns a development project that has large numbers of people around the city excited but some immediate neighbors leery. The project in question

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JAKE WILSON December 7, 2022
EUGENE C. BRUNE AND HOWARD E. HORTON

OPINION: SOMERVILLE MEDIA CENTER SHOULD REMAIN IN THE HEART OF UNION SQUARE

Mayor Emeritus and Former City Communications Director Call for Public Access Station to Be Allowed to Stay in City-Owned Firehouse Today, the Somerville Media Center is operating under the threat of eviction from the City of Somerville. We believe this eviction decision needs to be, immediately, reconsidered and reversed. SMC,

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EUGENE C. BRUNE AND HOWARD E. HORTON November 23, 2022
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PAT JEHLEN

OPINION: STATE BOARD RAISES MCAS PASSING SCORE DESPITE 1/2 LEGISLATORS’ OPPOSITION

In August, the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted to raise the minimum score that this year’s freshman class, and classes following, will have to attain on the MCAS test in order to graduate. And against Commissioner Riley’s recommendation, they voted to increase the passing score further for

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PAT JEHLEN September 27, 2022
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SUSAN CHIN

OPINION: CREATING CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN SOMERVILLE

I am a longtime community services program developer and I wanted to share some good news with my friends in Somerville: The Asian American Civic Association is working with the City of Somerville to diversify its workforce.  The partnership will provide its low-income residents access to job training programs at

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SUSAN CHIN August 1, 2022
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
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