A roundup of recent articles from the Massachusetts independent press
Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State!
ARTS
Carving Out a Place for the Common Person
Sampan
A nice piece about Boston Chinatown-based sculptor and painter Wen-ti Tsen.
Three Lexington performing arts teachers named quarterfinalists for the GRAMMY Music Educator Awards
Lexington Observer
More positive arts news.
CIVIL LIBERTIES
Petrova released on bail from federal detention, walks out of courthouse; indictment still possible
Cambridge Day
One step forward for the Harvard researcher …
Doxing, death threats, deportation: How the far right stifled campus activism and sent ICE after a local student
The Shoestring (Western Mass.)
If you can’t win the battle for hearts and minds, just try to get your opponents deported!
EDUCATION
L-S Committee Gets Input on Cell Phones
Sudbury Weekly
Will our tech overlords allow schools to keep children away from their phones during school for much longer? I wonder …
Ipswich school committee outlaws student bake sales
The Local News (Ipswich)
OK, phones are one thing, but this attack on student bake sales shall not stand!
ENVIRONMENT
Solar Array Slashes Mill Pond’s Electric Bill
Burlington Buzz
See? This is one good example of why we need more genuine clean energy alternatives deployed throughout this messed-up society of ours.
POLICE
Teens push for cuts to police budget
The Flipside
Boston kids pushing against a political tide that is still very much moving in the opposite direction.
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