A rare win on the public records front in Mass
BROKEN RECORDS: MONKEY WRENCHING
BROKEN RECORDS: COLD CASE, COLDER SHOULDER
Why won’t the Worcester DA release a 66-year-old murder file?
LAB RATS AND REPARATIONS
Prosecutors are dismissing nearly 24,000 tainted drug convictions, but do their actions go far enough?
REEFER MMA-DNESS
How Mass politicians say ‘local control’ when they mean ‘prohibition’
PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION
The animal rights group PETA is set to argue an important case that will determine the limits of the so-called public safety exemption to the public records law
BROKEN RECORDS: HOW TO EXPOSE BAD GOVERNMENT IN 2017
For the first time in decades, the Commonwealth has a new public records law. Here’s what you need to know…
BROKEN RECORDS: KAFKACHUSETTS
Mass AG shows just how useless public info laws are, but change is possible
LOCAL PROHIBITION IS STILL PROHIBITION
Group representing Mass municipalities wants local politicians to have the power to ban pot shops
THREAT LEVEL: HYPOTHETICAL
It was a standard public information request … until the state set up a maze to block one intrepid reporter’s access to records
THE COMEBACK KITTY: NEW ENGLANDERS BRING CLINTON CAT BACK FROM THE DEAD
The year is 1993: Bill Clinton is president, his family has a cat named Socks—and for some weird reason, a company called Kaneko intends to publish a Super Nintendo game about the aforementioned feline saving the world from nuclear devastation.
