The Dig - Greater Boston's Alternative News Source
As gas prices and heating costs skyrocket across Massachusetts, fossil fuel producers and providers are spending hundreds of thousands to promote their political agendas to state officials and lawmakers.
The state’s five for-profit utilities, which function as regulated ...
“Late adolescents are particularly likely to be sentenced based on systemic racism and implicit biases in policing, prosecution, and sentencing.”
Company hired to run Transit Police dispatch service under-delivered, charged extra, and kept inadequate records, according to inspector general's report
Shortcomings in the state’s greenhouse gas inventory pose issues for energy planning
“Stepping into this house made me feel better … She has a way of transforming pain into passion.”
“We’ve got a system in place where it’s just, grab this money from mostly poor people, but don’t have mechanisms in place to really account for what’s taken.”
“Through the whole thing, I found that people are very interested in the unknown. They’re very interested in finding things they’re not 100% certain of.”
“Everything that I came across for 40 years has been a battle.”
“It’s troubling that nobody deigned to mention this was coming.”
How fliers posted around Boston lure pedestrians into a guerrilla theater narrative of infidelity, huge frogs, and emotional vulnerability
