The Dig - Greater Boston's Alternative News Source
When Henry David Thoreau wrote “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion,” he was basically saying (depending on how deep you read into it) that the life of a city dweller, with all one’s material possessions mandated by the opulence a own ...
“They’re asserting a general police power to capture anybody’s image and process it for law enforcement purposes just in case they later turn out to be guilty of something. That’s not OK.”
There’s no way a relatively privileged middle-class reporter could actually know what life is like on Long Island without staying there. And so in June, that’s exactly what I did.
Boston Calling attendees didn’t know they were all unwitting test subjects for a sophisticated new event monitoring platform. We’re not talking about old school black and white surveillance cameras. More like technology that analyzes every passerby for height, clothing, and skin color.
With Boston on the short list for the 2024 Summer Games, we tour Atlanta's broken Olympic promises
For 10 months between 2012 and 2013, Chris Faraone, Tom Nash, and Adam Vaccaro dug into the unseemly political underbelly of the City of Somerville, where the power and privilege of an elite few has dominated and perverted municipal progress for decades.
