For the first time in the city’s history, Boston’s living wage ordinance might finally get applied to low-paid workers sorting the city’s recycling ...
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NONPROFIT MODEL NOT A PANACEA FOR AMERICAN NEWS MEDIA
THE MUM FUND: TOUGH QUESTIONS FOLLOWING AN AUDIT OF A CHARITY MEANT TO HELP BOSTONIANS IN NEED
“Insufficient and ineffective utilization of the fund may risk the Charitable Trust not meeting its mission and objectives to assist City of Boston residents in need."
SOMERVILLE SUMMIT: PART I
"We want to connect and align with other neighborhood or issue groups doing similar things … and it’s hard to know who and where this is."
EVEN WITH YAWKEY BANISHED, THERE’S WORK TO DO IN RIDDING BOSTON SPORTS OF RACISM
If Boston sports enthusiasts are angry that the city continues to be tarnished by a bad reputation for bigoted fans, perhaps their anger’s misdirected.
STOP THE ELECTRIC SCOOTER SCAM
IT’S TIME TO BRING BACK RENT CONTROL IN MASSACHUSETTS
PROPOSED STATE JOURNALISM COMMISSION NEEDS BROADER MEMBERSHIP
CT HIGH COURT RULING OPENS UP MASS GUN SELLER TO SANDY HOOK LAWSUIT
It could be years before the Newtown case works its way up through the Supreme Court of the United States, where it is inevitably headed. In the meantime, DigBoston and BINJ will continue to report on the firearm economy in Mass and to identify the politicians, including Baker, who speak out against harm while accepting money from gun dealers and distributors.
SOMERVILLE LICENSING COMMISSION WAIVES APPLICATION FEES FOR CANNABIS DISPENSARIES
As the licensing approval process in some towns and cities has been compared to both ransom and extortion, this week the Somerville Licensing Commission, in what appears to be a statewide first, passed a measure to sidestep at least some of the insanity that hopeful legal weed growers and sellers face in Mass.