DIG 22.32 – 8/13/20As lawmakers consider free phone calls, expensive video calls come to Mass prisons
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“IT’S JUST NOT WORKING”: FOR SOME SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS, IN-PERSON IS ESSENTIAL
“I feel like as parents we are not being heard enough when it comes to our special needs kids.”
BETRAYAL: FRUSTRATED, SOME INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS DISTANCE FROM THE US
"We’re being used as political tools. That’s the most heartbreaking part of everything."
GRAND IRONY OPERA: POLICE REFORM, FROM CITY HALL TO TRUMP MAJAL
They “don’t trust either Trump or Biden with these powers, and believe they should stay lapsed whoever is in office."
THE HOPSCOTCH PLAN: BPS EDUCATORS BRACE FOR CHALLENGING SCHOOL YEAR
"The current timeline does not make us feel confident that everything that needs to be in place will be in place, for in-person learning."
CALL YOUR MA STATE SENATOR TODAY TO HELP SAVE LOCAL NEWS!
[W]e’re asking all journalists, journalism educators, journalism students, media reform activists, and DigBoston readers who agree that the state journalism commission should be created to call your Mass state senator today and ask him/her to tell Sens. Eric Lesser (D - Longmeadow), Michael Rodrigues (D - Somerset), and Patrick O'Connor (D - Weymouth), who are on the conference committee, to keep the journalism commission in the final economic development bill.
GOWN FOR THE CAUSE: A MAJOR COMMUNITY-BASED PPE FACILITY BLOSSOMS IN ALLSTON
There are few outfits fit for the task, and Gowntown in Lower Allston is one of them.
NOTES FROM THE PANDEMIC: 7.31.20 DIGBOSTON WEEKLY UPDATE
Anti-Asian sentiment continues to hurt businesses, residents in Boston
HEADLESS BOSTON: WHAT IS THE FATE OF COLUMBUS PARK IN THE NORTH END?
“The park should be a place where everyone feels welcome, not a place where Indigenous people are made to feel uncomfortable, erased and demeaned.”
PHOTOS & RECAP: BOSTON SCHOOL NURSES PROTEST, WANT REOPENING CONCERNS HEARD
"Questions about screening, adequate facilities, safe practices, staffing levels, PPE, health and safety practices ... have prompted them to take this action."
