What Mass lawmakers can learn about parole from the battle to end death by incarceration across the country. “To see the transformation of those who have caused harm is important for those who have been harmed.”
CHANGING PERCEPTION, CHANGING THE LAW
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IN SEARCH OF SOLUTIONS FOR A BROKEN PAROLE SYSTEM
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In the process of editing this week’s cover feature by Jean Trounstine, a collaboration with the ...
MARCHING SEASON: JOIN THE RALLY FOR RENT CONTROL
Mass State House, Oct 29, noon-1:30 pm
Twenty-five years after the real estate industry destroyed rent control in Massachusetts, ...
RECYCLING FOLLOW-UP: THE ROAD TO ZERO
Despite a relative win for recycling workers, living wage advocates pledge to keep on fighting
THE BLEACHING OF STONEWALL
On this anniversary of the riots, let’s get closer to the truth of what happened in NYC
WILL BOSTON SET A NEW REGIONAL PRECEDENT AND FINALLY PAY RECYCLING WORKERS A LIVING WAGE?
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 ...
NO MORE HITTING PEOPLE ON THE TRAIN PLEASE
It’s a striking visual, somehow awful and hilarious at once, the latter mainly because the behavior of the perpetrator is so damn outrageous.
HUMBLE PI: HOMEBOY SANDMAN, EDAN, AND THE GENESIS OF HIP-HOP’S MOST DYNAMIC ALL-STAR DYAD
"I’m less enthusiastic about the cyber collab—I don’t want to live my life that way. So just the fact that he was down to make the trek repeatedly and be here, and even be here in those instances when I’m looking through records, he was patiently just around."
VOICE OVER: DIG STRONG AND MOURN ON
Here at the Dig, along with our partners from the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, we are busy working on multiple investigations—you know, the kind that critics who don’t know the first thing about independent media in 2018 keep alleging that papers like ours have stopped producing.
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: LIVING ON SCRAPS
Boston is aiming to achieve “zero waste,” which some say can create more living-wage jobs. Is part of this lofty goal rooted in the region’s dirtiest hypocrisy?
