New Documents Reveal Extent, Cost Of BPD’s Secret Surveillance Strategy After more than 100 white supremacists gathered in Boston and marched through the city over Independence Day weekend, city and law enforcement officials said they “did not have intelligence” that the nationally-known Patriot Front group was coming to the Hub—despite paying a government contractor with […]
HACKS, FACTS & CONTRACTS
As trains broke down, the MBTA’s million-dollar marketing campaign kept running In 2019, a politically-connected state contractor laid out a series of messages and ideas for its Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority clients in what was dubbed their “MBTA Brand Creative Presentation.” Large concepts like “Performance Improvement” and “Fiscal Discipline” were broken down by objectives, situations, […]
HIGH DRAMA
Unruly, argumentative Governor’s Council inflames Parole Board Hearings There was high drama on display again at a Massachusetts Governor’s Council meeting at the State House last week. During two nomination hearings on June 15, councilors argued with each other, used their podiums to air their pet peeves, and insulted and cut off witnesses. Such antics […]
DREAM FELLOWSHIP DEFERRED
Photo via US Department of Homeland Security / Mani Albrecht Diabetes researcher claims she was unlawfully denied entry to US A Canadian scholar hired for a prestigious diabetes research fellowship at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center says she was wrongfully denied entry to the US and discriminated against because she was […]
RECOGNITION FOR RELIGION REPORTING
The kind of deep read that gets people and communities talking while winning awards in the process Congratulations to Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada and Claire Sadar on their receiving an honorable mention in the Associated Church Press Best of the Church Press Awards for the first two installments of their Sacred Writes series on “Greater Boston’s Church […]
