An increased police presence does not necessarily make people feel safer (Somerville Wire) – The City of Somerville, together with the Capital Projects Division of its Department of Infrastructure and Assets Management that oversees construction of all City-owned buildings, is advancing a Public Safety Building project, an idea that has been in discussion for a […]
INVESTIGATING THE INTERSTATE: TO TEAR DOWN A HIGHWAY
Image by Utile Design Pols and advocates discuss what it could mean to take down the McGrath overpass The Somerville Wire recently received a Kozik Environmental Justice Reporting Grant, through the National Press Foundation and the National Press Club Journalism Institute. This article is the last in a series about how roadways like McGrath Highway […]
VIDEO: SOMERVILLE’S ‘CORRIDOR OF DEATH’
Somerville Live Wire — Episode 4 Episode 4 discusses the Somerville “Corridor of Death”—McGrath Highway between Broadway and Route 38/Mystic Ave.—and how community advocates are fighting to make it safer for pedestrians and bikers. Guests: Wig Zamore of Somerville Transportation Equity Partnership and Community Assessment of Freeway Exposures and Health and Arah Schuur of Somerville […]
VIDEO: HOW ARTISTS IN SOMERVILLE HAVE SURVIVED THE FIRST PANDEMIC YEAR
Somerville Live Wire — Episode 3
SOMERVILLE WIRE: May 11, 2021 WEEKLY ROUNDUP
A project is disrupted at a SomerNova space, new reopening steps are revealed, and the Somerville Arts Council calls for Artbeat submissions