In this special throwback, reporter Jon Riley looks back at why the government may have wanted Bulger dead more than anyone else
A STORY MAP FOR YOUR NEWS ORG
With help from a team at Tufts University’s JumboCode, we built a story map for readers to find headlines geographically.
THE TRACK LEAST TRAVELED
Daybreak at a semihistoric MBTA station you have never heard of and will probably never use It’s an everyday struggle if you head inbound toward Boston from the least-used MBTA train station. There’s only one commuter rail that heads that way on weekdays, and it leaves at 6:58 in Continue Reading
THE BINJ 2018 YEAR-IN-REVIEW
For the first time ever, we did our year-end recap as a video. We hope that you enjoy it, share it, and consider BINJ in your end-of-year giving.
FAIR HOUSING WHACKED: TUFTS STUDENTS FIGHT ADMIN PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH “CLASSIST” DORM SYSTEM
More than 200 Tufts University students, faculty, and allies from surrounding communities held a march and demonstration last week to protest a new campus housing policy, according to the Boston Herald. Over the summer, the Tufts administration announced that its annual lottery system for on-campus housing during each academic Continue Reading
THE MOVEMENT
I went to several SLAMS while writing this article, each time trying to find the right words to describe an experience that is deliberately without words. I walked, ran, spun furiously, held poses, pretended to be a mouse as I scrambled on the floor.
FAIR HOUSING?
For developers in Boston, it may pay off to blow off inclusionary building requirements
BAILEMOS: BODIES WITHOUT BORDERS
The Dance Complex, like other havens for the arts but on a regionally incomparable scale, supports immigrant populations of all kinds and resists discrimination and negative cultural stereotypes.
GROSS POINTS BLANK: BOSTON’S TOP COP SHOULD THINK TWICE BEFORE BASHING THE ACLU
BPD Commissioner William Gross has had a bad few days. Last week, ACLU Massachusetts sued the city of Boston for using “a system—nicknamed the ‘gang packet’—which awards points for choice of clothes and social media selfies, and [is] used to designate ‘gang affiliation’ without any accompanying allegations of criminal Continue Reading
FIRE SALE PT. 1 1/2
More about how police solicitation of guns and other combat gear is done solely by departments that weigh options and decide on agreements, without any scrutiny from other agencies.