Somerville Wire

The Somerville Wire—an initiative of the Somerville News Garden project of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism—is a web-based news service covering Somerville, Massachusetts. Its content is produced by professional journalists, area residents trained as journalists at SNG’s Neighborhood Media School, and Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and DigBoston interns. All articles published on the Wire are available for republishing by other community news outlets for free—and by larger commercial news outlets for a fee. Interested news outlets can contact us at somervillewire@binjonline.org

The public at large has free access to all Wire articles here at somervillewire.news.

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June 21, 2017

GETTING TO BIKE

  Urban multimodal network needed to make bicycles a viable alternative in the ’burbs June 21, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS ...
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June 20, 2017

VICIOUS CYCLE (DATA EDITION)

Boston’s ugliest intersections for cyclists If you’ve visited the streets of Boston for all of five minutes, you know that each commute ...
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June 14, 2017

CONDEMBTA

A visual essay on public transportation infrastructure and priorities in Greater Boston It’s often noted that the trains which pump through ...
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June 7, 2017

INTERSECTIONAL POLITICS (A CRASH-NOT-ACCIDENT REPORT)

When it comes to bike safety and infrastructure in Greater Boston, there’s a dangerous gap between the promises that cities ...
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April 26, 2017

EIGHT ISN’T ENOUGH

A Somerville Housing Needs Assessment report notes that the majority of units at risk of losing their affordability are located ...
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March 8, 2017

THE OUTSIDERS

Kicked out of home and misunderstood by social service providers, homeless LGBTQ youth often have nowhere to turn Author’s Note: ...
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December 12, 2016

SNUBWAY

This may help explain why you’ve had so much trouble renting and returning public bikes in Boston By most measures, the Hubway ...
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May 25, 2016

STATE OF THE BOSTON COMEDY UNION

Seven comics. Two hours. One historic summit on the state of stand-up comedy in the Hub. Mr. Mayor, Mr. Governor, ...
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September 23, 2015

TURF WAR

The saga of gentrification in Somerville is playing out in the city’s youth sports leagues Longtime volunteer Bob Schofield, well known ...
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