“I don’t want to be tough or anything near tough—I understand what tough brings.”
LESS BUILDING, MORATORIUM
Hundreds of Roxbury residents speak out against displacement at landmark hearing
ROOKIE YEAR
The BASE location on the edge of Roxbury, a neighborhood that is approximately 60 percent black and 23 percent Latino, is helping to bridge the gap and bring baseball to communities that have been excluded from the sport. But that’s not all they do.
BEHIND THE CURVE
Hubway’s low-income program goes regional, but infrastructure’s still inadequate As the bike-sharing industry becomes a multibillion-dollar race across the country, cycling options for Bostonians are getting more affordable and more competitive. In Boston, Cambridge, Brookline, and Somerville, Hubway reigns due to exclusive contracts with those cities. The publicly owned and privately operated service, which was […]
RETRO POP: LOOKING BACK ON TWO YEARS OF BINJ POP-UP NEWSROOMS
How our nonprofit newsroom starts its listening by popping up where people live and play When summarizing my first two years of running a nonprofit journalism shop in Boston, I often use the spot-on aphorism that necessity is the mother of invention. That’s the best way to explain how, before we had real funding but […]