Boston aims to beef up parking enforcement. We took a deep dive into the request for proposal to forecast their highly profitable plans. Boston officials are looking to upgrade the city’s massive parking enforcement management system, which brings in $60 million a year through more than a million parking tickets and thousands of boots and […]
INVESTIGATING THE INTERSTATE: IN THE SHADOW OF THE HIGHWAY
How immigrants and working-class people have been impacted by I-93, across the years 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 fourth in a series about how roadways like I-93 and others in East Somerville have […]
UNCLAIMED BIKES COULD BE REDISTRIBUTED TO SUPPORT PUBLIC GOOD
What happens to abandoned bicycles? The City Council is working to see if they can be repurposed
INVESTIGATING THE INTERSTATE: ARE MASSDOT’S SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS ENOUGH?
This past June, MassDOT announced that it would address safety concerns connected to East Somerville’s highways
SOMERVILLE WIRE GETS KOZIK ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE REPORTING GRANT
BINJ will be publishing a six-part series on public health issues affecting East Somerville.
