Massachusetts ecologists build a winter ‘hotel’ for snakes
The success of the rocky structure will be measured once temperatures drop.

Growing up on Choctaw land, and not being able to go back, inspired this chamber music album
Charles Shadle’s new album Choctaw Places pays tribute to the Choctaw Nation’s reservation within Oklahoma.
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Fernandes Anderson's historic political rise ends with guilty plea and resignation
Fernandes Anderson made history as the first Muslim and African-immigrant to be elected to the Boston City Council. -
Location data protections should be ‘number one’ issue for Beacon Hill, key senator says
State lawmakers are weighing several ways to make consumers’ personal data more secure, including proposals to ban the sale of location information. -
$30 million in medical debt owed by Eastern Mass. residents to be eliminated
A national nonprofit says it has acquired medical debt owed by some 17,000 people, making it the "largest single abolishment" of such debt in Massachusetts. -
Tariff chaos sends Massachusetts business scrambling
“Every industry in Massachusetts is going to be affected,” one local trade lawyer said. -
Wu unveils $4.8 billion Boston budget proposal amid federal uncertainty
The mayor said the spending plan eliminates the equivalent of nearly 500 city jobs.
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Scratch & Win
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College Uncovered
GBH News in collaboration with The Hechinger Report, goes behind the scenes to show you how higher education really works. -
What Is Owed?
Boston has begun to wrestle with the notion of paying reparations to Black people to make up for 400 years of enslavement and economic exclusion. -
The Big Dig
This Peabody Award–winning podcast dives into the cynicism that hangs over the topic of American infrastructure. No project embodies that cynicism quite like ‘The Big Dig.’

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