From churches to banks, urban school districts find creative ways to update facilities
Urban school districts receive less funding toward school facilities than their suburban counterparts, according to a new MassInc. report. Because of this, many get creative to get things done.
Voting reforms, rent control among ballot initiatives poised to move on to Mass. Legislature
Each one seems to have received or be on track to receive nearly 75,000 signatures.
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Lowell Spinners to make return with Futures League in 2026
Spinners last played in 2019, team was dropped as Red Sox affiliate in 2020 -
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Harvard custodial workers go on 2-day strike over pay
Hundreds of workers walked off the job Monday after frustrations over wage increases. -
As SNAP benefits stalled, a Massachusetts teen stepped up with a digital lifeline: MySnapMap
17-year-old Sami Juma created an online tool to help families locate local food assistance. Even with the shutdown ending, he says the need isn't going away. -
Mass. party heads spar on ethics of public tips to ICE
Steve Kerrigan and Amy Carnevale had starkly different takes on BU junior Zac Segal’s purported behavior and the response it's elicited.
GBH News podcasts
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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 Podcast
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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