The world’s first modern rocket launched from a cabbage farm in Massachusetts 100 years ago
Robert Goddard is known as the father of modern rocketry, but at the time, many people mocked his ideas around space exploration.
How UMass Amherst is helping stem the shortage of air traffic controllers
Researchers are working to inspire the next generation of recruits — and hope to eventually play a role in training them, too.
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Public defenders bring fight for unionization to Beacon Hill
Public defenders and CPCS staff take their fight to the legislature, hoping to seek the same bargaining rights as other state employees. -
Mass. high court stays out of bar advocate funding dispute
The SJC cites separation of powers, says it would be 'inappropriate' for judges to intervene in setting attorney pay rates. -
Wicked Strange: The hermit of the White Mountains
English Jack sold postcards and copies of his autobiography to visitors. -
New festival takes classical music off the stage and into the mud
Maine’s first Mudfest fosters community and connection through choir singing, musical chairs and a dance party -
What do laid-off workers, immigrants and Gateway Cities have in common? Money worries.
The latest local news headlines on Under The Radar include unemployment woes, a new public-private partnership and Gateway Cities confusion.
GBH News podcasts
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Catching The Codfather
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. -
College Uncovered
GBH News in collaboration with The Hechinger Report, goes behind the scenes to show you how higher education really works. -
Scratch & Win
Never in American history has it been so easy to gamble legally. -
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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