Cambridge Day • February 11th, 2026

The rental market in Cambridge is easing, but will it make a difference? - Cambridge Day

While the Cambridge rental market seemed to cool late last year, the city’s affordable housing advocates continue to say more needs to be done to make housing less expensive.

Cambridge Day • February 2nd, 2026

On tap for Black History Month: concerts, cooking & a history cafe - Cambridge Day

Cambridge residents have many ways to participate in Black History Month this year, as some local organizations invite the public to join them in recognizing the contributions and experiences of Black Americans in Cambridge and across the country.

Cambridge Day • January 9th, 2026

The Cambridge rental market is cooling — for now

Apartment hunters in Cambridge are seeing slight relief from the expensive housing market this winter.

Cambridge Day • August 5th, 2025

City approves BioMed lab project with alterations to how nonprofits will be apportioned its benefits

City councillors voted 8-1 on Monday to approve an East Cambridge lab project and, with it, funding for nonprofits citywide.

Chinanu Okoli

Cambridge Day • August 4th, 2025

East Cambridge team agrees to $5M compromise in BioMed construction community benefits deal

The East Cambridge Planning Team, which has led negotiations with life sciences developer BioMed Realty for seven months, has agreed to amend an unprecedented upzoning payout proposal that would’ve given $20 million in mitigation funds to East End House.

Chinanu Okoli News • July 15th, 2025

Advocates push legislation to permanently stop electric shock on disabled people

The Judge Rotenberg Center is the only U.S. school that uses the aversive therapy to change people's behavior. A reproposed bill this legislative session could change that.

Chinanu Okoli News • June 18th, 2025

'All of us as individuals have power’: how one Massachusetts school is educating its students on genocide

Several years after the state's Genocide Education Act was signed into law, one local teacher hopes her lessons on genocides and conflicts will empower her students.

POLITICO • June 12th, 2025

DOT’s inspector general lost 11 percent of its workforce to ‘Fork’ offers

The DOT’s inspector general’s office has shed 42 employees since DOT began asking people to consider
participating in its “deferred resignation” program — about 11 percent of the IG’s workforce.

Greenfield Recorder • May 23rd, 2025

Farmers eye ‘forever chemical’ legislation

Some local farmers hope bills to mitigate PFAS contamination in Massachusetts could safeguard their work and protect their lives.

WBUR • May 6th, 2025

Advocates in Brookline push to save school district’s Office of Educational Equity

Advocates have raised over $188,000 in an attempt to save Brookline's Office of Educational Equity for next school year. But whether money will be taken in by the  town's school committee is still up in the air.

WBUR • May 6th, 2025

What students, teachers and parents think about banning phones in Mass. schools

A legislative committee is reviewing several proposals to limit or ban personal phone usage in schools, including the so-called STUDY bill, backed by AG Andrea Campbell earlier this year. We asked local students, parents and teachers about their thoughts on student access to phones in schools.

Greenfield Recorder • April 27th, 2025

New provision allowing beer sales at farmers markets sees mixed reactions

Local brewers and farmers market owners range from enthusiastic to disappointed to indifferent to the state’s new provision allowing brewers to sell beer and other craft beverages at farmers markets, fairs and other agricultural events.

Boston Business Journal • April 1st, 2025

Biotech leaders champion life sciences apprenticeships

Local biotechnology leaders want employers, training providers, and industry hopefuls to take advantage of the opportunities available in life sciences apprenticeships.

WBUR • March 20th, 2025

Boston School Committee votes to close Dever Elementary, despite pressure from advocates

District officials identified four schools to close by the end of next school year due to underutilization, but advocates contend the decision-making process excluded their voices.

WBUR • February 26th, 2025

Quincy school committee votes against making Lunar New Year a school holiday

Many Quincy parents who testified at the recent school committee meeting voiced hope the holiday's recognition would strengthen Asian American representation in the city.

Greenfield Recorder • February 23rd, 2025

State’s new ‘Farm-Pass’ program hopes to ease farm succession planning

Applications are rolling in for the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources’ new Farm Transfer Planning Assistance initiative that connects aging farmers and their successors with experienced planners to set retirement goals and figure out how management and assets will be transferred.

Chinanu Okoli

WBUR • February 11th, 2025

State education leaders promote free college and influx of state aid to Mass. high schoolers

Massachusetts' education officials are meeting with high schoolers at several schools over the next month to help demystify the financial aid process as they prepare to start their college applications.

Cambridge Day • February 7th, 2025

'I know you don’t want me': Art gallery owner struggles as Somerville advances Armory plan

Parama Chattopadhyay has bolstered the arts scene in the Boston area for two decades. It’s challenged her more in recent years as owner of the Out of the Blue gallery at the now Somerville-owned Armory building.

The Daily Free Press • February 7th, 2025

‘It starts by listening’: Accessibility has a long way to go at BU

Walking up the stairs is difficult for Boston University junior Caine Murcia. With a disability that makes half of their body go numb, they have to use an elevator to access other floors.
When the sole elevator in the College of General Studies was broken for a month, Murcia struggled to go up and down the stairs.
“I’m leaning against the wall, trying not to fall and lose my balance,” they said.
Murcia added inaccessibility in classroom buildings impedes their ability to learn.
“It’s really hard...

GBH News • April 11th, 2024

Gen Z voters disappointed in Biden reconsider their options for 2024

Young voters feeling disappointed in the 2024 presidential candidates are left with few alternative options, though voting third party isn’t out of the question for 24-year-old independent Mia Swenson. In the latest edition of Politics IRL, Swenson joined 20-year-old Democrat Abigail Meyers to talk about the bleak choices for 2024, and why Meyers is still clinging to her vote for Joe Biden.

GBH News • April 2nd, 2024

Abortion is what's driving these Gen Z voters to the polls in 2024

Audrey Grant and Timothy Smyth, two young voters, met up at a bar in Boston recently to talk about what issues will motivate them to vote in the 2024 elections. Among their top concerns - the changes made to abortion laws in the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision.

GBH News • April 2nd, 2024

Ahead of NH primaries, two Republican college students debate the better candidate

Ky Urban and Nathan Duval are registered Republicans studying at Southern New Hampshire University. They both voted for Donald Trump in the 2020 general election, but only one of them plans to do so again in 2024. Ahead of the New Hampshire primary, they debated Trump's candidacy.

Cambridge Day • March 23rd, 2024

Lesley expands its Threshold support program, offering lifelong support for the neurodivergent

Threshold is the rare program teaching neurodiverse young adults the skills needed to enter the workforce, have social lives and operate independently. Now, upon celebrating its 40th anniversary, Lesley is rolling out Threshold Lifelong Support.

GBH News • March 7th, 2024

Diversity advocates concerned new federal ruling will affect minority-focused business efforts

A federal judge's ruling in Texas that an agency created to help minority-owned businesses must extend its services to every race has New England business equity advocates concerned about the decision’s potential to impede their work.