Don't miaa this important article from 48hills.org refuting YIMBY dogma om the need for indiscrimate housing demand. Dramatic data suggests gentrification and income inequality are far more important ...

In a troubling escalation of state repression, Tufts University Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by plainclothes ICE agents on March 25, 2025, in Somerville, Massachusetts. Ozturk, a Turkish ...

On March 25, 2025, Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was brutally assaulted by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank village of Susya, in the Masafer Yatta region. Ballal, known ...

Afther two months of Trump 2.0, the 47 th President has fallen into a predictable pattern. Each day there’s a dominant news item. This morning it was Ukraine peace talks. Yesterday it was eliminating ...

It’s hard to know what District 2 Councilmember Taplin had in mind for the Council Facilities, Infrastructure, Transportation, Environment and Sustainability Committee (FITES) for the 2 pm meeting on ...

The social atmosphere at the old building was tolerant. Expectations weren't too high. But it was a high stress environment, and this impacted me, whether I liked it or not. I lived there for about a ...

"It was a truly disturbing moment: a former president, who tried to undermine democracy, bullying a man who is fighting to preserve it. The scene was set in the Oval Office, where President Trump and ...

I have recently moved from where I lived in Martinez, California, to a nicer place in a nearby town. I needed something more comfortable. And where I lived, the stressful conditions made it very hard ...

Another busy week. What looks like the most important meetings highligghted covering things like DEI, Gaza, racist text scandal, block grants, and when building projects require a public hearing or ...