Boston’s mayor bracing for potential National Guard deployment
The Trump administration has already dispatched the Guard to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

Massachusetts ecologists build a winter ‘hotel’ for snakes
The success of the rocky structure will be measured once temperatures drop.
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Harvard Graduate School of Education shuts down DEI office
Harvard was already grappling with the loss of billions in research funding when the Trump administration threatened to pull federal student aid. -
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Recount shows Lisa Field held lead in Taunton and Easton state rep race — by 15 votes
The recount for the open House seat to represent parts of Taunton and Easton concluded with the Democrat who originally claimed victory holding on to her win, though by a slightly smaller margin. -
A Walk Down the Block: Brockton, Cape Verde's '11th island'
Around 70,000 Cape Verdeans live in Massachusetts, with many of them now calling Brockton home. -
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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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