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The agency’s crime lab needs to extract data from disks that first came on the market in 1996—but what for?
It’s clear that the MBTA is already looking past its shuttle costs, which according to bid documents are expected to run approximately $250 million over five years. This is a documentation of what Greater Bostonians endured during track repairs.
Attorneys argue: “Because the non-homicide sentences govern when [Chism] is eligible for parole, he can’t see the Parole Board for 40 years where it would be 30 years at most for any juvenile sentenced to first-degree murder.”
Arbitrary and capricious rules created on too many subreddits by volunteer moderators make it virtually impossible for independent journalists to use the supposedly open and democratic platform to help build our audiences in a period when we have few other options
A roundup of recent articles from the Massachusetts independent press
The ongoing collapse of the free press is … and news outlets like BINJ need your help
Berklee student Louis De Schouwer is blending shelf-stocking with social media stardom as he trades frat houses for future concert venues
“Our town is now leading the way for affordable access to plant medicine and is setting an example for our state.”
A timeline of the new but troubled Green Line Extension’s opening … and closing … and opening … and slowing … 
“We’re very under-stocked with housing opportunities. Since we had 52 people in the shelter, getting housing for only 12 of them means that there were a lot left out. So we’re in desperate need of additional housing.”

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