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- CITY COUNCIL NOTES
Meet the Candidates for Northampton City Council
Northampton City Council Passes Budget over Calls to Reduce Police “Footprint”
Northampton City Council to Vote on Budget Thursday
Northampton City Council Moves on Reparations, Climate Department, and Liquor Licenses
Northampton City Council To Vote on Liquor Licenses
- PODCAST
Episode 17: Police Accountability and the Media
Ep 16: “I Have Space in My Life”: Remembering the era of COVID spending with Michael Hanson and Lin Gen
Episode 15: Cookouts and Cash: Sheriff Nick Cocchi’s campaign warchest with Dusty Christensen
Episode 14: Climate Justice with Terry Gibson and Basav Sen
Episode 13: Cathy McNally on Taking Down her Black Lives Matter Sign
- TOPICS
- News
New Tax Cuts Prompt Debates about Affordability
Local Rallies, Actions Continue as Israeli Bombardment of Gaza Intensifies
Activists Blockade Northampton Weapons Manufacturer
Redacted: State Withholding Plans for New Women’s Prison
McGovern, Activists Disagree on Strategy for Ending Cuba, Venezuela Sanctions
- Police
Northampton Settles Police Excessive Force Case for $75,000
Police Statewide are Keeping Their Weapons Inventories Secret
Amid sexual harassment scandal, Holyoke police captain retires with pension, PTO payout
“We’re Gonna Cheat”: Northampton Police Accused of “Open Admission of Malfeasance”
State’s Longest Sentences Could Get a “Second Look”
- Labor
- Community
Two Months On, Palestine Solidarity Actions Continue Across Western Mass
Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday, and The Shoestring Wants to Give You Art
Grassroots Organizing Sweeps New Faces into Greenfield City Government
The Wired, Wired West: The Collapse of Public Internet in Easthampton and the Struggle to Connect Massachusetts’ Overlooked Communities
A “Progressive Blueprint” for Greenfield
- Education
Easthampton Parent Sues Schools Over Unenrollment of Child by Non-Custodial Parent
Meet the At-Large Candidates for Northampton School Committee
New UMass Group Works to Oust Raytheon From Campus
Longmeadow School Board Candidate Appears to have Scrubbed Far-Right Views From Social Media
UMass Ordered to Pause Privatization of Advancement Jobs for Legal Review
- Culture
- Housing
‘Right to Shelter’ at a Tipping Point in Massachusetts
Springfield Residents Rally for Fair Home Buyback Negotiations with Fannie Mae
Holyoke Residents Rally for Basic Housing Rights, Call for New City Office to Protect Tenants
New Tenants’ Union Co-Hosts ‘Know Your Rights’ Workshop
Northampton Landlord Retaliates Against Renters for Forming Tenants Association
- Environment
- News
Labor
Members claim the grocery chain's management fabricated a write-up of National President Jamie Edwards, among other unfair labor practices.
Labor
The union has picketed nationwide after going on strike in July for better working conditions in the streaming era.
Labor
Across different sectors, workers and organizers around western Mass are optimistic for the future.
Labor
The effort is the latest union-organizing "first" to happen in Hadley
Labor
The store is just the second to unionize nationwide at the book retail giant. By Dusty Christensen HADLEY — Workers at the Barnes &...
Labor
By SARAH ROBERTSON AMHERST – The University of Massachusetts Amherst is still pursuing plans to move about 100 public, unionized jobs to the non-unionized...
Labor
UAW members and union leaders in western Massachusetts said that the election is a symptom of a growing militancy in the labor movement nationwide....
Education
By SARAH ROBERTSON AMHERST – Unionized employees of the University of Massachusetts Amherst development office held a rally on campus Monday against a plan...
Education
As tensions over mediated contract negotiations continue, educators will stop non-essential work By Ben Parra On Monday, February 27, School Committee members of the...
Labor
After asking for a tax break, Mansour Ghalibaf has changed his mind for Conz St. Project By Dusty Christensen NORTHAMPTON — The city is...
Education
Trustees voted Thursday not to surrender the Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School’s charter to the state over academic and financial concerns. By Dusty...
Labor
Montague cafe workers join United Food and Commercial Workers Union By Joanna Mae Boody and Spencer Fox Peterson On Wednesday, December 14th, the staff...
Labor
By Dusty Christensen HADLEY — Trader Joe’s workers in Hadley are heading to the bargaining table for the first-ever labor negotiations with the company....
Labor
An NLRB election is likely to take place this semester By Dusty Christensen SOUTH HADLEY — For many college students, dorm life is one...
Labor
Court finds unionizer’s activities to be harassment towards former supervisor By Jonathan Gerhardson WEST SPRINGFIELD — Dan Arlin had been a driver for UPS...