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- CITY COUNCIL NOTES
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
Northampton Poised to Create Reparations Panel
- PODCAST
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
Episode 12: Dash Cams, Motorola Solutions, Northampton, Oh My
- TOPICS
- News
- Police
Judge: Civil-Rights Lawsuit Against Northampton Police can Proceed
Protesters rally against police brutality in Northampton after violent arrest
EXCLUSIVE: Northampton Police Tackle, Pepper-Spray 60 Year Old Woman
Records: Easthampton Police Install Automatic License Plate Reader on Route 141
Journalist Sues Northwestern DA over Redacted Records
- Labor
- Community
- Education
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
REAL Talk at JFK Middle School
Striking Springfield Daycare Workers Use Their “Outside Voices”
- Culture
- Housing
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
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Valley residents discuss the impact of government spending during the early Covid-19 pandemic, who was left out of that spending, and how locals organized...
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We speak to writer Dusty Christensen about his latest piece on Sheriff Nick Cocchi’s campaign fundraising. Cocchi raised more than any other sheriff in...
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Shoestring reporters Sierra Dickey and Sarah Robertson speak to Terry Gibson and Basav Sen about climate justice efforts in Springfield, MA and beyond and...
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In a new episode of Trippin on The Shoestring, co-editor Will spoke with Cathy McNally about why she took down her Black Lives Matter...
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In this episode we talk with Dr. Steven Thrasher, a professor of journalism at Northwestern University, and author of the upcoming book, The Viral...
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In this episode we share an interview we conducted in January with Sarah Lanzilotta, the owner of Ten Forward in Greenfield, about the challenges...
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We sit down with investigative reporter Dusty Christensen of the Daily Hampshire Gazette to discuss his recent work on the internal affairs of the...
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The Shoestring’s Covid data columnist Joe Pater joins us to discuss how public information about the virus has been disseminated and how it hasn’t....
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The Shoestring talks with media scholar Victor Pickard about the failure of advertising revenue to fund local journalism, the need for publicly funded local...
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We invited former Daily Hampshire Gazette reporter and frequent Shoestring and Montague Reporter contributor Sarah Robertson to discuss the state of local news in...
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We talk with Shoestring staff writer and labor correspondent Roman Nicholas about his recent expose on ServiceNet. In the piece, Nicholas spoke to shelter...