Community
With new parks in planning stages, some question when long overdue building upgrades will be prioritized for the parks department.
Hi, what are you looking for?
The Shoestring
All posts tagged "feature"
Housing
A much needed broker fee ban in Northampton has been stalled at the state level for years. Now, it could become law statewide.
Labor
As negotiations for a first contract continued into a third year, employees at the Northampton immigration law firm learned this month they would be...
Community
The Gazette says it will restore years' worth of articles that disappeared. Experts say the issue highlights a bigger problem: the impermanence of online...
Housing
The town's rent control board will continue to take public comment on the proposed 43% rent increase later this month.
Labor
With negotiations underway for a first contract, the union says the college withheld raises. Smith has fired back with unfair labor practice charges of...
Labor
Trulieve will pay a $350,000 fine over the 2022 death Lorna McMurrey, a worker at the company's Holyoke grow facility.
Education
As UMass backs out of a commitment to consider divestment, a Shoestring investigation reveals its endowment has millions indirectly invested in defense contractors and...
Education
The staff union will hold a vote of no confidence in school leadership over “a culture of secrecy” and “deception.”
Investigations
With police brass ignoring some recommendations last year, critics call the spending a "waste of money."
Housing
On the podcast, we discuss how tenants and homeowners can fight back amid the state's worsening housing crisis.
Community
Operations aren’t impacted yet. But the situation has spotlighted library funding inequities.