For the past month or so, Open Media Boston has had the chance to play with a unique breed of netbook streamlined for web content consumption produced by Boston-based company, litl.
Well, it’s budget season in Massachusetts again. Where has the time gone? It’s only been a few months since the Gov. Deval Patrick used his Section 9C powers to make another bunch of budget cuts. Now he’s released his Fiscal Year 2001 budget proposal - and the Mass.
Porter Sq. Books in Cambridge was wall-to-wall with long-time activist Friday.
A community news publication like Open Media Boston is built on the hard work of our reporters. The more talented reporters we have, the more stories we can cover every week, and therefore the more we can accurately reflect the community (really several communities) that we serve.
BOSTON/Back Bay - Twilight was bittersweet on Friday in front of Boston's Arlington Street Church as Renewal House, a Roxbury based shelter for victims of domestic abuse, held their Valentine's Day Vigil to raise awareness about domestic violence.
For more than a century, African art has challenged the western imagination. How and why does an embroidered apron, for example, made in the 1970s by an unidentified, young South African woman, merit a place in a world-class museum?
The Journal of New Organizing, "an online publication devoted to reporting and analyzing organizing practices, leadership development, and campaign innovation in the progressive community," has recently announced publication of its first issue.
The race for Massachusetts governor got much more exicting for area progressives over the last week with the entry of two experienced candidates - Grace Ross and Dr. Jilll Stein. Both have run for the office (and other offices) in the last decade as Green-Rainbow Party candidates.
Cambridge, MA - On the one hand, newspapers like the Cincinnati Post, the Rocky Mountain News, and the Christian Science Monitor are going out of business or becoming on-line only publications.
BOSTON/State House - In the face of continued conservative resistance to immigration reform proposals nationwide, over 100 undocumented immigrant students and allies attended the Wednesday January 27th hearing of the Mass.