Free Press subscribers dismayed as Bari Weiss sells to Paramount | Unbelievable housing production stats | Mass. schools fail students | Wu to headline No Kings! protest | Happy 30th Boston Guardian | Contrarian Boston depends upon your support - we can’t do it without you.

Some Free Press subscribers dismayed as Bari Weiss sells to Paramount | Unbelievable housing production stats | Wu to headline No Kings! protest | Happy 30th Boston Guardian | open.substack.com/pub/scottvan... @universalhub.com #localnews #NoKings
#mapoli #bospoli

Beleuchtetes Schaufenster einer Buchhandlung mit einem großen Slogan im Schaufenster auf dem in Großbuchstaben steht Fuck social media read books

Fuck social media
read books

Breaking News: Indicted Suffolk County sheriff burned through tens of thousands in taxpayer cash on everything from pricey restaurants to bras Power independent journalism and reporting.

New in Contrarian Boston: Indicted Suffolk County sheriff burned through tens of thousands in taxpayer cash on everything from pricey restaurants to bras open.substack.com/pub/scottvan... #MApoli #massachusetts #bospoli #Boston #bostoncity #SteveTompkins #SuffolkSheriff #localnews

Emily Rooney on 9/11 | The problem with media people urging Kraft to quit | Mindboggling T still not collecting all fares | Lawmakers eye school reading crisis | Cannabis greed backfires for towns | Power independent journalism and reporting.

New in Contrarian Boston: Emily Rooney on 9/11 | The problem with media people urging Kraft to quit | Mindboggling T still not collecting all fares | School reading crisis | Cannabis greed backfires on towns | open.substack.com/pub/scottvan... #Localnews #mapoli #bospoli @universalhub.com #cannabis

Special Report: Nation's highest court to review appeal from thousands of victims of Bay State's drug lab scandal Power independent journalism and reporting.

New in Contrarian Boston/by Maggie Mulvihill: Nation's highest court to review appeal from thousands of victims of Bay State's drug lab scandal open.substack.com/pub/scottvan... @universalhub.com #mapoli #bospoli #druglab #supremecourt #localnews #localreporting @dankennedy.net

In Ukraine peace proposals, echoes of the 1930s | For lead investor in embattled Boston soccer stadium plan, a Celtics sale bonanza | Raytheon to expand Andover defense factory | Quick hits | Power independent journalism and reporting.

New in Contrarian Boston: In Ukraine peace proposals, echoes of the 1930s | For lead investor in embattled Boston soccer stadium plan, a Celtics sale bonanza | Raytheon to expand Andover defense factory open.substack.com/pub/scottvan... #mapoli #bospoli #localnews @universalhub.com #UkraineWar

Become a News Defender | Celebrity pitchman for sham life insurance to get statue in Trump's heroes garden | Billions failed to boost student scores | Battle rages on to save Newton's Italian Street | Power independent journalism and reporting.

New in Contrarian Boston: Become a News Defender | Celebrity pitchman for sham life insurance gets statue in Trump's heroes garden | Billions failed to boost student scores | Battle rages over Newton's Italian Street | open.substack.com/pub/scottvan... #localnews @universalhub.com #mapoli #bospoli

Embattled sheriff netted tens of thousands in campaign contributions from staffers | Emily Rooney on some strange mayoral race ads | Tentative winner in battle for pivotal Mass. Lottery contract | Power independent journalism and reporting.

Embattled sheriff netted tens of thousands in campaign contributions from staffers | Emily Rooney on some strange mayoral race ads | Tentative winner in battle for pivotal Mass. Lottery contract |
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#mapoli #massachusetts #bospoli #boston #localnews @universalhub.com

T sure knows how to spend money | Emily Rooney on Copley Square's costly and mystifying redesign | Check out Contrarian Boston's energy crisis forum | Quick hits | Power independent journalism and reporting.

New in Contrarian Boston: T sure knows how to spend money | Emily Rooney on Copley Square's costly and mystifying redesign | Check out Contrarian Boston's energy crisis forum | Quick hits | open.substack.com/pub/scottvan...
@universalhub.com #mapoli #massachusetts #bospoli #boston #localnews

Will mainstream media swallow up The Free Press? | Emily Rooney on the Copley Square redesign muddle | Fenway tower flop bad news for Wu | Boston rental market gets even tougher | Power independent journalism and reporting.

Will mainstream media swallow up The Free Press? | Emily Rooney on the Copley Square redesign muddle | Fenway tower flop bad news for Wu | Boston rental market gets tougher | open.substack.com/pub/scottvan...
@universalhub.com #mapoli #massachusetts #bospoli #boston #localnewsm#localjournalism

Mass. lawyer work stoppage leaves nearly 1,400 defendants without counsel Of the more than 1,300 people who have gone to court in Massachusetts and weren't given a lawyer, 32 of them have been held in jail past the legal limit.

1,400 indigent defendants in Massachusetts without lawyers, numbers growing daily as public defender bar advocates refuse new cases over low pay. #mapoli #publicdefender www.masslive.com/news/2025/06...

Emily Rooney on Boston's bizarre bike lanes | No Kings demonstrates political savvy | Mass. teachers union and its bulging political war chest | Wu administration's growing tax scandal | Contrarian Boston depends upon your support - we can’t do it without you.

New in Contrarian Boston: Emily Rooney on Boston's bizarre bike lanes | No Kings demonstrates political savvy | Mass. teachers union and its bulging war chest
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@universalhub.com #localnews #mapoli #massachusetts #bospoli #boston #bikelanes @dankennedy.net #localnews

The agenda for 6/25 @bostoncitycouncil.bsky.social mtg is out & @edflynnforboston.bsky.social Docket #1286 jumps out, citing @bosbizjournal.bsky.social, @scottvv.bsky.social, & @bostonherald.bsky.social articles to ask for info abt charges City Hall is "illegally raising building values." #bospoli

I love seeing bikers all over the city, and I would like to see less traffic, but the current arrangement is a willy-nilly hodgepodge; dangerous, befuddling, and maddening to everyone; and, in fact, outright whimsical.

My friend Emily Rooney has written an essay for @scottvv.bsky.social's newsletter, Contrarian Boston, on bike lanes in the city. If you were expecting an anti-bike screed, you'll be surprised. Who could disagree with this? scottvanvoorhis.substack.com/p/emily-roon...

Breaking News | Chinese rail giant building T's new Orange and Red Line cars warns of production shutdown as parts held up at the U.S. border Contrarian Boston depends upon your support - we can’t do it without you.

Contrarian Boston Exclusive: Chinese rail giant building T's new Orange and Red Line cars warns of production shutdown as parts held up at the U.S. border open.substack.com/pub/scottvan...

@universalhub.com #MBTA #Trump #China #LocalNews #Construction #development #border #traincars

Boston's NIMBY Rich | Second time around, bombshell stories on Trumpian antics have gone missing | Join Contrarian Boston on Thursday as we delve into the Bay State's energy crisis | Contrarian Boston depends upon your support - we can’t do it without you.

New in Contrarian Boston:

Boston's NIMBY Rich | Second time around, bombshell stories on Trumpian antics have gone missing |
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@universalhub.com #mapoli #massachusetts #bospoli #boston #localnews #massachusetts #NIMBY #towers #downtownboston #media #localjournalism

In explosive book on Biden health coverup, two Mass pols do the right thing | Wu's number games on stadium mega project | Healey, Moulton get prominent mentions in new political blockbuster, “Original Sin” | Join Contrarian Boston on June 26 as we delve into the future of offshore wind and the Bay State’s energy crisis |...

New in Contrarian Boston: In explosive book on Biden health coverup, two Mass pols do the right thing | Wu's number games on stadium mega project | open.substack.com/pub/scottvan...

@localnewsmatters.bsky.social #localnews @universalhub.com #Biden #Healey #Moulton #mapoli #bospoli

Shooting the messenger at Boston City Hall | NPR's "On the Media" anything but that | NPR’s “On the Media” trapped in a progressive bubble | The wily Congressman Lynch | Crimson Courage | Grudge-fest at Boston City Hall | Mancuso: No accountability for billions Mass.

New in Contrarian Boston: Shooting the messenger at Boston City Hall | NPR's "On the Media" anything but that | open.substack.com/pub/scottvan...

@universalhub.com #mapoli #massachusetts #bospoli #Boston #localnews #NPR #taxappeals

Contrarian Boston Forum | Bay State energy crisis | June 26 at noon | Register here:

Contrarian Boston Forum | Bay State energy crisis | June 26 at noon |
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Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#mapoli #massachusetts #bospoli #boston #localnews @universalhub.com #energycrisis #electricbills #offshorewind #nuclearpower #solar #naturalgas

Economic delusions and Boston's mayoral race | Gaza show you won't hear on NPR | Big win for ousted state pot chief | Power independent journalism and reporting.

Economic delusions and Boston's mayoral race | Gaza show you won't hear on NPR | Big win for ousted state pot chief | open.substack.com/pub/scottvan...

#localnews @universalhub.com #mapoli #massachusetts #bospoli #boston #housingcrisis #JoshKraft #MIchelleWu #NPR #Gaza #cannabis

Former MBTA police sergeant from Rutland found guilty of filing false arrest report Prosecutors say he tried to conceal assault by another officer.

"A federal jury on Thursday, May 29 found a former Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority police sergeant from Rutland guilty of helping draft a false arrest report about another officer's assault on a man at a subway station in 2018."

#mapoli

05.29.2025/Breaking News News tips?

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New in Contrarian Boston:

The sky’s the limit: Boston could see new towers as high as 70 stories under new plan for city’s beleaguered downtown

@universalhub.com #mapoli #bospoli #boston #massachusetts #downtownboston #housingcrisis

05.21.2025 Globe's intellectually dishonest piece on mayoral race mudslinging | Open air drug use, dealing explodes around Boston Medical Center | Spring real estate market in Greater Boston turns dismal as sale...

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New in Contrarian Boston:

@universalhub.com #mapoli #massachusetts #bospoli #boston @gregmaynard.bsky.social #massandcass #localnews #SouthEnd #homesales #homeprices #GreaterBoston

05.19.2025 Harvard admin costs soar | Not so NIMBY Mass.

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New in Contrarian Boston:

-Runaway bureaucracy? Lost in the heat of the Trump/Harvard battle has been an explosion in administrative costs at the Ivy League university

#mapoli #bospoli #localnews @universalhub.com #massachusetts #harvard #collegecosts

05.12.2025 Mass.

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New in Contrarian Boston:

Costly obstruction: South End building owner hit with multimillion-dollar judgment for attempting to derail plans for rival condo project

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#localnews #Boston #development #NIMBY #YIMBY

This wk's @bankerandtradesman.bsky.social has a @scottvv.bsky.social column following up @bosbizjournal.bsky.social's Feb 2025 article describing growing concern Boston faces a repeat "Tregor Decision," which found Kevin White's City Hall systematically overtaxed office landlords.
#mapoli #bospoli

TOWN MEETING: Marblehead says ‘yea’ to 3A - Marblehead Current Voters at Town Meeting approved Article 23 by a vote of 951 voting “yes” to 759 voting “no” Tuesday night, adopting a multifamily zoning overlay district that brings the town into compliance with the ...

Happy to see Marblehead rise up, overcome a lot of selfishness, racism, fear, lies, and confusion - and approve MBTA communities housing law. Thank you to the local pro-housing group for a year of work on a rich white community that has resisted change. #mapoli marbleheadcurrent.org/2025/05/06/t...

05.07.2025 As the nation adds jobs, we’re shedding them | Museums, others, reaping a windfall from Wu’s free student admission program | Teachers want blowhard union bosses to stick a cork in it | State rental v...

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New in Contrarian Boston:

-Stop the grandstanding: Frustrated Bay State teachers want their union’s leadership to stop the bloviating on Gaza, other hot-button issues@universalhub.com #mapoli #bospoli #LocalNews #teachers #gaza #massteachers

Check out the latest from @scottvv.bsky.social in Contrarian Boston, which features an article abt how falling office values, not DC chaos, is driving the anemic growth in Boston’s FY26 budget.
#bospoli #mapoli

04.14.2025 Chuck Todd’s oh-so-sketchy plan to save local news | How prosecutors bumbled the Karen Read case | Harvard faces loss of billions in Trump fight | As Boston’s Kickback Councilor prepares to plead guil...

04.14.2025 open.substack.com/pub/scottvan...
New in Contrarian Boston:Bye-bye Starbucks, hello something new: Sisters who learned to bake during the pandemic bringing their act to Newton Centre

@universalhub.com #mapoli #massachusetts #bospoli #Boston #KarenReadTrial #KarenRead #LocalNews #Harvard