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Northampton, Massachusetts · NorthamptonAt 7:00 a.m., a line has already formed on Center Street around the corner from the First Churches of Northampton, pale light falling on its steeple. Minutes later, the doors swing open to a long, high-ceilinged hallway, and the procession shuffles towards a dining room furnished with folding tables and chairs. At 8:00 a.m., a new queue forms: the first batches of food are passed through the kitchen service windows, staffed by apron-clad volunt…See the Story
Amid staggering demand for food assistance, new federal law is poised to worsen hunger in western Mass
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Surveillance · ChicopeeJust about anywhere somebody goes in Chicopee — from public parks or city buildings to even their own homes — there’s likely a surveillance camera nearby that police can access. Those are the findings of The Shoestring’s investigation of the Chicopee Police Department’s new Real Time Crime Center — a massive surveillance network powered by software from policing technology firms including Axon Enterprise, Axis Communications, Milestone Systems, …Read Article
Surveillance state comes to Chicopee

Elizabeth Warren · ShirleyThis article is syndicated by the MassWire news service of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. If you want to see more reporting like this, make a contribution at givetobinj.org. James Ware first learned about the nodule on his lung three years ago. He had been sent from the Massachusetts Correctional Institution (MCI) in Shirley to Shattuck Hospital in Boston to get imaging for another medical issue; the test just happened to capture…Read Article