Right Size turns down another invite to debate Northland project

Right Size turns down another invite to debate Northland project

This note appeared this morning at the end of the Boston Globe’s Newton Report email newsletter..

Here’s an update from Boston University Adjunct Professor Gail Spector on her journalism class and its coverage of Newton:

Much to our disappointment, we were unable to host a debate between the opposing sides of the Northland ballot question in class this week because the “no” side was unable to provide someone to present its case.

As a result, students have only heard arguments in favor of the Northland development.  We did our best

The big fat Big Belly contract

The big fat Big Belly contract

Now that the Boston Globe is making a commitment to suburban news coverage, and particularly in Newton, maybe they can focus some of their efforts on abuses of mayoral power that have skirted state law. An example was the roll-out of the Big Belly trash collection...

John Hilliard taking a break from the Globe

Here’s more bad news for everyone who is concerned about the lack of substantive (or any) journalism in Newton.  Boston Globe freelancer John Hilliard, who has provided some of the deepest news reporting about Newton over the past couple years — including...

Globe columnist weighs in on the Lennon/Fuller ‘gender war’ UPDATED

Shirley Leung’s latest Boston Globe column begins….

As mayoral races go, this one was really boring. Until one candidate tried to stir up a little class antipathy, and instead started a gender war.

Read the rest here.

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Where are Newton’s drones?

Where are Newton’s drones?

The FAA recently released the locations of registered drones around the country. Using that data, the Boston Globe offered up a city-based map showing where the drones are around the state, though I think they got the data wrong. Their count only shows 122 drones in...