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Nov 22, 2024 | 
theshoestring.org | Sarah Robertson
FRANKLIN COUNTY - Communities surrounding the Quabbin reservoir help protect a watershed that has supplied fresh water to the Boston area for nearly 80 years. Today, as more communities in the eastern part of the state are considering tapping into Quabbin water, officials in a dozen towns surrounding the reservoir are asking that the state first support their local water needs.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
nepm.org | Carrie Saldo |Sarah Robertson
Published October 11, 2024 at 10:38 AM EDT Ways To Subscribe Apple NPR One Spotify RSS 1 of 2 — thumbnail_Rundown Panel 10-11-24.jpg This week’s panel includes Elizabeth Román, managing editor for NEPM; Sten Spinella, reporter with The Berkshire Eagle [not pictured]; and independent journalist Sarah Robertson.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
theshoestring.org | Sarah Robertson
This article is a collaboration by The Shoestring and the Montague Reporter, and was featured in the latter's September 19, 2024 edition. SPRINGFIELD -In Massachusetts, it is illegal for a city or town to regulate how much a private property owner can charge for rent - except at mobile home parks.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
theshoestring.org | Hannah Vorst Shaffer |Sarah Robertson
By Hannah ShafferYears ago, I waited in a line that wrapped around the block outside a Rent Noho-listed apartment. Two rental agents stood outside while potential tenants streamed through the unit. No tours or property descriptions were offered, and would-be tenants filed through 10ten or more at a time. At the end, we received application forms and were told the $35 fee was non-refundable, even if we didn't get the apartment.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
theshoestring.org | Sarah Robertson
This article originally appeared in the June 27 edition of the Montague Reporter. The owners of Leisure Woods Estates are petitioning the town for permission to significantly increase their monthly lot fees for the second year in a row, while many residents of the mobile home park worry that they could be priced out of the community.
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Jul 6, 2024 | 
radiopaedia.org | Sarah Robertson |Rohit Sharma
Dengue encephalitis is a rare condition resulting from direct involvement of the central nervous system by the dengue virus, it is one of many viral encephalitides and flavivirus encephalitides. Dengue infection and dengue encephalitis, predominately occurs in tropical and subtropical areas of the world 1. Dengue encephalitis presents similar to other forms of encephalitis with non-specific symptoms such as headache, seizures and altered level of consciousness.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
theshoestring.org | Dusty Christensen |Sarah Robertson
Recently unionized library workers at Smith College are alleging that the school has broken labor law in recent months as the two sides begin the process of bargaining a first contract. This spring, some 43 employees of the college's libraries formed the Smith College Libraries Workers Union and voted unanimously to join the Office & Professional Employees International Union Local 153.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
theshoestring.org | Sarah Robertson |Brian Z. Zayatz
AMHERST - The state auditor's office recently determined that the University of Massachusetts Amherst violated state law last year when it eliminated over 100 unionized positions from the university's fundraising office and offered the workers jobs at the private UMass Amherst Foundation.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
theshoestring.org | Dan McGlynn |Sarah Robertson
The University of Massachusetts Foundation - the private non-profit corporation that manages the public university's endowment - has tens of millions of dollars in indirect investments in dozens of companies on a list of firms with ties to war, occupations, and border policing around the globe, federal filings show.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
theshoestring.org | Dusty Christensen |Sarah Robertson
Greenfield Community College has been thrown into turmoil in recent weeks over the revelation of a previously unreleased report from a consulting firm that questioned the commitment of campus leaders to diversity, equity, and inclusion. On Monday, the college's faculty-and-staff union said they voted nearly unanimously to hold a vote of no confidence in Provost Chet Jordan and President Michelle Schutt over the matter. The union will also present Schutt a list of demands for re-establishing trust.
