Three years ago, a woman incarcerated in the Barnstable County jail asked a member of the sheriff’s staff for help with her writing. The jail’s response became a class for incarcerated women on writing their own life stories. CAI’s Jennette Barnes joined the class for a day.
Immigration arrests and deportations have shot up in New England, with the participation of federal, regional and local institutions.
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Carolina “Caro” Muñoz Agudelo, recently earned a science doctorate degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is now the director of public programming and research at Norcross Wildlife Foundation in Wales.
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Drivers could have access to the rebuilt Sagamore Bridge sooner than they thought. Officials gave an update on the replacement of the two Cape Cod bridges.
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“The idea of letting this opportunity go to waste when it is there right now is unconscionable, in my opinion,” said Jessica Radbord, a senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont.
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Many of the state's key industries are already struggling to find enough workers.
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Amid demographic shifts and a decline in the number of college-age students, Messina College in Brookline is appealing to one population group that is still growing: Latino students.
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Activists cite political climate, fear and different priorities among local leaders of color as reasons for lack of action in the streets.
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The ballooning use of artificial intelligence and cloud-based computing is fueling a rise in data centers — which store and process all the information needed to power these systems. Massachusetts residents are joining the pushback.
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Mary Lake drives all over the Northeast in the spring, shearing people's sheep and talking with them about the health of their flock.
Stories from NENC journalists on how your efforts to save money can also help the climate
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