Western Mass Politics & Insight

The April 18 meeting of the City Council featured a fierce if not always accurate debate about the future of virtual participation for members.

Take My Council, Please: Hungry, Hungry HIPAAs… — Western Mass Politics & Insight The Springfield City Council had a debate on in-person attendance on April 18 that no councilor could miss.

's push to create municipal-owned internet service provider reaches a critical point at this week's Town Meeting. That has also prompted an invasion of an untraceable dark money that has its roots in Minnesota and which has branched out and touched random issues and elections across the country.

Longmeadow Daze: Something Wicked Dark Money This Way Comes… — Western Mass Politics & Insight For some in Longmeadow, it may seem like there has been somebody—or some thing—new in town for the better part of the last two years. As the town has moved toward developing its own municipal fiber, that is local Internet service, a nebulous and shadowy

The principal public media outlet in Western Massachusetts, New England Public Media, is merging into its sorta/erstwhile parent GBH. The GBH says NEPM will continue to exist and insists the eventual savings will be reinvested into more reporting resources.

West & East of Local Public Media, NEPM & GBH, to Formally Join Hands… — Western Mass Politics & Insight Seven years after New England Public Radio and WGBY merged to become NEPM, the nonprofit media landscape is shifting again.