Public Affairs

Amherst Sanctuary Community Vote, In Favor

Residents in Amherst will be voting on a proposed bylaw during the April 26, 2017 town meeting. The proposal would declare Amherst a sanctuary community, strengthening language from a previous resolution. The term sanctuary city has become somewhat of a controversy of...

Making It Here: Photojournalist Ben Brody

Ben Brody has been photographing and writing about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2005. The result of his six years of work is titled FOREVERSTAN, an ambitious multimedia exploration of America’s attempts to extricate itself from Afghanistan in an orderly...

Adopting Older Children in Massachusetts

There are 800 children in foster care in Massachusetts waiting to be adopted, but finding families for older children can be a challenge. Teenagers in foster care often have been waiting years to finally have a family to call their own. Carolee McGrath discusses...

Automated External Defibrillators

A new law was signed into law by Governor Charlie Baker at the start of this year requiring all schools to have AEDs, or automated external defibrillators, which can be used to save someone’s life who is in cardiac arrest. The bill was inspired largely by Kevin...