# New England Ledger
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- [About New England Ledger](https://www.newenglandledger.com/about.md) - Independent. Nonpartisan. Community-driven. New England Ledger is an independent digital newsroom covering the people, institutions, money, and decisions shaping New England. We publish accountability reporting, community stories, analysis, and opinion grounded in documents, data, firsthand experie…
- [Contact New England Ledger](https://www.newenglandledger.com/contact.md) - Have a question, correction, story idea or membership issue? Use the appropriate contact below so your message reaches the right person. General newsroom inquiries For questions about NEL, our reporting or possible story ideas: newsroom@newenglandledger.com Sensitive tips and documents Do not send…
- [Corrections Policy](https://www.newenglandledger.com/corrections.md) - Accuracy is not optional. When New England Ledger makes a factual error, we correct it clearly, promptly and in the same spirit of accountability we expect from the institutions we cover. How to request a correction Email: corrections@newenglandledger.com Please include: * The article headline and…
- [Ethics & Standards](https://www.newenglandledger.com/ethics.md) - New England Ledger exists to hold power accountable, elevate stories that are too often ignored and give New England readers the evidence behind our reporting. Our journalism may be direct. Our headlines may be pointed. But our factual claims must be supportable. Nonpartisan does not mean neutral b…
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## Posts
- [Editorial: Fake Ledger Page Borrows From Mass Daily News Playbook to Peddle Misinformation](https://www.newenglandledger.com/editorial-fake-ledger-page-borrows-from-mass-daily-news-playbook-to-peddle-misinformation.md) - After the New England Ledger began exposing Mass Daily "News" and Boston's political machine, a years-old anonymous account rebranded itself with our publication's name.
- [Ascend Used Social Equity to Win Its Boston License. Then Its President Helped Trump’s DOJ Prosecute His Former Partner.](https://www.newenglandledger.com/ascend-used-social-equity-to-win-its-boston-license-then-its-president-helped-trumps-doj-prosecute-his-former-partner.md) - A federal jury acquitted Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins in a prosecution built on testimony from Ascend Wellness President Frank Perullo, who cooperated under immunity with Trump's Justice Department.
- [Disgraced Former Democratic State Senator and Boston NAACP Appeal to Trump Administration to Withdraw Funds](https://www.newenglandledger.com/disgraced-former-democratic-state-senator-and-boston-naacp-appeal-to-trump-administration-to-withdraw-funds.md) - Dianne Wilkerson and Reggie Stewart want federal officials to withdraw $80 million from the Blue Hill Avenue redesign as the Trump administration targets transportation projects tied to equity and climate policy.
- [This September 1st, Unfinished Business Is on the Ballot](https://www.newenglandledger.com/this-september-1st-unfinished-business-is-on-the-ballot.md) - Beacon Hill left roughly a dozen major bills unfinished when formal sessions ended July 31. Housing, child care, energy, and end-of-life care all carry into the next term. In 118 of 200 districts, voters have only one candidate to choose from.
- [The Crybaby Councilor Strikes Again:  Flynn proposes limits to early voting in response to isolated poll incident](https://www.newenglandledger.com/the-crybaby-councilor-strikes-again-flynn-proposes-limits-to-early-voting-in-response-to-isolated-poll-incident.md) - Three voters got the wrong ballots in South Boston. Ed Flynn's answer is to limit early voting for the other 440,000.
- [Boston's Billion-Dollar Summer: Reports Show An Uneven Spread](https://www.newenglandledger.com/bostons-billion-dollar-summer-reports-show-an-uneven-spread.md) - The World Cup, Sail Boston, the nation's 250th. Officials are calling the summer a win. The contracting numbers are telling us otherwise.
- [Connecticut Just Toppled a 28-Year Democrat. Is Massachusetts Next?](https://www.newenglandledger.com/connecticut-just-toppled-a-28-year-democrat-is-massachusetts-next.md) - Luke Bronin's defeat of longtime Congressman John Larson was a political earthquake. Now Massachusetts voters are about to decide whether to send a similar message to one of their own longest-serving Democrats.
- [Judge Denies Injunction in Springfield Courthouse Suit, Finding No Evidence of Conflict](https://www.newenglandledger.com/breaking-judge-denies-injunction-in-springfield-courthouse-suit-finding-no-evidence-of-conflict.md) - The ruling lets the Healey administration and Liberty Junction keep advancing the new regional justice center, although the underlying lawsuit remains unresolved.
- [Democratic Senator Nick Collins Hired a Trump Operative. Voters Are Asking Why.](https://www.newenglandledger.com/democratic-senator-nick-collins-hired-a-trump-operative-voters-are-asking-why.md) - Massachusetts Sen. Nick Collins’s chief of staff has publicly supported Trump. Her politics are drawing new scrutiny as Collins avoids saying whether he supports rent control for Boston.
- [Red, White, & Sometimes Blue (Pt. 2)](https://www.newenglandledger.com/red-white-sometimes-blue-pt-2.md) - Nick Collins told WBUR most of his contributions came from Boston residents. His own filings have never shown a majority, on any measure, in any period.
- [Five Alarm Flynn At It Again: Councilor Calls for a $110M Boondoggle, Then Retreats the Next Day](https://www.newenglandledger.com/five-alarm-flynn-at-it-again-councilor-calls-for-110m-solution-for-the-wrong-problem.md) - Ed Flynn wanted $110 million of your money for soldiers on Boston streets, in a year when homicides are down 17 percent.
- [Is Boston’s Trump Train Having Family Drama?](https://www.newenglandledger.com/is-bostons-trump-train-having-family-drama-depina-threatens-to-voodoo-councilor-erin-murphy-then-apologizes-days-later.md) - He got mad at his ally Erin Murphy, went shopping for a voodoo doctor, then apologized four days later. Is the anti-Wu coalition one unread text message away from chaos?
- [WHITE NOISE: How the Right-Wing Media Lynch Mob Ignored Donor Ties and Scapegoated Two Black Men](https://www.newenglandledger.com/white-noise-springfield.md) - A Springfield redevelopment fight put two Black business leaders under a national spotlight. But a closer look at the contract, the numbers, and the political relationships behind the controversy raises new questions about who faced scrutiny and who escaped it.
- [Red, White, & Sometimes Blue (Pt. 1)](https://www.newenglandledger.com/red-white-and-sometimes-blue-nick-collins-1.md) - State Senator Nick Collins campaigns as a Democrat. Yet, his no votes on police accountability, immigrant driver's licenses, and Michelle Wu's tax shift tell a different story. And homeowners bear the brunt of those decisions.
- [Five Alarm Flynn: The Case of the Crybaby Councilor](https://www.newenglandledger.com/five-alarm-flynn.md) - On Tuesday, Ed Flynn demanded a man lose his job over a lawn sign. On Wednesday, hours after 45,000 neighbors lost the right to work, he blocked the resolution meant to keep them housed. Cost to the city: nothing.
- [Sean O'Brien's MAGA Turn](https://www.newenglandledger.com/sean-obrien.md) - He praised Donald Trump from the Republican convention stage and called Josh Hawley 100 percent on point. More on how the Teamsters president rode Boston labor to the top, then handed the mic to union busters.
- [SparkFM Is Fighting to Turn a Lease Into a Legacy](https://www.newenglandledger.com/own-the-block-sparkfm-is-fighting-to-turn-a-lease-into-a-legacy.md) - Danielle “Dani” Johnson built Boston’s first Black woman-led all-digital radio station into a community institution. Now she wants the people it serves to help secure its permanent home.
- [Rotary Clubs Rescue Connecticut Pantries from MAGA Policies](https://www.newenglandledger.com/meals-over-maga.md) - Connecticut Foodshare received 84 truckloads of federal food in early 2025. This year the projection is 26. Volunteers in Bridgeport spent one Saturday packing 100,000 meals to cover a gap they did not create.
- [RIGGED: How Mass Daily "News" Spreads Right-Wing Propaganda and Crowns False Heroes](https://www.newenglandledger.com/mass-daily-news.md) - A New England Ledger audit of 1,333 stories found a clear pattern. Ed Flynn and Erin Murphy get to be the heroes. Progressive women and leaders of color get attacked. Black and Latino communities are often shown through crime, fear, and crisis.
- [Trump’s HUD Lost in Court, Then Put Massachusetts’ Homeless Funding Back on the Chopping Block](https://www.newenglandledger.com/housing-heist-trumps-hud-lost-in-court-then-put-massachusetts-homeless-funding-back-on-the-chopping-block.md) - Courts side with AG Campbell and her coalition, blocking HUD’s attack on homeless funding. Trump’s housing agency came back with a recycled scheme—and put 97,000 people back in the crosshairs nationwide.
- [Worcester Warned Residents Off the Lake but Skipped the Part About What Failed](https://www.newenglandledger.com/a-lake-full-of-questions-worcester-warned-residents-off-the-lake-but-skipped-the-part-about-what-failed.md) - Fifteen thousand gallons of raw sewage, two hours to stop it, and no answer yet on what broke, when it was last inspected, or what is being repaired.
- [MAR-A-LAGO-MINOGUE FOR MA GOVERNOR??? He’s Given Close to $1M to Trump and Vance. Now He Wants to be Guv.](https://www.newenglandledger.com/maralago-minogue.md) - Mike Minogue poured nearly $1 million into Trump-world, hosted JD Vance, then erased MAGA from his multimillion-dollar makeover for Massachusetts voters.

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