Suing to ‘keep the lights on’ and four more stories
Click here THE SATURDAY SEND Welcome back to the Saturday Send, a weekly digest of stories from CommonWealth Beacon that you may have missed. In this week's roundup: Jennifer Smith talks to anti-discrimination housing organizations as they grapple with federal funding cuts that imperil their work. Plus: Frozen funds for farmers, what’s driving an MBTA lawsuit, the latest on the voc-tech admissions saga, and the extension of a pandemic-era policy. Check out those stories below, and, as always, thanks for reading. - The CommonWealth Beacon team Anti-discrimination housing orgs sue to ‘quite literally keep the lights on’ by Jennifer Smith When the nondescript email landed in Maureen St. Cyr’s inbox, she didn’t know it would be taking more than half her housing nonprofit’s funding with it. “The amount that we lost overnight was 52 percent of our annual budget,” said St. Cyr, executive director of the Holyoke nonprofit, focused but...