Dan Kennedy reports the death of James Shearer, whose Spare Change News reported on the homeless in Boston - and gave them a way to earn some money by hawking the paper.
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By adamg - 7/4/10 - 9:53 am
Samuel J. Scott reads up on the Gen. McChrystal saga and recalls a tough decision he had to make when he was editor of Spare Change News and a reporter got a scoop that could jeopardize a major source of the paper's everyday stories.
By adamg - 3/6/09 - 4:32 pm
Here's a photo of the guy who's been scamming sympathetic Red Line riders by giving them a copy of the Metro or the Dig or God knows what instead of Spare Change News when they hand over a dollar (or more, since he begs for additional funds).
By adamg - 2/27/09 - 8:55 am
Sarah reports her boyfriend was a victim of a Spare Change duper at the Davis Square T stop yesterday: He gave the guy a dollar (and another dollar because, well, he was also panhandling) and, instead of Spare Change News, the guy gave him some other, free, paper.
By adamg - 2/15/06 - 11:05 pm
The distributed-by-homeless paper will print one of the Danish cartoons in this week's issue:
In defense of free speech and accurate eeporting, Spare Change News will publish one of the controversial Mohammed cartoons tomorrow morning with an accompanying editorial defending our decision and
criticizing The Boston Globe, Boston Herald and Boston Phoenix for not printing the images.
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