About Scott Van Voorhis
Welcome to Contrarian Boston
I became a reporter because I had a passion for getting to the heart of the matter, and, failing that, raising some good questions.
Three decades later, I’m still at it.
Launched in 2021, Contrarian Boston offers a different take on the news, one that does its best to cut through the mind-numbingly predictable partisanship that pervades life today, and has fun while it is at it.
Our stories have been cited by The Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, CommonWealth Beacon, and Dan Kennedy’s Media Nation blog, among other publications. Today we have more than 10,000 subscribers, several hundred of them paid.
You’ll find a fair amount of original reporting here, from investigative pieces to shorter stories, as well as fact-based analysis and commentary on the events of the day.