It’s that time of year again, when advocates gearing up for a shift in state administrations are laying out their policy goals. The latest report, released Thursday, comes from interviews […]
Health care leaders identify problems, solutions for Healey
Posted inHealth Care
Health care leaders identify problems, solutions for Healey
IT’S THAT TIME of year again, when advocates gearing up for a shift in state administrations are laying out their policy goals. The latest report, released Thursday, comes from interviews […]
Posted inTransportation
Biotech workers driving more, using the T less
SURVEYS OF LIFE science employees by MassBio in July 2019 and November 2022 indicate workers are now driving more and using public transportation less. The survey results mirror what the […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
SJC judges pose dismissal of 27,000 tainted drunk driving convictions
THERE IS NO QUESTION that for years, state breathalyzer tests were not certified correctly, and Massachusetts’ Office of Alcohol Testing acted egregiously when it withheld evidence about failed calibrations of […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
Baker issues three more pardons
AFTER FAILING TO issue a single pardon or commutation in his first seven years in office, Gov. Charlie Baker continued to use his final months in office to wield his […]
Posted inTransportation
Buried rail car turned up in GLX excavation
THE TEAM that constructed the Green Line extension to Medford and Somerville encountered all sorts of obstacles over the last four years, including unexpected bedrock, contaminated soil, ground water, and, […]
Posted inThe Download
Study says COVID vaccine mandates for university students causing net harm
LAST MONTH, in a commentary piece in CommonWealth, Tufts Medical Center physician and epidemiologist Shira Doron and Monica Gandhi, a professor medicine at the University of California – San Francisco, […]
Posted inHealth Care
Study says COVID vaccine mandates for university students causing ‘net harm’
LAST MONTH, in a commentary piece in CommonWealth, Tufts Medical Center physician and epidemiologist Shira Doron and Monica Gandhi, a professor medicine at the University of California – San Francisco, […]
Posted inOpinion
Straight talk about plastics recycling
HAS RECENT NEWS left you wondering if it’s worthwhile to rinse and sort your plastic containers? As a lifelong waste warrior and 30-year recycling professional, my answer is an emphatic […]
Posted inState Government, State House News Service
Healey’s office approves Nantucket topless beach bylaw
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE ATTORNEY GENERAL Maura Healey’s office has approved a bylaw that allows anyone to go topless on any public or private beach on Nantucket. Island voters approved […]
Posted inHealth Care
Hospitals criticized for ‘low-value’ procedures
THE LOWN INSTITUTE of Needham has long argued that hospitals perform way too many procedures it has identified as being low-value, meaning they offer little to no clinical benefit to […]
Posted inThe Download
Mass. again comes in 2d on energy efficiency efforts
FOR THE SECOND year in a row, Massachusetts came in second behind California on a national scorecard of energy efficiency efforts. Massachusetts earned 44.5 out of a possible 50 points, […]
Posted inEnergy
Mass. again comes in 2nd on energy efficiency efforts
FOR THE SECOND year in a row, Massachusetts came in second behind California on a national scorecard of energy efficiency efforts. Massachusetts earned 44.5 out of a possible 50 points, […]
Posted inTransportation
REAL ID deadline pushed back to 2025
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE SAYING IT WANTED to alert the public, the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles late Monday announced that the US Department of Homeland Security has extended the […]
Posted inHealth, Opinion, Transportation
Mass. plagued by regional inequities
THIS PAST ELECTION DAY, Massachusetts celebrated several historic milestones with the shattering of glass ceilings that we have long sought to break through. As we look ahead to the new […]
Posted inTransportation
Baker, Polito call South Coast Rail a matter of fairness
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito said the $1 billion South Coast Rail project scheduled to open late next year is about fairness to southeastern Massachusetts. At the […]
Posted inThe Codcast
Epidemiologist lays out her COVID-19 ‘campaign of honesty’
CommonWealth Magazine · Epidemiologist lays out her COVID-19 ‘campaign of honesty’
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Epidemiologist lays out her COVID-19 ‘campaign of honesty’
When the coronavirus vaccines first emerged, they were shown to have 94 to 95 percent efficacy in preventing symptomatic COVID-19. It was a situation where the message from public health […]
Posted inHealth, Health Care
Epidemiologist lays out her COVID-19 ‘campaign of honesty’
WHEN THE CORONAVIRUS vaccines first emerged, they were shown to have 94 to 95 percent efficacy in preventing symptomatic COVID-19. It was a situation where the message from public health […]
Posted inEducation
Foster care mentoring turns into 20-year relationship
MIKE SMITH was 5 years old when he met Justin Pasquariello and Vanessa Fazio. Pasquariello, then 22, had started a Boston-based mentoring program for kids in foster care, and Fazio was […]
Posted inEducation
Schools flush with cash, but need better plan on how to spend it
IN 2010, a young Mark Zuckerberg partnered with a rising political star, then-Mayor Cory Booker, to donate $100 million dollars to Newark Public Schools. The idea was that a massive […]
Posted inOpinion
My personal evolution to embrace retirement
FOR THOSE OF US who have had a career that we enjoyed, “retirement” gives us pause. The questions I have been asking myself are: Am I ready to shed my […]
Posted inOpinion
A world without Black Twitter is difficult to think about
BEFORE THE DEATHS of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile and Sandra Bland were propelled into the media spotlight, their names were Twitter #hashtags. In 2020, Twitter was essential to […]
Posted inThe Download
Riders scarce at the T in first quarter
The MBTA’s first quarter financial report for the fiscal year wasn’t very good, so the transit authority tossed in some potentially promising news from the next quarter. The T has […]