LAWRENCE HIGH School is under siege and it looks like a battleground. Not because of a handful of students fighting in the hallways whose scraps have garnered more attention than […]
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Marijuana prices show signs of leveling out
ARE POT PRICES in Massachusetts finally dropping? Since Massachusetts allowed the first legal marijuana sales in November 2018, prices for legal cannabis have remained high. High prices are one factor […]
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Marijuana prices show signs of leveling out
ARE POT PRICES in Massachusetts finally dropping? Since Massachusetts allowed the first legal marijuana sales in November 2018, prices for legal cannabis have remained high. High prices are one factor […]
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New T board likely to move at slower pace
THE NEW PERMANENT MBTA board of directors seems poised to move at a much more leisurely pace than its predecessor, the Fiscal and Management Control Board. Under the statute that […]
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State: School testing delays are being resolved
MASSACHUSETTS HEALTH and education officials acknowledged on Thursday that “logistical challenges” led to a delayed rollout of the state’s COVID-19 testing program in schools, but they said the problems, which […]
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T delays Green Line extension a second time
THE MBTA is once again delaying the initial opening of the Green Line extension into Somerville, this time because cramped quarters in a newly built facility for delivering electricity to […]
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Massachusetts preps for Nov. vaccine rollout to kids
MASSACHUSETTS EXPECTS to receive 360,000 doses of the pediatric Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine by November 5, Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders said Thursday. Unlike the initial vaccine […]
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What our ‘anchor mission’ means for central Mass.
EARLIER THIS YEAR, UMass Memorial Health, the largest health care system in central Massachusetts, welcomed Harrington Hospital in Southbridge into its family. A merger of a community hospital into a […]
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Boxborough board seeks FBI investigation
The Boxborough Select Board did something earlier this week you don’t see happen very often. It voted 3-2 to have the acting town manager ask the FBI’s public corruption unit […]
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Boxborough board seeks FBI investigation
THE BOXBOROUGH Select Board did something earlier this week you don’t see happen very often. It voted 3-2 to have the acting town manager ask the FBI’s public corruption unit […]
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Wu says local-option tax could help fund fare-free MBTA service
WHEN IT COMES to fare-free MBTA service, is Michelle Wu willing to put her money – or that of Boston residents – where her mouth is? The frontrunner in the […]
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Add paper to the list of things in short supply
BEFORE BOSTON’S preliminary mayoral election, the city sent information about mail-in voting to every voter. For a time, the city considered doing a second mailing, but Secretary of the Commonwealth […]
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New work week: Tuesday through Thursday
A NEW DASHBOARD showing average travel times on roadways coming into and out of Boston indicates more people working hybrid schedules are driving in the middle part of the week […]
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Does Wu have a Teflon coating?
Michelle Wu has made it clear she’s no Charlie Baker fan, telling the Boston Globe her ambitious agenda for Boston would be easier to achieve with a Democrat in the […]
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Does Wu have a Teflon coating?
MICHELLE WU has made it clear she’s no Charlie Baker fan, telling the Boston Globe her ambitious agenda for Boston would be easier to achieve with a Democrat in the […]
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Senate adds 6th majority-minority district in Brockton
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE AFTER SOLICITING feedback over the past week on draft redistricting maps for the Legislature, House and Senate leaders on Tuesday finalized revised plans that would add […]
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Fare-free Worcester buses called bright spot in transit recovery
THE BUS SYSTEM in Worcester, which went fare free in March 2020, has built back its ridership during COVID faster than any other transit system in Massachusetts, according to a […]
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2 more Mission Hill teachers placed on leave
BOSTON PUBLIC School Superintendent Brenda Cassellius has placed two more teachers from the Mission Hill K-8 Pilot School in Jamaica Plain on paid administrative leave and launched a second investigation […]
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Honoring MLK by turning out at the polls
AS WE LOOK toward next month’s municipal election in Boston, we must mobilize and get out the vote. Reflecting on the past, we remember that on May 17, 1957, Martin […]
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It’s time to reimagine MCAS
SHOULD WE, or should we not, eliminate the MCAS test? It’s a question as old as the test itself. The debate has been raging for decades, and is coming to […]
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Wu’s fare-free T: Fanciful notion or strategic thinking?
BEACON HILL LEADERS are showing little interest in one of Boston mayoral candidate Michelle Wu’s campaign priorities – making the MBTA fare free. At a State House press conference on […]
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Wu’s fare-free T: Fanciful notion or strategic thinking?
BEACON HILL LEADERS are showing little interest in one of Boston mayoral candidate Michelle Wu’s campaign priorities – making the MBTA fare free. At a State House press conference on […]
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Electric vehicle rebate needs to increase, expand
FROM THE GRIDLOCK of the Southeast Expressway to Logan Airport and the Cape Cod bridges, traffic congestion is so commonplace in Massachusetts that it’s easy to forget transportation is also […]
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1,571 state workers not complying with vaccine mandate
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER’S vaccine mandate for executive branch employees went into effect Sunday, and more than 1,500 state workers remain out of compliance. But state government did not experience mass terminations on Monday. Instead, it […]