GOV. CHARLIE BAKER slightly loosened capacity restrictions at restaurants, retailers, and gyms on Thursday as the state’s weekly COVID-19 numbers continued to retreat from the highs of recent weeks. Vaccinations […]
Baker loosens capacity restrictions
Posted inHealth Care
Nursing homes may be turning the corner on COVID
NURSING HOMES have accounted for the bulk of deaths from COVID-19 in Massachusetts since last April, but that may be starting to change. Long-term care facilities, which cater to older […]
Posted inPolitics
Smooth sailing for Walsh in confirmation hearing
BOSTON MAYOR MARTY WALSH, a former union leader who said organized labor provided his immigrant parents a pathway into the American middle class, seemed well on his way to becoming […]
Posted inOpinion
There are many Amanda Gormans out there
RIGHT NOW, poetry has our attention. On January 20, Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in US history, performed her breathtaking poem The Hill We Climb in front of 40 […]
Posted inDrug Addiction
Mass. to get $13.2m from McKinsey opioid settlement
MASSACHUSETTS WILL get $13.2 million from a national settlement with consultant McKinsey & Company over the company’s role working for opioid companies. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, who has been […]
Posted inThe Download
Medical parole not always compassionate
Ten months after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ordered the Department of Correction to provide daily reports to shed light on the COVID-19 situation inside its facilities, questions are surfacing […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
Medical parole not always compassionate
TEN MONTHS after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ordered the Department of Correction to provide daily reports to shed light on the COVID-19 situation inside its facilities, questions are surfacing […]
Posted inOpinion
Marty Walsh has work to do in DC
WASHINGTON HAS BEEN rid of Donald Trump for two weeks, but much of the damage he has done to our country and the pain he has inflicted on Americans will […]
Posted inOpinion
Baker take note: Net zero buildings make sense
THERE HAS BEEN a lot of misinformation flying around regarding Gov. Baker’s veto of groundbreaking climate legislation this month, but nothing has been more egregious than claims that provisions related […]
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State tax collections continue to surprise
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE JANUARY TAX COLLECTIONS obliterated the Baker administration’s expectations, coming in almost a half-billion dollars above the Department of Revenue’s already-upgraded monthly benchmark and helping to brighten […]
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Reggie Lewis Center to have neighborhood days
RESPONDING TO CONCERNS about the low number of people of color getting inoculated for COVID-19, Gov. Charlie Baker on Wednesday said his administration is trying to get vaccines in the […]
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Uncertainty continues to plague school reopening debate
ONE OF THE most disturbing of the shockingly wide range of symptoms experienced by people with COVID-19 is often described as “brain fog,” a lingering inability to think clearly that […]
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Uncertainty continues to plague school reopening debate
ONE OF THE most disturbing of the shockingly wide range of symptoms experienced by people with COVID-19 is often described as “brain fog,” a lingering inability to think clearly that […]
Posted inState House News Service
State pension fund gains $10b in 2020
FOLLOWING MARKET volatility and uncertainty at play through much of the first half of 2020, a strong second-half performance for the Massachusetts state pension fund — the largest six-month return […]
Posted inHealth Care
In vaccine rollout, cities find themselves on the front line
IN ALL THE finger-pointing over the state’s shaky COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the criticism may have been aimed at Charlie Baker, but in Revere, the phone calls went to Brian Arrigo. […]
Posted inOpinion
Shecession means the jig is up
WOMEN ENDED 2020 with 5.4 million fewer jobs than they had in February 2020, prior to the start of the pandemic. December unemployment figures showed that employers cut 140,000 jobs in December […]
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State drags its feet on nursing home Medicaid terminations
ON AUGUST 3, the Baker administration sent letters to three nursing homes informing them that a series of care violations had precipitated their ouster from the state’s Medicaid program, the […]
Posted inThe Download
Needham police report exonerates officers of racial bias
MORE THAN A year after a black man was handcuffed by four police officers near a CVS store in Needham on suspicion of shoplifting, the police department is finally getting […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
Needham police report exonerates officers of racial bias
MORE THAN A year after a black man was handcuffed by four police officers near a CVS store in Needham on suspicion of shoplifting, the police department is finally getting […]
Posted inEducation
Poll: Students unhappy with remote and hybrid learning
A NEW POLL released Tuesday confirmed what many students have been saying all along: High school students far prefer to be learning in person than to be in a remote […]
Posted inEducation
Teachers should get vaccine priority among essential workers
THIS CURRENT SCHOOL YEAR has been challenging for all involved. As educators, we have had to adjust and rapidly shift from managing classrooms to ensuring that our families are secure and […]
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Glitch resolved for immigrants seeking unemployment insurance
THE STATE’S Department of Unemployment Assistance has cleared up a paperwork Catch-22 for immigrants with temporary protected status that was preventing them from receiving or extending their unemployment benefits. Temporary protected […]
Posted inThe Codcast
Paul Biddinger, head of state vaccine advisory group
Dr. Paul Biddinger, who specializes in emergency preparedness at Massachusetts General Hospital and heads the governor’s COVID-19 vaccination advisory board, says a third of those eligible to be inoculated in […]
Posted inThe Codcast
Biddinger analyzes vaccine rollout challenges
Dr. Paul Biddinger, who specializes in emergency preparedness at Massachusetts General Hospital and heads the governor’s COVID-19 vaccination advisory board, says a third of those eligible to be inoculated in […]