A LONG-TIME HEALTH CARE administrator working at North Shore Community College is over 60, putting her in a vulnerable category for COVID-19. But as of last week, she was still […]
State hits some snags in working from home
Posted inHealth Care
How vets died of COVID-19 and no one knew
IT TOOK EIGHT VETERANS’ DEATHS and five days before the head of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home informed state and local public health authorities about the extent of the COVID-19 outbreak […]
Posted inEducation, Health Care, State House News Service
Virus notes: Franklin emerges as hotspot
NEW NUMBERS RELEASED on Tuesday show just how quickly the coronavirus situation can change, as confirmed cases continued a steady rise, deaths jumped dramatically, and two of the state’s smallest […]
Posted inEconomy
Con sólo pistas ayudan a los hispanohablantes a llenar el formulario de seguro de desempleo
UN GRUPO EN NORTHAMPTON está ayudando a los hispanohablantes a llenar el formulario de seguro de desempleo estatal con una herramienta en lÃnea que los guÃa paso a paso. El […]
Posted inHealth Care
Baker extends state shutdown until May 4
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER on Tuesday urged Massachusetts residents to continue all existing social distancing measures and ordered all non-essential businesses to keep their offices and factories closed until May 4. […]
Posted inEconomy
40 percent of Mass. residents expecting financial hardships
OVER THE COURSE of just a few weeks in March, the markets set records for crashes, unemployment claims shattered records for increases, and economic activity the world over slowed to […]
Posted inPolitics
Markey ‘wins’ state Dem convention
A correction has been added to this story clarifying that Ed Markey and Joe Kennedy III agreed that Markey would have won the convention and Kennedy would have won the […]
Posted inThe Download
Markey ‘wins’ state Dem convention
Ed Markey is going to win the state Democratic Party’s nomination for US Senate without even having to go to the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell and give a speech. […]
Posted inEconomy
State revenue shortfall could reach $3 billion
MASSACHUSETTS IS FACING a revenue shortfall of up to $3 billion over the next 15 months, according to a new analysis by the Center for State Policy Analysis. Of that, […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
SJC rules against district court judge in indigent defense case
THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT ruled that a Springfield judge overstepped his authority in ordering the overburdened local public defenders’ office to take on more cases than the office said it […]
Posted inHealth Care
Berkshire County a COVID-19 hotspot
DEATHS FROM COVID-19 are occurring in Berkshire County at a much higher rate than other counties in Massachusetts and most communities around the country. Berkshire County in the western part […]
Posted inHealth Care
11 die at Holyoke Soldiers’ Home amid COVID-19 outbreak
BENNETT WALSH, the superintendent of the state-run Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, was placed on paid administrative leave on Monday, after 11 residents died at the home amid an outbreak of COVID-19. […]
Posted inTransportation
T ridership keeps falling as staff infections rise
MBTA GENERAL MANAGER Steve Poftak disclosed on Monday that 18 employees, including 10 bus drivers, have tested positive for COVID-19. The other employees who tested positive include one subway and […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
Judge asks for list of ICE detainees for potential release
AÂ FEDERAL JUDGE stopped short of ordering the release of federal immigration detainees being held in the Bristol County House of Correction, but he urged officials not to send new […]
Posted inHealth Care
The surge is coming
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER said on Monday that the long expected surge in COVID-19 cases is expected to arrive in Massachusetts sometime between April 7 and April 17, and he used […]
Posted inThe Codcast
Keeping the faith in coronavirus era
WHILE HEROIC HEALTH CARE PROVIDERSÂ are on the front lines, putting themselves at risk as they care for patients being ravaged by the novel coronavirus, faith leaders and their congregations are […]
Posted inArts and Culture
Keeping the faith in the coronavirus era
WHILE HEROIC HEALTH CARE PROVIDERSÂ are on the front lines, putting themselves at risk as they care for patients being ravaged by the novel coronavirus, faith leaders and their congregations are […]
Posted inThe Download
Keeping the faith in coronavirus era
While heroic health care providers are on the front lines, putting themselves at risk as they care for patients being ravaged by the novel coronavirus, faith leaders and their congregations […]
Posted inThe Download
Keeping the faith in coronavirus era
While heroic health care providers are on the front lines, putting themselves at risk as they care for patients being ravaged by the novel coronavirus, faith leaders and their congregations […]
Posted inOpinion
For those in jail, COVID-19 could be death sentence
LEGAL GROUPS, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, have made an urgent plea to the state’s highest court. “There are about 16,500 human beings in our prisons and […]
Posted inHealth Care
Virus notes: Mass. among top states on testing
MASSACHUSETTS IS MOVING into the very top tier of states doing testing for COVID-19. As of Sunday evening, the state had conducted 39,066 tests, placing it fifth among the states […]
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Holyoke’s Alex Morse adapts to the curveballs
First in a series about mayors across Massachusetts and how they’re contending with the COVID-19 pandemic. DON’T ASK HOLYOKE MAYOR Alex Morse about his typical day right now – there […]
Posted inState House News Service, Uncategorized
Baker’s executive orders and directives
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE SINCE GOV. CHARLIE BAKER declared a coronavirus state of emergency on March 10, the executive branch has been busy spelling out in orders, advisories and guidance […]
Posted inOpinion
Putting our ‘war’ in perspective
SELF-CONFINED TO QUARTERS like so much of the nation, I’m sorting through some memorabilia, most notably – for the second time this year — my mother’s war time journal – […]