THE COST OF treating her Type 1 diabetes for 15 years has taken a toll on Claire Clendenen’s life. Clendenen, who works in public health in Boston, just recently paid $700 for a three-month supply of insulin. “Carrying around this huge fee on your shoulders, the cost, the accessibility, the constant fights with insurance companies, […]
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Senate must not back down on police reform bill
THE POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY and racial justice legislation being debated by the state Senate has been held up over several days by a few, with loud voices, who feel that it goes too far in upsetting the status quo. I would argue, however, that the status quo has the potential to usher in further loss […]
Special elections ready-made for insiders
THE CANDIDATES ARE off and running in the short sprint to the April 3 special election primary to fill the state Senate seat vacated in late January by Linda Forry. The race is sure to generate some excitement for political junkies, but it could also be seen as grounds for some unease and misgivings about […]
Last-minute mailer hits Rizzo in Senate race
MUCH HAS BEEN made of how the seven-way field in Tuesday’s special election Democratic primary for the East Boston-based state Senate seat breaks with tradition in several ways. It features two minority women candidates, no lifelong Eastie resident – the usual profile of the seat holder — and a competitive candidate from Beacon Hill. But […]
Not the usual faces in state Senate race
FOR DECADES, AN East Boston resident has held the state Senate seat representing the First Suffolk and Middlesex District, which extends north from the neighborhood to Revere and reaches west to sections of Cambridge. Michael LoPresti in the 1970s and 80s. Robert Travaglini in the 1990s and early 2000s. Anthony Petruccelli from 2007 until he […]