Natural psychedelics provide a promising, necessary, and research-backed opportunity for healing where traditional therapies have fallen short.
Jamie Eldridge
Posted inEnergy, Environment, Opinion
Polluters should fund measures to combat climate change
AUGUST MARKED THE first anniversary of the federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the largest investment in clean energy in our nation’s history. Still, climate doomsday stories and hostile weather tragedies drive the news coverage and are irresistible clickbait. Sadly, they lead the public to believe we are on a sinking boat without life preservers. Despite […]
Posted inEducation
It’s time to make debt-free higher ed a reality
IN A RECENT CommonWealth commentary piece, Christopher Geary laid out the many complications and carve-outs created by many of the “debt-free” public higher education plans across the nation. For years, we have been advocating for a first-dollar, truly debt-free public higher education system in Massachusetts. This legislative session, we have re-filed “An Act relative to […]
Posted inOpinion
Moderna should do its part, share its vaccine
THROUGH MOST of 2020, most of us had never heard of Moderna, a small start-up pharmaceutical company based in Cambridge. The company had brought no product to market and had lost $241 million during the first half of the year. But, in January 2020, scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were already at […]
Posted inOpinion
Mass. should build on fed antipoverty programs
MASSACHUSETTS IS ONE of the richest states in the country, yet has a poverty rate higher than 24 other states, according to data released from the US Census Bureau. Over the past 13 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown how poverty can have disparate effects on public health, making it clear that the fight against […]
Posted inOpinion
Legislative fixes for essential worker problems
ESSENTIAL WORKERS have always played a significant role in our society, but their roles were especially amplified since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Elected officials, the public, and many business owners continue to praise the critical work these essential workers do. They had the difficult task of keeping our society afloat by being on […]
Posted inOpinion
Senate amendment reinforces a woman’s right to privacy
MASSACHUSETTS HAS the opportunity to continue its legacy of expanding freedom by the Legislature passing Senate budget amendment 180 to remove obstacles and expand abortion access. This amendment includes policies proposed by the ROE Act, and firmly establishes reproductive rights as part of the Commonwealth’s canon of liberties. Additionally, the amendment would improve healthcare for […]
Posted inOpinion
Baker not doing enough on environmental justice
ONE EVENING IN 2007, Chelsea, East Boston, Roxbury, and Dorchester residents packed Chelsea High School auditorium with signs that read “Clean Air is a Human Right” and “Got Asthma?” They assembled to fight back against a proposed diesel power plant, to be sited 250 feet from Chelsea’s only elementary school complex and on the banks […]
Posted inOpinion
Corporations need to pay their fair share
ALTHOUGH MASSACHUSETTS has entered the first phase of the Gov. Charlie Baker’s controversial reopening plan, the health and economic toll of COVID-19 is far from over. When it comes to state revenues, the picture is bleak — just when our communities need help the most, state revenues from sales, income, and corporate excise taxes are […]
Posted inOpinion
Mass. citizens point the way on climate change
WE LIVE IN a time when the way we power our lives is literally putting our survival at stake. We’re seeing an increase in deadly natural disasters, glaciers melting at a worrisome rate, and American states and territories at risk of disappearing from the map due to rising sea levels. Yet the Trump administration seems […]