Decisions about a possible professional soccer stadium along the Mystic River are being driven entirely by the City of Everett, though plenty of people in adjacent communities live closer to the site than some Everett residents. Does that make any sense?
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A travesty in Manchester by the Sea
The battle brewing at Shingle Place Hill in Manchester by the Sea is a paradigm for what affects cities and towns across the Commonwealth.
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Ending MCAS requirement would be a step backward
IN RECENT YEARS, many Massachusetts public education policy decisions have been made with an eye toward increasing equity. It’s a worthy goal, but too many of the policies have proven to diminish both equity and academic excellence. One aspect of the Commonwealth’s public K-12 education system that has promoted both equity and excellence is the MCAS […]
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Lead exposure may have played role in Maine shootings
Symptoms of acute lead exposure run the gamut of cognitive problems; exposures have been linked to feeling confused, more prone to anger and hostility, and issues with thinking straight.
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Searching for college funding with a simple click
The system’s opaqueness presents obstacles, particularly for low-income students who can be unaware of the significant financial aid available to them. Other states and even regions within Massachusetts have successfully implemented technological solutions to offer students a transparent and user-friendly portal to access this critical information. It’s time for our state to follow suit.
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Legislation needed to address teacher diversity
Despite our best efforts, the gap between the percentage of educators of color and students of color is expected to continue to widen in the coming years.
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Let’s use Steward crisis to reimagine health care in the Merrimack Valley
We believe that a regional system of care led by Lawrence General Hospital, the community’s own anchor institution, would reduce waste. It would also provide new opportunities to focus on significant unmet needs.
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Both sides overselling MBTA Communities Act
Its real impact will be far less than the rhetoric from both sides of the debate. Proponents tout it as a transformative effort to tackle racial segregation and build affordable housing in our region’s most exclusionary suburbs. There is truth in these claims. But now that we’re shifting to implementation, I worry that overstating the law’s magnitude has contributed to the blowback.
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Why we need more Parole Board members
The Massachusetts Parole Board, already stretched beyond its capacity to handle cases in a timely fashion, will soon have more because of a recent landmark Supreme Judicial Court ruling.
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WBUR, once flush, is warning of tight times ahead
We’ve seen a dramatic loss of sponsorship support. In the digital age, almost all that money now goes to the big platforms — like Facebook, Google, Amazon and Spotify. This is bad news for the news business and has created big gaps that can’t easily be filled. In the last five years, our annual on-air sponsorship income (underwriting) has dropped by more than 40 percent — nearly $7 million.