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State Wire: Public Supports Changes To High-Stakes Testing For Mass Students
"The score ... is simply a measure of who is a good test taker."
State Wire: White Supremacist Gatherings, Incidents Hit All-Time High In New England
"If your community instead comes out and said, 'we are with you, we see you', that's a really powerful message."
State Wire: Protests, Construction Continue at East Boston Substation
"It has never been about our community. It has never been about what we need or want."
BU’s John Silber Did Not Support Free Speech on His Campus
And I know that because his Boston University administration expelled me for participating in nonviolent student anti-apartheid protests in 1986
Recently, CommonWealth Magazine published an opinion piece by Rachel Silber Devlin, the daughter of former Boston University Chancellor John Silber, who published a book about her father last year and is giving a talk about him at BU today.
Her article paints a picture ...
State Wire: Efforts Underway To Formalize COVID-19 Remembrance Day In Mass
"We can't prevent what we're unwilling to acknowledge."
State Wire: Bills Aim To Restore Vote For People Incarcerated For Felony Convictions
"We need a criminal legal system that is grounded in rehabilitation."
The Extent Of The Commonwealth’s War On Flavored Tobacco
State report highlights seizures in booming illicit market, quantifies revenue loss
State Wire: New England Coordinates Regional Response To Climate Change
"We're seeing changes in the frequency, in the destructiveness, even in where disasters are occurring."
As Prices Soar, Fossil Fuel Industry Looks After Its Interests On Beacon Hill
A Massachusetts fossil fuel lobbying review
As gas prices and heating costs skyrocket across Massachusetts, fossil fuel producers and providers are spending hundreds of thousands to promote their political agendas to state officials and lawmakers.
The state’s five for-profit utilities, which function as regulated ...