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SINCE MASK DONATION, KRAFTS HAVE SOLD MORE THAN $7M OF PPE TO MA
The Krafts spent $2 million on the masks, and have sold $7.2 million worth of face shields to the state.
C’EST EVALI: HOW DID MASS GET A FLAVORED VAPE AND MENTHOL BAN ANYWAY?
"It basically just banned everything with the word ‘vape’ in it and didn’t consider the consequences."
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SAFETY NET. IT’S A SIEVE INSTEAD.
How could this happen? We are the wealthiest country in the world by far, and our unemployment system was supposed to be able to weather an economic crisis.
THE COST OF PRISON VIDEO VISITATION: ANOTHER HARDSHIP FOR FAMILIES
As lawmakers consider free phone calls, expensive video calls come to Mass prisons
“IT’S JUST NOT WORKING”: FOR SOME SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS, IN-PERSON IS ESSENTIAL
“I feel like as parents we are not being heard enough when it comes to our special needs kids.”
BETRAYAL: FRUSTRATED, SOME INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS DISTANCE FROM THE US
"We’re being used as political tools. That’s the most heartbreaking part of everything."
GRAND IRONY OPERA: POLICE REFORM, FROM CITY HALL TO TRUMP MAJAL
They “don’t trust either Trump or Biden with these powers, and believe they should stay lapsed whoever is in office."
THE HOPSCOTCH PLAN: BPS EDUCATORS BRACE FOR CHALLENGING SCHOOL YEAR
"The current timeline does not make us feel confident that everything that needs to be in place will be in place, for in-person learning."
CALL YOUR MA STATE SENATOR TODAY TO HELP SAVE LOCAL NEWS!
[W]e’re asking all journalists, journalism educators, journalism students, media reform activists, and DigBoston readers who agree that the state journalism commission should be created to call your Mass state senator today and ask him/her to tell Sens. Eric Lesser (D - Longmeadow), Michael Rodrigues (D - Somerset), and Patrick O'Connor (D - Weymouth), who are on the conference committee, to keep the journalism commission in the final economic development bill.