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SENATOR ED MARKEY SPEAKS OUT ON RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted February 28, 2022 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Markey responded to the recent invasion

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Ed Markey, invasion, Politics, Russia, Ukraine

OFFICIALS, ADVOCATES SPEAK ON IMMIGRATION REFORM AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted February 20, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

At a virtual summit, leaders sought to educate and engage on the need for change.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Ayanna Pressley, economic recovery, Ed Markey, immigration, reform

STATE WIRE: PEACE ADVOCATES PRESENT HOPES FOR FUTURE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS POLICY

Written by LILY BOHLKE Posted January 25, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

"The pandemic exposed the fissures of poverty, racism and how bad our public-health systems really are."

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Ed Markey, international, nuclear weapons

HOTEL WORKERS SHARE STORIES WITH ED MARKEY

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted November 25, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Unfairly fired employees ask for “Right to Recall” measures.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Ed Markey, hotel workers, Local 26, Marriott Copley

INTERVIEW: CALLA WALSH, 16-YEAR-OLD POLITICAL ORGANIZER

Written by JORDAN FRIAS Posted October 27, 2020 Filed Under: Interviews, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“We didn’t reinvent Ed Markey, we told the truth about his record.”

Filed Under: Interviews, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Calla Walsh, Ed Markey, Jordan Meehan, michelle wu, political organizing

CLIMATE CHANGE IS INTERSECTIONAL. THAT’S WHY BOSTONIANS NEED TO MOBILIZE AND VOTE

Written by REV. VERNON K. WALKER Posted October 20, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

We are in the eighth month of COVID-19, but we have seen environmental racism harm our most vulnerable communities for years.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: Climate Change, Ed Markey, environmental racism, federal government

KENNEDY IS YOUNGER THAN MARKEY. WHAT ELSE?

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted February 25, 2020 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS

The first debate, for me, didn’t demonstrate a compelling reason to replace Markey—to swap an older straight white male for a younger one.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, Debate, Ed Markey, JKIII, Joe Kennedy, Politics, senate, Senate Race, WGBH

CAMBRIDGE, SOMERVILLE RESIDENTS TALK ENVIRONMENT AT MARKEY TOWN HALL

Written by KARINE VANN Posted February 17, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“What we did in this resolution is to lay out what should happen … in every sector of the American economy. Because they can all be transformed with new technologies, with new strategies, new conservation techniques, and in a very brief period of time.”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: AOC, Cambridge, Ed Markey, Environment, Green New Deal, Politics, recycling, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, SOMERVILLE, sustainability, sustainable

CONSULTANTS TOLD STATE POLICE HOW TO AVOID TURMOIL. THE DEPARTMENT IGNORED THE ADVICE AND SPENT THE FOLLOWING DECADES SPIRALING TOWARD CORRUPTION.

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted October 10, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

From several dozen troopers facing criminal charges in an expansive payroll fiasco, to drunk-driving drill instructors and other one-offs, the follies continue.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: #mapoli, AMMO, attorney general, Axon, Beacon Hill, Boston Globe, BPD, Camfour, Charlie Baker, Coakley, CommBuys, Commonwealth, contacts and contracts, criminal justice, Cultural Diagnostic of the Massachusetts State Police, Dana Pullman, Deval Patrick, Ed Markey, Emerson, emerson college, Engagement Lab, Environmental Police, feature, features, Fire Sale, firearms, GOAL, gun control, gun dealers, gun laws, gun licenses, guns, Healey, history, Journalism, Jurek Brothers, karyn polito, licenses, licensing, Linder & Associates, Maine, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Mass, Mass Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, Mass State Police, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Tasers, massacres, MDC Police, Michael Dukakis, MSP, MuckRock, National Rifle Association, Newtown, NRA, OCPF, ONA, Online News Association, OSD, Parkland, Paul Cellucci, pistols, Police, police militarization, reporting, reports, Republicans, Robert DeLeo, school shootings, Smith & Wesson, SPAM, state police, statistics, straw purchasing, stun guns, Taser, Tasers, Team Reporting Tagged With: AG, Virginia

REVISITING ‘PILGRIMS’: THE CLEANUP ON CAPE COD

Written by Posted August 30, 2019 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

To understand the current controversy over the decommissioning of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant, you have to understand its past

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Cape Cod, Cape Downwinders, Congress, Ed Markey, Elizabeth Warren, Entergy, Holtec, Miriam Wasser, no nukes, NRC, nuclear, nuclear reactor, pilgrims, Plymouth, radiation

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