Weeks after WBUR’s leader warned of possible job cuts, Boston’s NPR station has announced that it’s offering buyouts before the station likely resorts to layoffs.
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Massachusetts bridges ‘up to date’ with inspections, Maura Healey says after Baltimore bridge collapse
After a cargo ship crashed into and knocked over a major bridge in Baltimore, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said bridges across the Bay State are regularly inspected and “up to date.”
Preparing kids to ‘engage and lead’
FITCHBURG — An 8th grade Civics teacher and her former student were recently invited to the State House to participate in a legislative briefing on civic education, where a panel discussed why getting students involved in government is so crucial – especially now. “Civics is more important than ever in today’s world,” Fitchburg Civics Teacher […]
Rachael Rollins suspended from practicing law in Massachusetts
Disgraced former U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins has been suspended from practicing law in Massachusetts.
Why are more young adults getting colorectal cancer? Mass General researcher is trying to find out
As a rising number of young adults get colorectal cancer before they turn 50, a Mass General researcher is trying to find out what’s behind the alarming jump in this early-onset cancer.
New Senate portrait puts Abigail Adams ‘where she belongs’
BOSTON — As she unveiled a portrait of early women’s rights advocate Abigail Adams on Friday, Senate President Karen Spilka announced an open call to the people of Massachusetts to nominate the next woman who will be permanently memorialized in the Senate. Spilka and Catherine Allgor, president of the Massachusetts Historical Society, unveiled Adams’ portrait […]