If you feel like you’ve tempting fate every time you drive around the streets of Lowell, you’re not alone. Massachusetts Department of Transportation data support that unsettling contention. A new study based on information collected from MassDOT puts Lowell in a tie with the seaside town of Salisbury for the sixth most dangerous intersections in […]
Opinion
Editorial: It’s time to mend community hospitals’ insurer payment deficit
While a struggling for-profit health-care system might not elicit the kind of sympathy reserved for its not-for-profit counterparts, its take on the uneven field of the state’s medical insurance reimbursement landscape deserves everyone’s attention. Steward Health Care’s dire finances and suspected slew of unpaid bills have spilled into the public domain recently. However, hospital system […]
