Sen. Sal DiDomenico and his colleagues in the Massachusetts State Senate convened for the first-ever remote session in the history of the body to pass legislation to allow short-term borrowing to meet the Commonwealth’s financial obligations. “My colleagues in the…
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DiDomenico, Senate Pass Bill to Collect Vital Public Health Data
Sen. Sal DiDomenico announced that the state Senate has passed bipartisan legislation to promote equity and transparency as the Commonwealth continues to confront the COVID-19 pandemic. The bill, An Act Addressing COVID-19 Data Collection and Disparities in Treatment, would increase the…
Massachusetts Weekly Unemployment Claimant Data
From May 3 to May 9, Massachusetts had 44,274 individuals file an initial claim for standard Unemployment Insurance (UI), a decrease of 10,949 over the previous week, and the sixth consecutive week of fewer initial claims filing over the previous…
Construction Update
Route 1 Traffic Impacts • Route 1 Northbound: Approaching the Tobin Bridge from Boston, the work zone begins in the left lane. 2 of 3 travel lanes will be open during daytime hours (5 a.m.–10 p.m. • Route 1 Southbound:…
Police Briefs 05-21-2020
By Seth Daniel and Paul Koolloian Trouble in the Food Lines On May 12, at 3:02 p.m., officers were dispatched to the area of 163 Chestnut St., near St. Stanislaus Rectory for a report of an intoxicated male causing a…
Memorial Day, 2020
This will be a Memorial Day unlike any that Americans have known. Ever since the official inception of the holiday on May 30, 1868, when the practice of decorating the graves of the fallen Union soldiers with flowers, wreaths, and…
Guest Op-Ed: Baker’s Reopening Plans for the State: Calling on State Officials to Place Vulnerable Communities at the Forefront of the Commonwealth’s Reopening Framework
I applaud the State Administration for stepping up and meeting the needs of our most vulnerable in Chelsea, Charlestown, and the rest of our impacted communities in Massachusetts. At a time when we need collaboration and transparency between local and…
Guest Op-Ed: Drawing a Line in the Sand to Keep Our Beaches Safe and Open
By Bruce Berman The late US District Court Judge A. David Mazzone, who oversaw the Boston Harbor case for nearly 20 years, often said that he measured the success of the Boston Harbor cleanup not by the “number of feet”…
Obituaries 05-21-2020
Howard Joseph Jones US Navy Submarine Service Retiree Howard Joseph Jones, better known as “Murph” to family and friends, died on April 22 as a result of contracting COVID-19 (coronavirus). He was a resident of the Chelsea Soldiers’ Home. Murph…