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Jun 10 2022
News
Near $5 A Gallon Gas Prices Forced This Gas Station To Stop Sales In Protest
Gas prices have gotten so high that one gas station in Massachusetts has stopped selling fuel in protest of the record-high prices.
Reynold Gladu, the owner of Ren's Mobil in Amherst, Massachusetts, told Western Mass News, “It’s hard enough for people to put groceries on their table after working in the factory or wherever they work for 30-40 hours a week and not be able to put gas in
International Business TimesNov 29 2022
News
Biden’s Secret Service rental vehicles burst into flames after he left Nantucket vacation
President Joe Biden's rented Secret Service vehicles burst into flames in a parking lot Monday, just one day after he left his Nantucket vacation.
Biden spent Thanksgiving on the ritzy Massachusetts island with his family last week. The Secret Service rented five vehicles from Hertz to carry the president and his family, and all five of them caught fire in the parking lot, according to
Fox News DigitalApr 22 2022
Opinion
There’s No Such Thing as a Value-Neutral Education
The public schools are meant to serve — whom?
Writing in the New York Times, Frank Bruni thinks he has an answer: “all of us.”
“The schools . . . exist for all of us,” Bruni writes, “to reflect and inculcate democratic values and ecumenical virtues that have nothing to do with any one parent’s ideology, religion or lack thereof.”
This is naïve and ahistorical.
The
Kevin D. WilliamsonJun 20 2023
Perspectives Blog
When the 2028 Campaign Gets a Very Early Start
From the CenterFor those who are less than excited by the upcoming eighteen months of uninterrupted discussion of Joe Biden’s age and Donald Trump’s court calendar, it may or may not be helpful to know that the 2028 presidential campaign is already underway. But what the two most prominent combatants in the extremely early stages of the next election cycle lack in timeliness and patience,
Dan SchnurOct 12 2022
News
Treasury Department inspector general to audit DeSantis migrant flight spending
The Treasury Department inspector general confirmed in a letter to Democratic lawmakers that the agency is planning to audit whether spending by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on migrant flights was improper.
The lawmakers asked the Treasury Department to look into whether Florida improperly used American Rescue Plan funds for the migrant flights to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, which
Fox News DigitalSep 15 2022
Opinion
DeSantis was right to send migrants to Martha's Vineyard. We need to bring border crisis to Democrats
What should happen when the policies set by one set of people affect an entirely different set?
On Thursday night, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sent two planes of illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.
Taryn Fenske, the governor’s communications director, told Fox News, "Yes, Florida can confirm the two planes with illegal immigrants that arrived in Martha’s
Karol MarkowiczFeb 17 2023
News
Could California be the latest state to restore voting rights to felons?
Before having his sentence commuted by Governor Gavin Newsom last year, Thanh Tran served ten and a half years in prisons and jails across California, a time he described as the “most traumatizing and dehumanizing experience of my life”.
Had he been able to vote during that time, he said he would have maintained some hope that his community still cared about him.
“The focus of
The GuardianJan 05 2023
News
From increases in minimum wage to recreational marijuana, these new laws take effect in 2023
As President Joe Biden scored several legislative wins last year, voters across the country headed to the polls in November to decide on local measures.
The passage of several of those measures will lead to new state laws this year. And Americans in 2023 will also feel the impact of several provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act that was enacted over the summer.
Here are some
CNN DigitalSep 29 2022
News
New Alzheimer’s drug slows disease in major clinical trial: ‘Blockbuster potential’
A new drug can slow the insidious impact of Alzheimer’s disease, a major clinical trial has found.
Patients taking the drug, known as lecanemab, showed a 27% decrease in cognitive decline compared to a control group, according to developers Biogen, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Eisai, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
“Starting as early as six months, across all time points
New York Post (News)Dec 20 2022
Analysis
The science events to watch for in 2023
Next-generation vaccines
Following the successful deployment of mRNA vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic, a host of them are in development. BioNTech in Mainz, Germany, is expected to initiate first-in-human trials for mRNA vaccines against malaria, tuberculosis and genital herpes in the coming weeks. BioNTech is also collaborating with Pfizer, based in New York City, to trial an mRNA
Nature.com