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Apr 17 2013
News
Do These Pictures Show the Second Bomb Before Explosion and a Suspicious Man?
A local Boston news station took to the air on Tuesday with a set of pictures that it says could have clues about the second bomb to go off at the Boston Marathon -- pictures it says the FBI is looking at.
The BlazeMar 19 2020
News
China investigating ex-Biogen employee who fled there while sick with coronavirus
A statistician who was working in Massachusetts for Biogen Inc.,the sponsor of the now infamous Boston meeting at the epicenter of the state’s COVID-19 outbreak, is being investigated in Beijing for allegedly flying to her native China while sick, not disclosing her exposure to coronavirus to the airline, and covering up her fever with drugs, according to reports in Chinese-based media.
The Boston GlobeNov 05 2021
News
Labor Secretary Insists OSHA COVID-19 Vaccine Rule Is Not a Mandate
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, during a media blitz on Thursday, said that the new Biden administration rule that requires private employees to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or get tested for COVID-19 on a regular basis is not a mandate.
“This isn’t a mandate—this is a vaccine or testing,” Walsh, a former mayor of Boston, said during an appearance on MSNBC.
“What we want to do
The Epoch TimesApr 17 2021
Analysis
Stocks are at all-time highs and the U.S. economy is booming. So why is everyone so freaked out?
Peter Andersen, a Boston-based money manager, started 2021 feeling upbeat.
“I think this is going to be one of the historic recoveries, up there with the end of major wars,” he told MarketWatch around the turn of the year. “There’s enormous demand from consumers. Can you imagine when we get the all-clear and start moving back toward normalcy?”
But three months into the year,
MarketWatchAug 12 2020
Background
The Racist History of Abortion and Midwifery Bans
In 1851, Sojourner Truth delivered a speech best known as“Ain’t I A Woman?” to a crowded audience at the Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio. At the time, slavery remained in full force, a vibrant enterprise that fueled the American economy. Various laws protected that system, including the Fugitive Slave Act, which resulted in the abduction of “free” Black children, women, and men as well as
ACLUFeb 26 2021
Analysis
Journalists don’t always cover anti-racism protests as fairly as they think they do
Amid the so-called racial reckoning following the murder of George Floyd and the resulting wave of racial justice protests in 2020, newsrooms across the country began to consider their role in perpetuating racial inequities. In December, The Kansas City Star apologized for its racist coverage of the Black community, which robbed Black Kansas Citians of “opportunity, dignity, justice and
Nieman LabNov 29 2017
Opinion
OPINION: Trump's "Pocahontas" comment wasn't a racial slur
I was a Boston radio talk host in 2012 when the Elizabeth Warren/Native American heritage story broke, and I had the perfect nickname for her:
"Faux-cahontas."
Guest Writer - RightJan 18 2024
Headline Roundup
New Hampshire Polls Paint Trump as Leader, Haley in Second
New polls out of New Hampshire paint former President Donald Trump as the leader, with former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in second place.
Key Details: A Saint Anselm College poll shows that support for Nikki Haley has increased by 7% since the Iowa caucuses, and is now at 38%. Donald Trump is now at 52%, with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at 6%. A Suffolk University/NBC10 Boston/Boston
New York Post (News) The Guardian The HillDec 29 2020
News
Controversial monument depicting Lincoln standing over a freed slave removed from the Back Bay
A controversial statue depicting Abraham Lincoln standing over a half-dressed, formerly enslaved man has been removed from its longtime location in Boston’s Back Bay, months after the city’s Art Commission voted to take it down amid a nationwide reckoning on racial justice.
On Tuesday morning, workers took the statue, “Emancipation Group,” from its perch in Park Square across the street
The Boston GlobeAug 12 2021
Analysis
How The Pandemic Now Ends
Cases of COVID-19 are rising fast. Vaccine uptake has plateaued. The pandemic will be over one day—but the way there is different now.
In september 2020, just before COVID-19 began its wintry surge through the United States, I wrote that the country was trapped in a pandemic spiral, seemingly destined to repeat the same mistakes. But after vaccines arrived in midwinter, cases in the U.S
The Atlantic