Updated on January 28, 2021 at 12:37 pm
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Lawmakers, experts and residents continued to criticize Massachusetts vaccination rollout, Thursday, calling on the Baker administration to fix what they call a cumbersome and confusing sign-up process.
On Thursday, state Sen. Eric Lesser filed legislation that would direct the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to immediately create a one-stop online sign-up for vaccinations accessible from desktop computer as well as mobile devices; as well as a phone hotline immediately be established in multiple languages.
“The Phase 2 vaccine rollout is creating mass confusion and anxiety for our eligible senior population, Lesser said. The system is cumbersome, contradictory, and asks residents over 75 to navigate a haze of web links, locations, and instructions, each with different criteria and scheduling systems.
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Kristen Tillona-Baker, the new executive director of the Mary Lyon Foundation, in her office at Mohawk Trail Regional School in Buckland. Staff photo/MARY BYRNE
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BUCKLAND After seven years of commuting each week between South Deerfield and The Knox School on Long Island, Kristen Tillona-Baker is home to stay.
“When the pandemic hit and all of a sudden I was working from home, it really hit me how much I missed my family,” said Tillona-Baker. “I never had enough time at home to let it sink in.”
Is the Republican Party Still Trump’s Party?
Mitch McConnell, who previously said that Trump “provoked” the violence that cannoned the Capitol, voted to support Paul’s claims of the impeachment being unconstitutional. McConnell faced state-level political friction as Kentucky’s Nelson County Republican Party recently voted to censure him for what the chair called “impugning the president’s honor” in the discourse relating to the certification of the election results.
Forty-five Republican senators sent a strong signal Tuesday when they sided with Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) efforts in deeming Donald Trump’s upcoming impeachment trial unconstitutional, the latest indicator of the former president’s clinching grip over the party, despite reports of lawmakers distancing themselves from the previous administration after the deadly U.S. Capitol riots.
Updated on January 28, 2021 at 11:53 pm
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The MBTA is reeling from a massive drop in riders, but a financial crisis sparked by the pandemic didn’t derail pay perks for many T executives.
State payroll records reviewed by the NBC10 Investigators show the struggling public transit agency paid more than $162,000 in bonuses to seven high-ranking managers last year. More on this story tonight at 11 on NBC10 Boston
The list includes the T s general manager, Steven Poftak, who took home $20,800 in bonus pay on top of his $324,523 annual salary.
Other bonus earners include the chief of the Green Line transformation, who received $39,375; the senior director of procurement operations, who received $28,435; the chief customer experience officer, who got $27,675; and the chief of paratransit services, who took home $15,750, state records show.