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WORCESTER – Derrick Kiser, the former city gang leader who now leads a nonprofit aimed at addressing trauma in kids, is hosting a community cleanup and vaccination event Saturday at City Hall to kick off Mental Health Awareness Month.  “Mental health doesn’t have a geography, color or race,” Kiser, who has invited leaders from the community, legislature and police, said this week, stressing the importance, especially during the current times, of mental health awareness.  Kiser said th...

WORCESTER — The city Friday said it intends to implement a police body camera program by 2022 at the latest, and will start scheduling meetings to get community input shortly. “The city is committed to a body camera program, and will soon be engaging in community conversations on what that would look like,” spokesman Walter Bird wrote in an email to the Telegram & Gazette on Friday.  “I’m grateful for the announcement from the city today,” James P. McGovern, the city’s longtime ...

Yellen pushes for global minimum tax rate to create more level playing field Martha C. White © Provided by NBC News Higher corporate taxes are a key part of paying for President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure package. In order to keep American multinational companies from being at a competitive disadvantage, the administration is lobbying for other countries to commit to a tax floor. In a speech to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs on Monday, Treasury Secretary J...

Millbury receives grant for public spaces The Millbury-Sutton Chronicle Frost and Moore Announce Millbury Awarded Grant for Improving Public Spaces BOSTON — Rep. Paul K. Frost, R-Auburn, and Sen. Michael O. Moore, D-Millbury, announced that the town of Millbury has been selected as a recipient of a grant from the Shared Winter Streets and Spaces program, an initiative offered by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation that enables municipalities to improve the condition of public ...

UPDATED: Feb. 26, 2021 at 8:40 p.m. A bill spearheaded by student organizers, including Harvard alumni, to establish protections for survivors of sexual harassment at colleges and universities in Massachusetts beyond existing provisions in Title IX was signed into law by Governor Charlie D. Baker ’79 last month. By the time it passed, the bill boasted 160 co-sponsors in the Massachusetts State House, including lead sponsors State Senators Michael O. Moore and William N. Brownsberger ’...

Gov. Charlie Baker is resisting calls from undertakers and dozens of lawmakers, including many in Central Massachusetts, to follow the lead of 33 other states and bump funeral directors to the first phase of COVID-19 vaccinations.  “I’m dumbfounded,” C.R. Lyons, a Danvers funeral director who serves as president of the Massachusetts Funeral Directors Association (MFDA), said Thursday after reviewing the Baker administration’s response to the calls.  The funeral association has, for we...

Baker resists calls from lawmakers, undertakers to lift funeral workers to top of vaccination list Brad Petrishen, Telegram & Gazette © T&G Staff/Rick Cinclair MILLBURY - Matthew Mulhane, left, and his father Stuart Mulhane own Mulhane Home For Funerals in Millbury Thursday, January 21, 2021. Gov. Charlie Baker is resisting calls from undertakers and dozens of lawmakers, including many in Central Massachusetts, to follow the lead of 33 other states and bump funeral directors ...

For legislators, virtual meetings and social media have been helpful ways to connect with constituents since COVID-19 struck 10 months ago. But the absence of face-to-face interaction - during events, office hours or on the street -has wiped out the important interactions that tend to shape lawmakers actions. “There’s nothing to go to. You’re trying to keep up with people and things going on in the district. But it’s not as easy as people might think,” said state Rep. Peter J. Dura...