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GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS.
NEW: ANTI-HAWLEY PAC LAUNCHES IN MASS. A new Massachusetts-based PAC has its eye on an ambitious U.S. Senator from Missouri.
The U Against Hawley PAC,launched by alumni of Washington University in St. Louis, is aiming to raise $1 million from a national network of donors to support opponents running against GOP Sen. Josh Hawley by the time the primary heats up in a few years.
When Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program started vaccinating adults staying in homeless shelters three weeks ago, they found excitement at each stop. Doctors, nurses and shelter staff members applauded dozens of shelter guests who got the shots.
Fifty-year-old Jeffrey Davis was one of them. The Pine Street Inn guest said he took the vaccine because COVID-19 scares him. I was afraid of dying from it, to tell you the truth, he said.
Jeffery Davis, who has been staying at Pine Street Inn for two and a half years, receives the COVID-19 vaccine in January. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
But that initial rush for the vaccines dropped off much more quickly than expected, according to registered nurse April Donahue. She s associate director of clinical operations at Health Care for the Homeless.
In fight against opioid use, $1.5 million awarded to Massachusetts nonprofits
Updated Feb 10, 2021;
By Katie Lannan | State House News Service
A total of $1.5 million in grants will flow from Attorney General Maura Healey’s office to 16 organizations across the state that plan to use the money to fund recovery coaches, bilingual staff, outreach efforts and other measures aimed at expanding access for communities of color to opioid use treatment and recovery programs.
Healey announced the grants and discussed the initiatives during a virtual roundtable discussion Tuesday with some of the awardees, in which she said her office will aim to provide more such funding in the future. The grants were funded by a settlement Healey’s office last year reached with the Andover-based Injured Workers Pharmacy over its prescription drug dispensing practices.
A NorâEaster, A Pandemic And No Place To Live
A man experiencing homelessness takes shelter at a bus stop during a snowstorm on Dec. 17, 2020, in Lawrence, Mass.
Elise Amendola/AP
As the snow began to pile up Monday night, Jim Greene set out to bring a sleeping bag to a Boston man spending the night on the street.
âI wish we could convince him to come in, but he just refuses,â said Greene, assistant director for street homelessness initiatives for the city of Boston. âIt s a really complex set of issues, struggles and traumatic events in a person s life that makes them fearful of going into a crowded place.â
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