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Homes are seen on June 2, 2011, a day after a tornado in Springfield, Mass. damaged several neighborhoods. (Jessica Hill/AP)
Ten years ago this Tuesday, multiple tornadoes tore through western Massachusetts, killing three people, injuring 200, and causing more than $200 million in damages.
The most violent of the tornadoes touched down at 4:17 p.m. in Westfield, churning into West Springfield, then Springfield, leaving streets blanketed with rubble and broken glass, road signs twisted, entire sides of buildings sheared off, and roofs punctured or missing.
Marisol Mendez was working at Springfield Technical Community College that day, stripping and waxing floors. Although the safest place in a tornado is in the interior of a building in the basement, she and her co-workers first peered out big windows on the seventh floor to get a view.
My Turn: We must cherish public higher education
UMass campus in Amherst.
Published: 5/26/2021 4:45:14 PM
In words unchanged since 1780, the education clause of our state’s Constitution reads that “[i]t shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish… the public schools and grammar schools in the towns.”
Is the Legislature living up to this constitutional mandate? Not yet.
Per-student state funding for public higher education fell 31% from 2001 through 2019, driving up tuition and fees and mounting student debt.
The CHERISH Act (S.824 and H.1325 An Act to commit to higher education the resources to ensure a strong and healthy public higher education system), which I filed with Reps. Sean Garballey and Paul Mark, draws its inspiration from our constitutional obligation. Co-sponsored by upward of 90 House and Senate colleagues, the bill would require the commonwealth to fund public higher education at no less
Community Foundation of Western Mass. names VP SPRINGFIELD The Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts has appointed Denise Hurst as vice president for community impact and partnerships. Hurst will oversee community investments, including.
Dear Jo with Sen. Jo Comerford: We must cherish public higher education
UMass campus in Amherst.
Published: 5/25/2021 1:16:15 PM
In words unchanged since 1780, the education clause of our state’s Constitution reads that “[i]t shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish… the public schools and grammar schools in the towns.”
Is the Legislature living up to this constitutional mandate? Not yet.
Per-student state funding for public higher education fell 31% from 2001 through 2019, driving up tuition and fees and mounting student debt.
The CHERISH Act (S.824 and H.1325 An Act to commit to higher education the resources to ensure a strong and healthy public higher education system), which I filed with Reps. Sean Garballey and Paul Mark, draws its inspiration from our constitutional obligation. Co-sponsored by upward of 90 House and Senate colleagues, the bill would require the commonwealth to fund public higher