January 26, 2021 We the successors of a country and a time/Where a skinny Black girl/descended from slaves and raised by a single mother/ can dream of becoming president [of the United States]. Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb
On May 31, 1849, Owen Finnegan, Joe Biden s great-great grandfather from Ireland, arrived in New York aboard the ship
Brothers. He was part of an oppressed people who were fleeing their country because of caste oppression and a system of landlordism that made the condition of the Irish peasant comparable to those of an American slave (Noel Ignatiev,
How the Irish Became White). America, Ignatiev explained, scooped up the displaced Irish and made them its unskilled labor force.
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BIDEN S BOOSTER SHOT The Covid-19 vaccine rollout in Massachusetts has been pretty slow compared to other states. Can President Joe Biden speed it up?
The new president made a big promise: 100 million vaccinations in the first 100 days of his term. But before he took office, Biden expressed concern that his Covid team won t meet that goal,
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GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. It s really coming down out there!
WILL HE STAY OR WILL HE GO? What s in store for House Speaker Robert DeLeo s future? That s what everyone wants to know.
Epidemiologists wage a battle against more than just the virus
Updated December 13, 2020, 2:30 a.m.
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Theyâre looking out for all of us, and yet they get death threats
Re â âMakes you ask why the hell we even botherâ â: In her front-page article last Sunday, Hanna Kruegershines a light on some extremely painful and honest feelings voiced by several epidemiologists in our area. Dr. Ashish Jha, Dr. Michael Mina, Dr. Sara Suliman, and Dr. Caroline Buckee, all putting in massive hours of work for these many months, share their personal and professional frustrations and even dejection.
Some of these medical experts even have to cope with death threats and now have to worry about their familiesâ safety. This is outrageous. When did so many in this country become so disrespectful and unwilling to listen to science? For those with children, how do they explain their actions?