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The Joint Committee on Administration and Regulatory Oversight will decide on a $400 million request by Governor Charlie Baker to build a new Holyoke Soldiers Home.
1 month ago in Local Photo: WHMP AMHERST, Mass. (AP) – A Guatemalan man has left Massachusetts church he lived in for more than three years to avoid deportation after being granted a reprieve from federal immigration officials. Lucio Perez stepped out of the First Congregational Church in Amherst on Saturday after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently stayed his deportation. Perez was among more than 70 immigrants nationwide who took sanctuary in churches during President Donald Trump’s administration. He and his family were joined outside the ...
Updated on March 12, 2021 at 10:39 am NBCUniversal Media, LLC Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said Friday that he thinks President Joe Biden's objective of having all adults eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine by May 1 and allowing people from different households to gather by July 4 is "absolutely doable" as long as the vaccine supply ramps up over the coming month. "No matter how you do the math, we're one of the top vaccinators as a state in the country," Baker said. "Within a matter of days, every dose we get from the feds ends up in somebody's arms. If the feds can actually deliver on the...
Gov. Charlie Baker said Thursday that Massachusetts ranks third in the country for the percentage of Black residents who received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the state is getting shots to people of color at a proportionate rate. According to the state’s weekly vaccine date report, more than 22 percent of white residents in Massachusetts have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine, while just less than 15 percent of the state’s Black residents and just 8 percent of Latino residents have gotten at least one shot. The raw numbers look even ...
About 400,000 educators, child care workers and school staffers became eligible for the coronavirus vaccine in Massachusetts, Thursday, as the state released its latest batch of vaccination appointments. With demand for appointments soaring, the state Thursday morning made available some 40,000 new appointments next week at mass vaccination sites. As in previous weeks, wait times on the state’s vaccination website...