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My Turn: Biden’s long step towards long-term care AL NORMAN Published: 5/11/2021 6:25:06 PM Back in the early 1980s, I recall meeting U.S. Sen. Claude Pepper of Florida, the elderly rights champion, at a rally of advocates in Cambridge. Pepper told the crowd: “I hope to live long enough to see long-term care become part of the Medicare Program.” Pepper died in 1989 — and his dream has still not come true 32 years later. Federally sponsored health care has been a long time coming. Franklin Roosevelt thought about national health care in 1935. Harry Truman proposed it in 1945. Dwight...

Residents, health officials frustrated over vaccine rollout in Western Mass. Registered nurse Sam Stafford of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office gives a COVID-19 vaccine to Rosie Sheppard, 88, in her Highland Village apartment in Shelburne Falls last week. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ Dona Blanchard of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office gives a COVID-19 vaccine to Highland Village resident Ben Collins in Shelburne Falls last week. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ Modified: 3/16/2021 1:33:16 PM Editor’s Note: This story is the second in a weeklong s...

I recently logged onto the Massachusetts COVID-19 vaccine appointment scheduling website, looking to help a few elderly friends who had been unable secure an appointment. I was greeted with this message: “Your estimated wait time is 7,565 minutes.”I...

Vaccines relief for some, frustration for others Big Y Pharmacy Manager Lee Kimball administers a COVID-19 vaccination to Phil Crafts of Leverett at the Big Y Pharmacy site in the old mattress store next to the supermarket in Greenfield. STAFF FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ Published: 2/19/2021 4:13:45 PM Dozens of seniors throughout the county expressed frustration and anger this week as COVID-19 vaccination slots opened up to people 65 years old and older, and as many of them tried to register, they found the state website where people sign up for all vaccine locations had crashed. The Greenfield R...

Committee finishing review of Greenfield’s charter SINGER Published: 2/2/2021 5:28:59 PM GREENFIELD — The city’s Charter Review Committee is finishing its review of the document that guides everything from how many representatives serve on City Council, to how much the mayor makes, to how many signatures a person has to collect to bring forth a citizen’s initiative or referendum. The city reviews its charter every 10 years. This time, former City Council President David Singer is heading up the effort. The committee will complete its task in the next several weeks and make recommenda...