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UPDATED: Feb. 26, 2021 at 8:40 p.m. A bill spearheaded by student organizers, including Harvard alumni, to establish protections for survivors of sexual harassment at colleges and universities in Massachusetts beyond existing provisions in Title IX was signed into law by Governor Charlie D. Baker ’79 last month. By the time it passed, the bill boasted 160 co-sponsors in the Massachusetts State House, including lead sponsors State Senators Michael O. Moore and William N. Brownsberger ’78, and State Reps. Lori A. Ehrlich and Tricia Farley-Bouvier, all Democrats. It was originally co-d...

Gov. Charlie Baker is resisting calls from undertakers and dozens of lawmakers, including many in Central Massachusetts, to follow the lead of 33 other states and bump funeral directors to the first phase of COVID-19 vaccinations.  “I’m dumbfounded,” C.R. Lyons, a Danvers funeral director who serves as president of the Massachusetts Funeral Directors Association (MFDA), said Thursday after reviewing the Baker administration’s response to the calls.  The funeral association has, for weeks, been lobbying Baker to bump a subset of funeral workers — about 1,900 people — into phase o...

Baker resists calls from lawmakers, undertakers to lift funeral workers to top of vaccination list Brad Petrishen, Telegram & Gazette © T&G Staff/Rick Cinclair MILLBURY - Matthew Mulhane, left, and his father Stuart Mulhane own Mulhane Home For Funerals in Millbury Thursday, January 21, 2021. Gov. Charlie Baker is resisting calls from undertakers and dozens of lawmakers, including many in Central Massachusetts, to follow the lead of 33 other states and bump funeral directors to the first phase of COVID-19 vaccinations.  “I’m dumbfounded,” C.R. Lyons, a Danvers funera...

For legislators, virtual meetings and social media have been helpful ways to connect with constituents since COVID-19 struck 10 months ago. But the absence of face-to-face interaction - during events, office hours or on the street -has wiped out the important interactions that tend to shape lawmakers' actions. “There’s nothing to go to. You’re trying to keep up with people and things going on in the district. But it’s not as easy as people might think,” said state Rep. Peter J. Durant, R-Spencer. Durant points to Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School’s annual sprin...