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1 month ago | 
register-herald.com | Gintautas Dumcius |Hannah Edelheit
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
commonwealthbeacon.org | Hannah Edelheit
A SPECIAL COMMISSION tasked with offering solutions to the state’s overwhelmed emergency housing assistance program voted on Tuesday to approve a report with a series of recommendations, but no clear roadmap, to help ease the burden on both the state budget and families that need assistance.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
commonwealthbeacon.org | Hannah Edelheit |Gintautas Dumcius
THE MASSACHUSETTS emergency shelter system, hit with an influx of migrant families, should seek financial stability by shifting away from a one-size-fits-all model and shrinking the percentage of families relying on hotels and motels for housing, according to officials behind a draft report released Tuesday by a commission tasked with studying the system. The panel, chaired by Lt. Gov.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
messenger-inquirer.com | Gintautas Dumcius |Hannah Edelheit
Roslindale, MA (CommonWealth Beacon)are debating, finger-pointing and soul-searching over losing the White House. House Speaker Ron Mariano said the results were a "wake up call."kAm|2C:2?@VD A@DE\6=64E:@? DE2E6>6?E D2:5 ?@E9:?8[ 9@H6G6C[ 23@FE 2?J ?665 7@C :?H2C5 C67=64E:@? @? E96 3:8 >6DD286 |2DD249FD6EED G@E6CD D6?E E@ 2? @A2BF6 DE2E6 {68:D=2EFC6 E92E D2>6 52Ji fa A6C46?E 324<65 "F6DE:@? `[ 2 >62DFC6 6IA=:4:E=J 2==@H:?8 pF5:E@C s:2?2 s:+@8=:@ E@ 2F5:E 9:> 2?5 9:D 4@==628F6D[ 6G6?
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
commonwealthbeacon.org | Gintautas Dumcius |Hannah Edelheit
DEMOCRATS ACROSS THE COUNTRY are debating, finger-pointing and soul-searching over losing the White House.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
newbedfordlight.org | Hannah Edelheit
CJ LoConte, a Duxbury native and Army veteran, said he experienced suicidal ideation upon return from his deployment in the Middle East in 2019. After going the traditional route of care, he experienced a “complete 180” after being treated with psilocybin. Backers of Question 4 on the Nov. 5 state ballot say they have taken lessons from their experiences and from other states on the use of psychedelics as a mental health treatment that would make Massachusetts a national model.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
commonwealthbeacon.org | Hannah Edelheit
A NEW REPORT suggests doing away with the second stairwell in buildings of three-to-six stories could boost housing production – a case of addition through subtraction. Due to fire safety, building codes for three-to-six story structures currently require two points of egress.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
commonwealthbeacon.org | Hannah Edelheit
A NEW TUNNEL to provide access to “hi-rail” work vehicles along the MBTA’s Red Line is raising environmental concerns, particularly about asbestos in the soil. The tunnel is slated to be built near Alewife Station and Russell Field in Cambridge. It would enable hi-rail vehicles – work trucks equipped with a hydraulic set of train wheels in addition to rubber tires allowing them to operate on railways and surface streets – to have another entry point to the Red Line.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
commonwealthbeacon.org | Hannah Edelheit
THE GENERATIONAL TOBACCO ban implemented first in Brookline and approved by the state’s Supreme Judicial Court is starting to catch on in Massachusetts. Six communities have already approved their own bans and a number of others are considering them. Peabody is the latest. It’s board of health is holding a public comment period on a proposed ban on October 24.
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Mar 27, 2023 | 
malatinonews.com | Hannah Edelheit
MA Latino News covers the social determinants of health and democracy. Collaborations like the partnership with Boston University’s Department of Journalism in the College of Communication is integral to the health of news and the health of democracy. One of Anna Rodriguez’s murals, “Mind over Matter,’’ adorns Warren Street near Nubian Square. Another that bears her imprint pays homage to Roxbury’s ZIP code 02119. The others are in the works, and Rodriguez is just getting started.
