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LYNN – The city has been reimbursed $1.3 million in federal money for repairs to the Seaport Landing Marina.
The cash, from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Federal Disaster Aid Program, enabled the city to repair the marina damaged by a February 2013 winter storm.
One is among the longest-serving current members of the US House of Representatives, an icon of the civil rights movement, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
The other is a Patriots fan.
Moulton was greeted with a standing ovation by those who squeezed in; some who didn’t make it inside said they were going home to watch via live stream. The congressman began the meeting by discussing how Republicans continue to move to repeal the ACA without a replacement. “The reality is, they have no plan,” Moulton said of the Republicans.
By: Kyle Scott Clauss
Sports bets are nothing new for electeds around these parts. Some, like the cursed Mayor Marty Walsh, know enough to button up, lest they place a hex. Others, like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, wager hackneyed hometown comestibles, like a case of Sam Adams.
US REPRESENTATIVE SETH MOULTON knows opportunity when he sees it — and he’s seizing it, as he should.
Moulton, a decorated Iraq War veteran from Marblehead, is putting himself on the front line of opposition to President Trump — and right in the middle of the battle over Trump’s controversial executive order to keep citizens of some Muslim-majority countries out of the United States.
By: Charles Pierce
SALEM — For Congressman Seth Moulton, President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries hits home.
The Iraq War veteran worked regularly with Iraqi interpreters while overseas, and developed a friendship with one interpreter that even led to the man living with Moulton’s parents in Marblehead for a time while he sought asylum in the United States.
“I haven’t talked to him since the ban,” Moulton said of his friend, Mohammed Harba, “but I’m sure he’s appalled.”
Interviewed by Ira Glass
Host Ira Glass interviews Congressman Seth Moulton (D., Mass.), who served four tours as a Marine in Iraq. Moulton talks about an Iraqi translator he grew close to, and about a special visa program that allows Iraqi and Afghan translators to come to the U.S. What will happen to the program after Trump takes office?
Listen to the full interview here
A string of victories in the November elections had apparently convinced some House Republicans they could insulate themselves from ethics complaints by gutting a key watchdog agency.