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PEABODY— Help is on the way for North Shore entrepreneurs seeking cash to start a business, first-time homebuyers looking for a low-cost mortgage and the unemployed seeking job training.
U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) will host an Economic Development Federal Resource Forum at Peabody City Hall today. The event will feature senior staff from 13 federal agencies.
BEVERLY — Nancy Frates says that March 13, 2012, was the lowest day in her life.
That’s when the news came that her son, Peter, had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease that causes muscle weakness, paralysis and, ultimately, respiratory failure; and for which there is no cure.
But, as Boston College athletic director Brad Bates said Tuesday at the Frates home in Beverly, “when you are handed the most horrific circumstances and you see that as an opportunity, you are an inspiration.”
The headquarters are currently being leased in Concord, but USACE NE has sought to renovate former Air Force research laboratory buildings on Hanscom Air Force Base for the headquarters, with the goal of saving government funding over the long-term.
A bipartisan bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Salem, aimed in part at cutting down on veterans' wait times to get in front of medical doctors, cleared the House Tuesday.
"Today, I'm proud that the House came together to pass my bipartisan bill," said Moulton, who sponsored the bill alongside Congresswoman Cathy McMorris, a Washington Republican. "This legislation will require the VA to use innovative technology in the private sector and drastically improve access to healthcare for our veterans."
BEVERLY — The passage of landmark legislation designed to help people with eating disorders has hit home for millions of people dealing with the disease — including one family from Beverly.
Red Rock Lane resident Linda Downey went to Washington, D.C., last year to help lobby for the legislation after her daughter's long struggle with anorexia. On Wednesday, Congress passed what advocates are calling the first-ever eating disorders legislation. The bill is expected to be signed by President Obama.
A bipartisan bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Salem, aimed in part at cutting down on veterans' wait times to get in front of medical doctors, cleared the House Tuesday.
"Today, I'm proud that the House came together to pass my bipartisan bill," said Moulton, who sponsored the bill alongside Congresswoman Cathy McMorris, a Washington Republican. "This legislation will require the VA to use innovative technology in the private sector and drastically improve access to healthcare for our veterans."
One of Ohio’s four Democratic Congressman, 43-year old Tim Ryan of Niles near Youngstown, lost a widely watched bid to topple Nancy Pelosi from California in a House Democratic Caucus election held Wednesday.
Sixty-three Democrats went rogue by voting for Ryan, sending shock waves through Democratic leadership circles that a new message and a new messenger is needed to win back voters who ditched the party and its presidential candidate this year, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The fiscal 2017 defense policy bill provides fewer than half of the visas for Afghan interpreters that the administration asked for, sending advocates and lawmakers back to the drawing board on how to allow the 12,000 who have applied to come to the U.S.
The administration asked for 4,000 visas in fiscal 2017 to bring Afghans who had worked as interpreters for American troops to the U.S. Many are facing threats of death or violence against themselves and their families because of their work with the American military.
As the Democratic Party responds to an election that landed Republicans in control of the White House and both branches of Congress, U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton on Monday said his party needs to rethink both its message and its messengers.
A freshman congressman whose first bid for office was the 2014 race in which he knocked off 18-year Rep. John Tierney, the Salem Democrat has been among those advocating for new leadership within the party and a focus on economic issues after Hillary Clinton's Nov. 8 loss to President-elect Donald Trump.
If Donald Trump really wants to help the U.S. military and make American great again, I've got a suggestion. What better way to promote both goals than by keeping Congress' promises to admit Iraqis and Afghans who helped U.S. troops?