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Seth Moulton, the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts’s 6th congressional district, has released a proposal for investing $240 billion in a nationwide high-speed rail network. The plan would create an estimated 2.6 million jobs over the span of five years and “let the free market thrive in transportation as it does elsewhere in the American economy, [giving] a new generation of Americans, competing in a new world, the options and efficiencies we demand.”
- Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) has a new bill proposing $205 billion to build high-speed rail routes in the U.S.
- Moulton's documents argue that China's advocacy for high-speed rail also presents a diplomatic threat.
- The high price tag is spread over five years of development, including funding existing projects.
Wired has a new profile of Democratic Congressman Seth Moulton, whose love of egalitarian transit has him chasing a $205 billion high-speed rail option to connect parts of the U.S.
Accuse Representative Seth Moulton of loving trains too much at your peril. Yes, the Massachusetts Democrat worked for a time on a high-speed-rail project in Texas, one that is now finally inching toward a groundbreaking ceremony. He’s pressed for a new rail tunnel in Boston. He’s a booster for commuter rail. But ask him why he loves trains, and he’ll correct you, firmly. “It's not that I just like trains so much,” he says. “We should have a transportation system that’s balanced and gives people options.”
BOSTON — Members of the all-Democratic Massachusetts congressional delegation are pushing to include more East Coast seafood in purchasing agreements funded by the federal Coronavirus Food Assistance Program.
They applauded a U.S. Department of Agriculture decision last week to include Atlantic seafood in so-called Section 32 program food purchases made available in part by the $2.2 trillion CARES Act approved in late March.
The Massachusetts fishing industry is in line to receive millions in federal coronavirus relief dollars and in seafood purchases for people dealing with food insecurity — programs commercial fishermen hope will buoy an industry that has been hard hit by the pandemic.
May is National Mental Health month. We speak with Rep. Seth Moulton, who has made mental health services a focus of his work in congress.
PEABODY — Six communities in Massachusetts, one of them Peabody, have received grants to access and clean up contaminated properties under the Environmental Protection Agency’s Brownfields Program.
The grants total $2.7 million, of which Peabody will receive $300,000, according to Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass. The funds will help underserved and economically disadvantaged communities around the state in assessing and cleaning up abandoned industrial and commercial properties.
NEWBURYPORT — Rupert A. Nock Middle School eighth-graders may not be able to go to Washington, D.C., this year, but they are still learning about civics with help from local officials.
With the assistance of social studies teachers Jennifer Groskin and Kyle Boudreau, the students had a 30-minute question-and-answer session via Zoom with Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Salem, on Thursday.
DANVERS — A wayward shipment of about 9,500 gowns intended to protect Northeast Arc and 15 other organizations' workers and their clients during the coronavirus pandemic has been found stuck in customs.
Tim Brown, Northeast Arc's director of innovation and strategy, said 6,000 gowns were shipped out Tuesday "and are on the road." Another 3,500 gowns were still in customs, he said.
The gowns were purchased from a promotional marketing company in China.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WLNE) — Things have been slow at the Port of New Bedford.
The fishing industry is hurting since restaurants have been shut down. Local fisherman estimate nearly 70% of seafood consumed in the country is done so in restaurants.
“We’re probably scaled down at this point about half of where we would be historically from a head-count perspective,” explained Keith Decker, president and CEO of Blue Harvest Fisheries in New Bedford.