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We check in with Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton on the President's decision to pardon a Navy SEAL, the ongoing impeachment hearings, and other issues facing the country and Massachusetts.
In Iraq, I learned there are two types of courage: physical courage and moral courage. Moral courage was often the hardest to find.
SINCE 2000, 17,496 citizens of Massachusetts have died from an opioid overdose. Half of those deaths came in the last five years. That’s like one of at least 245 communities in the Commonwealth disappearing in 19 years. Enough people in Massachusetts have died from an opioid overdose to fill all but 69 of the seats at the TD Garden for a Bruins game.
Nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control estimates 700,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose death in the years spanning 1993-2017. That’s more people than live in the entire city of Boston.
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — If there’s a word that sums up the current mood of the West’s high command, it’s this: despair.
That’s the clearest and most alarming takeaway from discussions with the assorted diplomats, military officials and security wonks who assembled this weekend for the annual Halifax International Security Forum in Canada, a clubby gathering of leading democracies.
DANVERS – Impeachment might be dominating the national political scene, but Congressman Seth Moulton on Thursday night spoke to North Shore business leaders about another contentious topic closer to home – traffic.
In a speech before more than 500 people at the North Shore Chamber of Commerce's 101st annual dinner meeting at Danversport, Moulton said improving the state's transportation system is "essential" to economic success.
Leonel Rondon Pipeline Safety Act responds to Merrimack Valley explosions
Even as General Electric scaled back its grand ambitions for Boston, the company held true to its initial promises to give millions to the city’s public schools and the local health care scene.
There was one component of its $50 million local charitable program that had remained unfulfilled: workforce training. GE pledged when it moved here from Connecticut in 2016 that it would provide $10 million to train underserved populations outside the Boston metro area, including in Lynn and Fall River.
GE is now making good on that promise.
Enes Kanter is just trying to worship in peace, hoping to find a quiet corner in a Boston-area mosque for his weekly Friday prayer. He’s wearing a gray Celtics fleece, maybe just subtle enough for a seven-footer to blend in for a brief moment in mid-October. He’d hoped for a quick reprieve between morning practice and a slate of afternoon interviews about the situation in Turkey.
This time, as he leaves the mosque, a group of kids clamors to meet him. Among them is a young boy who asks Kanter where he’s from. The answer delights the boy, who exclaims, “Wow, I’m Turkish too!”
Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter appeared at a press conference alongside Senators Edward J. Markey and Ron Wyden in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday as the lawmakers introduced legislation condemning President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey ahead of his White House visit.
“You guys know my story because I play in the NBA. But there are thousands and thousands of stories way, way worse than mine,” Kanter told reporters Tuesday. “So that’s why I’m trying to use my platform to be a voice for all those innocent people who don’t have one.”