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Seyhmus Yuksekkaya of Swampscott, a Kurdish native of southeastern Turkey, said he knows firsthand what Turkish oppression looks like. It’s an enduring, embedded hostility that originated long before he came to the United States for safety and freedom 20 years ago, he said.
On Tuesday, as Turkish troops continued to pound Kurdish enclaves in northern Syria, Yuksekkaya struggled to find the words to fully convey the consequences of President Trump’s abrupt decision last week to withdraw US troops from that area.
Tufts renewed its contract with the Confucius Institute, a Chinese government-funded language and cultural education center, until 2021, after a semester-long review process that was triggered by concerns over Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence and suppression of academic freedom.
The review committee’s report, published Tuesday, found that while Confucius Institute instructors avoided sensitive political topics, there is no evidence of CCP propaganda being disseminated through the institute’s language instruction or cultural activities.
Gloucester’s congressional delegation is urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to pony up the additional $2.4 million necessary so the long-sought dredging of the Annisquam River can begin on time on Oct. 1.
In a letter to the commander of the Army Corps’ New England District, U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton and U.S. Sens. Edward J. Markey and Elizabeth Warren stated the project — to remove sand, silt and gravel to return the river and portions of the Lobster Cove anchorage to fully navigable channels — is essential to protect Cape Ann public safety, transportation and commerce.
“We’ve got your back.”
These are words every American veteran knows. We say that to each other, and we say it to our allies.
President Trump only says it to our enemies.
Trump said he “fell in love” with Kim Jung Un, curtailing our military exercises and repeatedly handing him propaganda victories, for almost nothing in return.
ONCE SEEN AS POTENTIAL RIVALS, Congressman Seth Moulton and his North Shore neighbor Gov. Charlie Baker are rowing in the same direction on how to prevent a repeat of the bureaucratic nightmare at the Registry of Motor Vehicles.
Notifications about infractions Massachusetts drivers committed in other states piled up unaddressed at the registry over a period of years, and Bay State regulators didn’t alert their counterparts about driving incidents that happened here.
Salem, Mass. — The office of Congressman Seth Moulton (D-MA) is accepting applications to U.S. service academies through the end of October. Every Member of Congress has the ability to nominate students within their congressional district to attend a service academy. Moulton, a Marine who served in Iraq, annually nominates up to 10 candidates for vacant slots allocated to the district.
It’s a bit nutty in an age where you can tell a disembodied voice in your kitchen to order more milk from the grocery store that someone whose license is suspended for drunken driving in one state can cross a border into another state and basically wipe their record clean. As is painfully obvious now, that’s exactly what was happening for years, at least in Massachusetts, where those kinds of notices from other places were left to pile up in the corner of a state office in Quincy.
BOSTON — A long-awaited project to dredge the sand-clogged Annisquam River could be back on track, according to U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, citing a deal with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that will allow work to move forward.
Moulton said his office, working with state and local officials, has secured a waiver from the Army Corps and the federal Office of Management and Budget that will allow the project to move ahead with $2 million in recently allocated state funding to plug a gap between the estimated $6 million price tag and bids that came in much higher than expected.