The governor announced in August that executive branch workers will have to provide proof of a COVID-19 vaccination or seek an exemption from the state, otherwise they’d risk being fired.
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Posted inNation & World, New England
Three years after Boston mobster ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s killing: No charges, still questions
The lack of answers has only spurred claims by the crime boss’s family that the frail 89-year-old was ‘deliberately sent to his death’ at the penitentiary nicknamed ‘Misery Mountain.’
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Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Seabrook plant dispute over NECEC power line could hinder clean-energy effort, Massachusetts says
The federal-level fight represents yet another obstacle for the western Maine transmission line roughly a week before Maine voters will weigh in on a ballot question aimed at killing the project.
Posted inNation & World
U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to Massachusetts governor’s pandemic authority
The lawsuit argued thatGov. Charlie Baker had no authority to issue public health-related orders under the state’s Civil Defense Act.
Posted inNation & World, New England
Boston train that rear-ended another was on ‘full power,’ investigators find
The report did not say if the controller had been turned to full power on purpose or accidentally.
Posted inNation & World, New England
Boston’s storied Skinny House sells for a nice fat price
The house, built in 1862, also is known as the Spite House because of the story behind its construction.
Posted inNation & World, New England
Boston University professor falls to death through rusted staircase
He fell about 20 feet through a rusted-out staircase, which had been closed for nearly 2 years, near an MBTA train station.
Posted inNation & World, New England, Religion and Values
Ex-Cardinal McCarrick, 91, pleads not guilty in Massachusetts sex assault
An activist says former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s court appearance in a sex abuse case marks a new phase in the global struggle to hold clerics accountable.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, New England
Concern about endangered whales cited in lawsuit over wind farm
In response, a group that represents renewable energy companies stressed the project has undergone a lengthy environmental review, permitting and public comment process.
Posted inNation & World, New England
Schoolchildren lead effort to pardon wrongly convicted Salem ‘witch’
Twenty people from Massachusetts were killed and hundreds of others accused during a frenzy that began in 1692, stoked by superstition, fear of disease and strangers, scapegoating and petty jealousies.