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Private colleges and universities in New England were some of the first to announce they ll require vaccination for all students returning to campus this fall. Some of the region s state colleges and universities have also begun to follow suit – but not all of them.
State universities in Massachusetts are leading the way with vaccine mandates, while university systems in neighboring states have been less explicit. At least one has said it will wait until permanent approval of the COVID-19 vaccines by the Food and Drug Administration before considering a requirement for students.
Many Massachusetts state universities are requiring the COVID vaccine
Mass. state schools will require students be vaccinated this fall. Will other states follow? Hadley Barndollar, USA TODAY NETWORK
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Private colleges and universities in New England were some of the first to announce they ll require vaccination for all students returning to campus this fall. Some of the region s state colleges and universities have also begun to follow suit – but not all of them.
State universities in Massachusetts are leading the way with vaccine mandates, while university systems in neighboring states have been less explicit. At least one has said it will wait until permanent approval of the COVID-19 vaccines by the Food and Drug Administration before considering a requirement for students.
Members Of Mass. Congressional Delegation Request $100 Million For Community Projects
U.S. Representative Katherine Clark has asked Congress to earmark $4 million to connect commuter rail to subways and buses at the Wonderland station in Revere.
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The nine Democratic members of the U.S. House from Massachusetts have requested a total of nearly $100 million in federal funding for local projects, ranging from education and human services to drinking water and climate resilence.
During periods of Republican control over the last two decades, the House has banned earmarks for local projects, provisions often secretly slipped into the spending bills. The practice gained a bad reputation for funding wasteful, self-serving projects that were labelled pork, a name drawn from the barrel of meats that was passed around to slaves. Some campaign donors were suspected to have traded contributions for earmarks.