QUINCY – Well, it s over.
2020, a year unlike any other, has come and gone. It unleashed a once-in-a-generation pandemic and the resulting economic slowdown, exacerbated by lockdowns aimed at protecting people as cases mounted.
Gov. Charlie Baker and local politicians have called on the federal government for more help, which is on the way after President Donald Trump signed a second federal COVID-19 aid bill.
As the death toll from COVID-19 in Massachusetts surpassed 12,000 this week and continues to climb, there is hope as the state starts to administer vaccines.
The country has also been through massive political upheaval. The killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans by police has spurred a reckoning on systemic racism. The state is on the cusp of new police reforms that have worked their way through the Legislature onto Baker s desk, and diversity and inclusion are now a goal for more civic institutions.
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marine general joseph dunford jr., a widely respected he just did, widely respected combat hardened commander. general dunford led the coalition in key period from 2013 to 2014. if confirmed by the president, would replace general martin dempsey, who is about to complete four years as joint chiefs chair. that announcement just taking place at the white house. let s go back, kennedy we re talking about the economy. sandra was mentioning how huckabee made that a key focus and also his background and how that could maybe be a potential dig at jeb bush. no, absolutely. he said he is blue-collar not a blue-blood. if you see santorum get in the race you will see more blue-collar economic populism from the republican side. they obviously have more credibility talking about that. i don t want to see this presidential race go towards americans as victims. i want everyone to be a billionaire this country.
i am not waiting for a sacrifice i am not willing to make. i don t have a taxpayer paycheck to live off of. i don t come from a dynesty. but so we can preserve this great republic and some day so that your children and grandchildren can still go from hope to higher ground. [cheers and applause] i still remember, i remember it well when my dad took me to the dedication of newly con strucked boat arc few miles from here. it is named for dr. lester psychs my best friend who is here today. i was [applause] i was eight years old. and my dad said, now son governor will come dedicate this new lake and i m going to take you down there to hear you make a talk because, son, you might live your whole life and you may never get to meet a governor in person. [laughter] [applause] had my dad lived just four months longer he would have seen me do more than meet a governor. he would have seen me become the 44th governor of my state. [applause] i always wished he could have been there. mayb
that had a catalytic effect actually i think on demonstrations because people in the streets actually thought that obama was standing with them with the pro-democracy movement. the president actually wasn t. he was trying to have a dialogue directly with khamenei and his focus was on them, not on what was to come later with the green movement. but the united states can have an internal effect. i would suggest and argues that that incident should tell you that if the united states actually does talk about democracy in iran, if it actually uses its bully pulpit to challenge the regime, to challenge the regime on its internal oppression it actually can encourage change and reinforces to the people inside, psychologically. when we don t do that, i think we send signals to the regime that we don t really care. some iranian diplomats who have defected have made it crystal clear to folks that when they would write their tab