Can Elon Musk close the digital divide?
His Starlink satellites are bringing faster Internet service to places that lack it, including parts of Western Massachusetts
By Hiawatha Bray Globe Staff,Updated May 9, 2021, 3:59 p.m.
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When COVID-19 ravaged New York City, Mark Lipton fled his apartment for the relative safety of a farm he owns in a remote corner of Western Massachusetts. But Lipton, a professor of management at the Parsons School of Design, couldnât bring along his big-city broadband service. Instead, he found himself trying to conduct his classes remotely over a sluggish, obsolete DSL connection.
Investigations launched into racist social media posts attributed to police chief s daughter
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NAUGATUCK Multiple investigations are ongoing after racial comments made by Police Chief Steven Hunt’s daughter emerged on social media, prompting condemnations from officials and an apology from the chief and his wife.
Saturday night, Hunt and his wife, Naugatuck High School Vice Principal Johnna Minicucci Hunt, said in a statement that the posts were made by their daughter two years ago when she was 13 years old.
“We cannot soothe or erase the pain caused by the words and images seen by many. On behalf of our family, we sincerely apologize to all those who were hurt by this,” the Hunts’ statement read. “We are left, however, as parents of a scared, regretful child who has and will continue to suffer the consequences of her poor and inexcusable actions.”