Franklin County legislators fight state move to take ride service from transit agency
An FRTA bus at the John W. Olver Transit Center in Greenfield. STAFF FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Published: 4/21/2021 5:11:50 PM
A group of Franklin County lawmakers is keeping up the pressure on the Baker administration to back away from its plan to consolidate a state-run transportation service that provides access to health care appointments and other services.
Five legislators, three from the House and two from the Senate, wrote to Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders on Friday to express their concern that the Franklin Regional Transit Authority (FRTA) will no longer be allowed to participate in the Human Service Transportation (HST) program.
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PROVINCETOWN Should Race Point be renamed Meeshaun Point in honor of the original Wampanoag village of the region?
The Wampanoag Advisory Committee thinks so, and it wants the Provincetown Select Board to support the idea.
The support of the board would be the first step in a lengthy federally run process, according to town, state, and federal officials.
“Meeshaun is the original Wampanoag name of the village that was there in what is now P-Town,” Wampanoag Advisory Committee chairman Linda Coombs said.
Meeshaun was a part of the Wampanoag Nation’s 69 villages that spread throughout eastern Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island. The name was given by Natives who lived on the land for over 12,000 years, she added.
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Massachusetts lawmakers are debating their transparency procedures â behind closed doors
By Emma Platoff Globe Staff,Updated April 7, 2021, 9:46 a.m.
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Could this be the year Massachusetts state representatives open themselves up to more scrutiny?
Constituents seeking an early hint could look to a recent meeting of the legislative committee debating just that â when lawmakers voted to conduct discussions about their internal transparency rules out of the view of the press and public.
Itâs that instinct toward secrecy that advocates are targeting this year in a renewed push for transparency on Beacon Hill.
For years, voters have been left to wonder why some popular, common-sense proposals donât pass in the Massachusetts House â even when a majority of the chamberâs members sign on publicly in support. Thatâs because the vast majority of bills never get a formal vote; instead, they die in the obscure committee process, where vote
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GUEST COMMENTARY: State House gets F on transparency
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Mark Anthony cried, when eulogizing Caesar, “If you have tears, prepare to shed them now,” for “men have lost their reason!”
Alas, citizens today should mourn the behavior of our state House of Representatives. How is it that those who ask for basic transparency in the Massachusetts House find themselves defeated undone by their own colleagues. How is it possible that Massachusetts’s seat of democracy has become one of the most secretive legislatures in the country, sending bills to “study,” only to kill them? One asks, “Why do we tolerate such hypocrisy and watch progressive causes which are mere common sense fail to thrive?
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