Editorial Roundup: New England
Boston Globe. March 4, 2021.
Editorial: Winter is almost over. Almost.
Positive signs abound in the state’s fight against the coronavirus. But it would be premature to let our guard down.
America is entering a dangerous phase of the coronavirus crisis: jumping the gun.
Yes, three different vaccines against the disease have been approved. Millions of the most high-risk Americans have been inoculated. Both new infections and deaths are trending down, and statistical models are promising. The weather will soon improve, which should reduce infections.
But that doesn’t mean the country, or Massachusetts, should declare victory quite yet.
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Chasing a painterâs long-lost rainbow at Brook Farm
By Murray Whyte Globe Staff,Updated January 28, 2021, 11:41 a.m.
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Josiah Wolcott s Brook Farm With Rainbow, painted in 1845.Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society
WEST ROXBURY â Thereâs no farm to be found at Brook Farm, a tangle of footpaths and untended forest, marsh, and brush tucked into a corner of West Roxbury. Its shambling 179 acres are surrounded, quite literally, by a sea of headstones from a pair of cemeteries that bookend it north to south. Its trails are favorites of dog walkers, I learned on a recent chilly morning. (I counted at least a dozen over an hourlong ramble.) But the land itself tells no tales. All youâll see is one lonely, peaked-roof building just off Baker Street, right across from the cemetery administrative office. It was built by a Lutheran group years after the nominal farm disbanded, a faint echo of the rich history long since returned to the eart
Gov. Baker signs bill creating maternal health commission Share Updated: 6:06 AM EST Jan 14, 2021 By State House News Service File Photo Share Updated: 6:06 AM EST Jan 14, 2021 By State House News Service A new state commission, established under a law Gov. Charlie Baker signed Wednesday, will be tasked with seeking out steps to address racial inequities in maternal health.The panel will explore ways to reduce or eliminate inequities in maternal mortality or severe maternal morbidity and investigate barriers to accessing prenatal and postpartum care, the availability of doulas and birthing centers, and the impacts of historical and current structural, institutional and individual forms of racism, the State House News Service reported. In a statement issued last week after the bill (H 4818) cleared the Legislature, Sen. Becca Rausch said Black people giving birth in Massachusetts are twice as likely as their white counterpa