Lesser, AG tout new student loan borrower bill of rights >Sen. Eric Lesser, D-Longmeadow, and Attorney General Maura Healey speak Thursday about the state’s recently implemented Student Loan Borrower Bill of Rights. SCREENSHOT
Published: 7/15/2021 9:25:32 PM
BOSTON A bill creating a Student Loan Borrower Bill of Rights and an ombudsman’s office tasked with protecting those borrowers has gone into effect in Massachusetts.
State Sen. Eric Lesser, D-Longmeadow, was an author of that bill, and six years after he first proposed the legislation it passed in January as part of the state Legislature’s $627M economic development bill. On July 1, Arwen Thoman was named the state’s first student loan ombudsman, whose work will be conducted out of the attorney general’s office.
Funding for police alternative in Amherst called ‘slap in the face’
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Published: 5/18/2021 3:50:10 PM
AMHERST As a resident of Colonial Village for the past several months, Timmy Sullivan says he has seen first-hand a heavier police presence at the apartment complex than when he was living in more well-to-do neighborhoods in Amherst.
This experience is prompting him to support the full $2.2 million funding for a public safety alternative proposed by the Community Safety Working Group, known as the Community Response for Equity, Safety and Service, or CRESS program, and cutting the police department, noting that Black Lives Matter protests over the past year following the George Floyd murder have endorsed defunding police.
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Science teacher John King and his wife have traveled across Massachusetts in their school bus to bring real-world science lessons to his students stuck at home.
Updated on February 10, 2021 at 11:20 pm
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Lowell, Massachusetts, science teacher John King thrives on interactive, hands-on lessons for his sixth graders.
So when the pandemic forced schools into remote learning last March, King was completely out of his element. And without reliable Internet at his West Townsend home, he had to find public wifi to even reach his students.
“I sat in my little yellow car and taught my lessons from March until June and realized that that was not going to work out,” King said.
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That’s when he found this bus in an online auction for $6,000.