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Yarmouth Health Director Bruce Murphy called Wednesday’s news from the Baker-Polito administration “very disappointing.”
There’s not enough vaccine on the Cape for individuals age 75 and up, who have been eligible since Feb. 1 to be immunized against COVID-19, he said.
“It’s akin to having people waiting in line to see The Who, and five busloads of people show up to jump the line,” said state Rep. Timothy Whelan, R-Brewster.
Whelan was one of more than 90 elected and appointed Cape officials who signed a letter to Baker asking for 55,000 more doses of vaccine to immunize all Cape Codders ages 75 and older.
Beacon Hill Roll Call: Jan. 18 to Jan. 22, 2021
Published: 1/29/2021 3:10:27 PM
There were no roll calls in the House or Senate last week. Instead, Beacon Hill Roll Call reports on the percentage of times local representatives voted with their party’s leadership in the 2020 legislative session.
Beacon Hill Roll Call uses 259 votes from the 2020 House session as the basis for this report. This includes all roll calls that were not on local issues. The votes of the 125 Democrats were compared to former House Speaker Bob DeLeo until he resigned in December. After that, they were compared to current Speaker Ron Mariano. The votes of the 30 Republicans were compared with House Minority Leader Rep. Brad Jones, R-North Reading.
Editor s note: This is part of a series of 10 stories on a variety of topics that take a look back at 2020 and forward to 2021. Many policies and practices were changed or adjusted because of the pandemic, and we look at how those changes will shape the future.
Driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, mail-in voting was at an all-time high in 2020. More than 1.5 million ballots were cast by mail in the November general election in Massachusetts, accounting for nearly 42% of the nearly 3.7 million ballots cast across the state
Although universal mail-in voting was a popular alternative in November, it is not yet clear that it will become a permanent option in the future.
MBTA violated open meeting law with police order, AGâs office says
The Tâs oversight board in June directed officials to stop providing bus transportation for police responding to the George Floyd street protests
By Adam Vaccaro Globe Staff,Updated December 15, 2020, 1:04 p.m.
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The MBTAâs oversight board violated the Massachusetts open meeting law when, at the height of the George Floyd protests, its members directed agency officials to stop transporting local police forces to protests in T buses, the attorney generalâs office has determined.
In early June, when street protests challenging police use of force were gripping the nation, the MBTA came under fire from advocates for working with Boston Police to bus dozens of officers to demonstrations. The oversight board issued a directive cutting off the long-standing practice, even though board members did not hold a public meeting to vote on the decision.