Baker: Feds should match vaccine distribution to demand
April 22, 2021 GMT
BOSTON (AP) Gov. Charlie Baker said Thursday he’s pressing federal officials to reconsider how they distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to take into consideration the relative demand for the vaccine in individual states.
The distribution of vaccine shots is currently based on population.
But there is stronger demand for the vaccine in some states than in others, Baker said, with some areas essentially telling federal officials not to send them more shots because they haven’t been able to use the vaccine they have.
“If you have folks who aren’t taking down the allocation that is being made available to them, we here in Massachusetts would love to have that because we have people who want to be vaccinated and we have an infrastructure that could probably do two times, as many as three times, the doses a day as we do now,” Baker said at an afternoon press conference.
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The final steel beam for the new school building s structure was put in place during a topping-off ceremony.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh, City and state officials, and members of the Boston Arts Academy Foundation, along with Boston Arts Academy (BAA) representatives, today raised the final steel beam into place to complete the structure of the new, $125 million BAA facility on Ipswich Street, directly across the street from Fenway Park.
At a time of great societal change for young people across the country, construction of this world-class building for Boston s only public high school for the visual and performing arts serves as a bright, shining example of the ingenuity and innovation of the Boston Public Schools vision for the future. BAA students, faculty and the community at large will reap the benefits of the expanded space, which will soon open its doors to BAA s rapidly growing student population.
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City Hall suspends its racial equity fund-raising as Marty Walsh heads to D.C.
The city has only raised a small amount to date, and will donate much of that another racial equity fund, one run by prominent Black business executives.
By Jon Chesto Globe Staff,Updated February 3, 2021, 1:03 p.m.
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Some of the executives involved in the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund, which will take over much of the money raised by the Boston s Racial Equity Fund, a city operation.Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff
With Mayor Martin J. Walsh poised to join the Biden administration, city officials have suspended fund-raising for the Boston Racial Equity Fund and shifted most of its money to a privately-run statewide effort with similar goals.
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After a brief but significant tenure as artistic director of Watertown s New Repertory Theatre, Michael J. Bobbitt will depart this month to become executive director of the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Bobbitt – who joined the nonprofit theater in August 2019 and led it not only in expressing solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, but also in the development of its Strategic Anti-Racism, Inclusivity, Diversity, Equity, Access, and Accountability Action Plan, all while simultaneously dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic – will take over leadership of the MCC on Feb. 1.
“I had planned to be at the New Rep for many years, so the timing of this move seemed a little off,” Bobbitt, 48, acknowledged in a recent telephone interview from his home in Cambridge. “But this position with the MCC was too good to turn away from. It’s a tremendous opportunity.”
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