Senate President Karen Spilka on Tuesday said Gov. Charlie Baker must let teachers get vaccinated this month and should set aside a percentage of doses for teachers and school staff.
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Third stimulus update: Feds sending Springfield an estimated $90M in COVID relief, Worcester $106M, Boston $400M; here’s how much your town, city may get
Updated Feb 24, 2021;
Massachusetts cities such as Springfield and Worcester may receive more than $90 million through the American Rescue Plan’s $350 billion influx of COVID-19 aid to help state and local governments across the country recover from gutted tax revenues and layoffs brought on by the pandemic.
The state should receive a total of nearly $8.3 billion according to President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion plan, which is likely up for a House vote Friday and Senate vote by mid-March. U.S. Rep. Richard Neal’s office told MassLive Tuesday that Beacon Hill should see about $4.5 billion to help address the virus, while more than $3.7 billion will be spread across local governments throughout Massachusetts.
‘It’s The Hunger Games’: Massachusetts residents recount roadblocks trying to book COVID vaccinations, lambaste state’s rollout
Updated Feb 23, 2021;
Posted Feb 23, 2021
Gov. Charlie Baker discusses COVID-19 vaccinations at the mass vaccination site at Eastfield Mall in Springfield. (Hoang Leon Nguyen/The Republican)
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Ellen Farley’s story last Thursday was one shared by tens of thousands of people across Massachusetts: She woke up in the pre-dawn hours, set up her computer and was promptly ready by 8 a.m. to book an appointment to get vaccinated for coronavirus.
Only instead, she was met by the hair-pulling image of a four-armed octopus telling her the site had crashed, one of the many barriers she experienced Thursday morning, each out of her control.