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This Massachusetts police practice skews racial profiling stats
Temperatures soared into the 90s on the day Nary stopped Gabriel for the second time, according to weather reports, and he remembered sweltering, handcuffed, in the back of the officer’s cruiser. Though the officer marked his race as white on the traffic ticket, “he didn’t treat me like a white person,” Gabriel said.
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Why the fight to curb racial profiling via traffic stop data keeps failing in Mass.
Former state Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz said the Senate’s unanimous public vote to require police to collect data on all traffic stops reflected the will of Massachusetts voters. The bill that came out of the conference committee that November, she said, reflected the will of Massachusetts police.
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State officials tout no bias in police stops. Looking closer reveals a different reality.
When Massachusetts released its first taxpayer-funded report on racial profiling in two decades last year, the narrative was clear. Researchers found “no support for patterns of racial disparity in traffic stops,” state public safety officials wrote in a press release. But a USA TODAY Network investigation raises serious questions about how the study was procured, influenced and…
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An unsettled issue: Why do ospreys nest on utility poles, and what can be done?
“Where’s my list,” said Friel, his thick auburn beard partially obscured by a Patriots mask, as he fiddled with his phone. “Here it is. Osprey nest in tree, tree, tree, tree, tree. Boat rack. Building, building, building. Chimney. Light tower, light tower. Now we get into utility poles: pole, pole, pole, pole, pole, pole, pole,…
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Weathering the storm: Valdovinos family in Hyannis rocked by COVID will rise
“It’s a tradition that for someone who passes away, we pray the rosary for nine days,” Laura said as she sat next to her uncle Osvaldo at a booth in Mi Pueblo. “It felt like one rosary prayer would end and then the next one would start. It was one after another.”
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It’s Tuesday – amid the coronavirus pandemic – at Framingham’s Red Roof Plus
When the cash register is filled, Fritz himself removes the bills and lines them up on a counter in the back – he arranges them so they are all face-up – before he grabs a bottle of yellow liquid, the peroxide bleach, and sprays down the bills.
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‘She was a pistol’: Natalie Caplan, 96, a St. Patrick’s Manor resident, succumbs after contracting coronavirus
After the first week of lockdown, Natalie started to become disoriented. She began asking Debra what shows she liked to watch, what channels the shows were on, things she had remembered before. She asked when the lockdown would end. She asked what day it was, a question that particularly bothered Debra.
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When it comes to the coronavirus, nursing home secrecy frustrates family members
On May 19, Shelley Buma, a lifelong resident of Whitinsville, an unincorporated village in Northbridge, emailed her local health department. She wanted to know how many residents of the town’s skilled-nursing and long-term care facilities had died.
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‘We don’t have a voice.’ Framingham condo residents fight for a say in decisions about the property.
Photos and videos taken by residents over the past few months show deteriorating buildings and outdoor dumpsters overflowing with trash. Door locks on condo building entrances are repeatedly broken, and residents say they’ve found people they didn’t recognize sleeping in the hallways. In a crawlspace under the stairs of one building, loose silverware and trash…
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Aging dams in MetroWest and the Milford area a budget burden, pose danger in climate change era
A two-month investigation by the Daily News into the condition of the region’s dams found there’s a lot of work to do. Several aging structures are in poor condition, and many don’t have the legally required emergency response plans in case they fail.