Social isolation is a major health risk for older adults. Groups across Mass. are stepping up.
Rates of depression among older adults has increased since COVID, leading to an array of other physical health risks.
A Walk Down the Block: Brockton, Cape Verde's '11th island'
Around 70,000 Cape Verdeans live in Massachusetts, with many of them now calling Brockton home.
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Nina Kuscsik, marathon pioneer and first (official) winner of Boston women's race, has died
Nina Kuscsik, who campaigned for women's inclusion in long-distance running and then won the Boston Marathon the first year that they were officially allowed to enter into the race, has died. She was 86. -
Mass. Rep. Auchincloss warns Marines are trained for war — not policing U.S. cities
The Massachusetts congressman is calling President Trump’s deployment of Marines to Los Angeles illegal, unfair and driven by politics, not public safety. -
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Judge rebukes Trump administration, orders NIH to resume paying canceled grants
Judge says the NIH acted arbitrarily and capriciously in specifically targeting grants related to diversity and the LGBTQ community. -
Mass. lawmakers compromise on $1.3B spending plan for millionaires tax revenue
Negotiators allocate $593 million for education, $716 million for transportation in bill marked for votes on Wednesday.
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Scratch & Win follows the unlikely rise of America’s most successful lottery. We begin in 1970s Boston, with state bureaucrats going toe to toe with mafia bookmakers, and each other, as they struggle to launch the state's greatest innovation: the scratch ticket.
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