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JEFF JACOBY

Sunsets are beautiful — in government too

An expiration date should be included in every law and regulation.

MARCELA GARCÍA
Roxbury resident Francell Simmons receives the COVID-19 vaccine from EMT Alex Honrado at the Reggie Lewis Center, in Boston in February.
Why vaccine equity still matters
Vaccination rates are significantly lower in communities of color in Massachusetts. The primary reason for this wide gap is that people are still not being met where they are.

Katherine Gergen Barnett
Why we should wear masks post-pandemic
They are protecting us from deadly diseases besides COVID-19.

Alex Beam
California, mon amour (still)
I just can’t stay away from California. It reminds me of Boston’s legendary honky-tonk Scollay Square, a place where ‘there was always something doing.’

SCOT LEHIGH
House minority leader Kevin McCarthy said that “raising taxes would be the biggest mistake we can make."
As the Gipper might say, there they go again
Warning: Be skeptical of GOP predictions that calamity will come if taxes go up.

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Kimberly Atkins

In bid to end COVID-19 unemployment boost, GOP misses the she-cession

All of the economy’s 140,000 lost jobs in December were held by women.

ABDALLAH FAYYAD
On Nov. 16, a woman is silhouetted as she takes in the faces in the photographs that make up the "Say Their Names" memorial on Boston Common. According to its website, "The Say Their Names Memorial is a nationwide initiative to honor Black lives lost to racial injustice, police brutality, and racism."

We actually know very little about police brutality

Despite having militarized police departments across the country, the federal government does not collect comprehensive data that encompasses all kinds police violence.

Mary Ann D'Urso
Cashier Diana Rivero stands behind a partial protective plastic screen and wears a mask and gloves at the Presidente Supermarket in Miami in April, 2020.

The Grocery Stories: Transactional work relationships

There are many good people working at my store, and we get on well. In many ways, though, we are strangers commuting on the same train.

Joan Vennochi
An MBTA employee checks on a new Orange Line train before a ribbon-cutting to celebrate the arrival of the trains in 2019.

In case you missed it: The Orange Line is falling apart

Now that the MBTA has introduced new vehicles, it would be nice if they could get them to run properly.

JEFF JACOBY
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joe Biden.

A Democrat in the White House? Cue the FDR analogies

Americans in 2021 aren’t asking for another New Deal, and have made sure the president lacks the power to enact one.

Jyoti Jasrasaria
Election inspector Taquaine Mason observes a voter drop his ballot into the box during early in-person voting, Oct. 29, 2020, in Cambridge.

Voter suppression happens in Massachusetts, too

Our election laws put us in line with some of the worst states in the country.

SCOT LEHIGH
Governor Charlie Baker and his team have fought their way forward from the doleful days when their inoculation-organization efforts were widely panned.

Charlie Baker’s big bounce back

A bipartisan event with President Biden helps showcase Governor Baker’s recovery after a COVID-19 fumble.

RENÉE GRAHAM
Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin (center) is taken into custody on April 20 after he was found guilty on three counts for the murder of George Floyd in 2020.

Unless qualified immunity ends, there’s no police accountability

Holding officers financially liable for misconduct is the most important provision in the Democrats’ policing legislation.