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For backers near and far, Question 2 is the answer

Stakeholders and observers make their case for ranked-choice voting.

Weighing Trump immigration policy just makes it all the more hurtful

"How does turning away terrified people seeking a better life or stripping the legal status of immigrants because they use Medicaid 'make America great'?"

Youth hockey world must be compelled to cooperate with virus protocols

"Rink owners must insist that the leagues and teams who use these facilities cooperate fully with public health authorities or lose access to the rinks for good."

Our New England towns, gnemonically speaking

"Here’s a simple way to distinguish our town of Stow from the one north of us."

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Amid all the tumult, high school teacher has found students to be saving grace
"They are considerate, patient, respectful, and flexible, and they have followed COVID precautions cheerfully."

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If Boston schools are shut, private schools should be too
"It is impossible to conceive of the closure of the Boston Public Schools while private schools remain open as anything less than a racist policy."

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Welcome, Justice Barrett. Now here’s your asterisk

"She will always be connected with the double dealing and political chicanery of the Donald Trump/Mitch McConnell era."

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Envisioning Trump as Mr. Nice Guy

"If Donald Trump loses the election, he may be polite for the first time in his life."

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The ‘biohazard’ of discarded needles

A protest outside Governor Baker's home has drawn attention to the state's policies on dealing with substance use disorder.

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Donald Trump and the inconvenient virus

"President Trump has been struggling to turn COVID-19 into a mere distraction. But as the virus continues to rage, the nation’s focus will not be denied or trivialized."

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Two points: All BPS schools should be ‘opportunity schools,’ and not all exam schools are the same

"If exam schools are 'opportunity schools,' does this leave the open-enrollment schools as 'misfortune' schools?"

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Steps forward and backward at Boston School Committee

Just as the city moved toward transforming exam school admissions, the School Committee's chairman, Michael Loconto, set off a firestorm by mocking Asian names.

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Grading the debate on a curve

Most folks will probably agree that Trump’s behavior in the previous debate has lowered the bar, but giving him a winning B- is a misleading and dangerous grading on a curve.

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A poor showing by Trump

As I watched the second presidential debate on Thursday night, I was struck by how unpresidential Donald Trump is.