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A trolley car is stopped at Park Street on Jan. 31, 1961.

In the 1950s, a nickel was a child’s ticket to a Boston joyride

In the 1950s, my sister and her girlfriend would take me with them.

In the 1950s, a nickel was a child’s ticket to a Boston joyride

In the 1950s, my sister and her girlfriend would take me with them.

With corporate ties, many Boston hospital leaders make themselves objects of reproach

At that level one should be avoiding even the appearance of conflict of interest. Plausible deniability is not sufficient.

Clemency is an issue of social justice and economics

These mechanisms exist to help people who have paid their dues move forward and create a better life for themselves.

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Governor Charlie Baker speaks during a COVID-19 vaccination update Wednesday at the Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston.
N.Y. is right, Governor Baker — bring on the vaccine passport
Baker’s reluctance to use that information to facilitate safe expansion of the state’s economy seems shortsighted.

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Protesters hold portraits of George Floyd as hundreds of people gather on March 29 for a rally at the end of the first day of the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin outside of the court building in Minneapolis.
Whatever the outcome in Chauvin trial, justice will have been served
I cannot fathom an acquittal. Still, that is not my choice to make.

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Air Force veteran Robert Aucoin, 78, receives a COVID-19 vaccine dose at the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke on Dec. 29, 2020.

In pushing old-style approach for a new soldiers’ home, Mass. abandons key blueprint for care

Instead of building a monument to our past failed efforts at institutionalization, the Commonwealth should develop and operate supportive living options and related services.

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A new definition of ‘chutzpah’

It used to be said that the defining case of “chutzpah” was the man who murdered his parents and pleaded for clemency on the grounds that he was an orphan. This definition may now be updated, as I have just read the statement of Patricia Stewart, director of the so-called “Citizens for Life."

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Lingering damage done by COVID-19

Re “COVID’s lingering grip” (Page A1, April 13): In addition to neurological disorders, please let’s not forget physical issues induced by a long bout with COVID-19.

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Chyna Whitaker (center) holds her son, Daunte Jr., as she walks up to microphones to speak during a news conference, Tuesday, in Minneapolis. The father, Daunte Wright, 20, was shot and killed by a police officer on Sunday after a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minn.

An ‘accident’ in Minnesota

Readers respond to the shooting death by a police officer Daunte Wright, in Minnesota.

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The assembly line for gas turbines at the General Electric Co. energy plant in Greenville, S.C,, in 2017.

Turning down the gas

Readers respond to David Abel's “Facing a choice on natural gas” (Page A1, April 10).

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Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders provided updates on COVID-19 vaccination in Massachusetts during Governor Charlie Baker's press conference at the State House, March 25.

Sudders and Baker failed seniors

A reader writes that Seniors were mismanaged and abandoned by Governor Baker and Secretary Sudders.

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There’s a difference between ‘constituents’ and voters

Renée Loth poses the question as to why Republicans would oppose President Biden’s plan when it helps their constituents. The question as worded illustrates the common mistake of confusing voters and constituents.

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Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia, has been resistant to calls for eliminating the use of the filibuster in the Senate.

A different filibuster work-around

Scott Lehigh does a good job of explaining the impact that the filibuster has on the workings (or not) of the Senate. But he has missed the core problem here.