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Mass. Question 3: Should rideshare drivers be allowed to unionize?
This November, voters in Massachusetts will get to decide whether or not Uber and Lyft drivers should be allowed to unionize. If approved, Question 3 will make Massachusetts the first state in the nation to let rideshare drivers unionize, enabling them to engage in collective bargaining for wages, benefits and work conditions. In June, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell…
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Cleaning up Tobin Bridge's lead paint pollution brings new issue: noise pollution
Lead paint chips are continuing to fall from the Tobin Bridge, which spans the Mystic River between Boston and Chelsea. But the yearslong project to fix it is so loud, the state is giving out white noise machines. The noise comes from dust collectors, part of a repainting job that began last year after residents complained of the hazardous paint…
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Mass. seizes St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in effort to keep hospital running
Massachusetts has seized St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood, using eminent domain in an effort to keep the Steward Health Care property open. Gov. Maura Healey plan involves transitioning operations of the hospital to Boston Medical Center. The governor says the move is necessary to avoid a public health emergency that would be set off by its...
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Man stabbed, walks to children's hospital in Brighton
A stabbing late Wednesday morning in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood shocked people in the area, with the wounded man checking himself in to a pediatric hospital. Officers temporarily shut down a section of Camelot Court and Warren Street while they searched the area for evidence and interviewed potential witnesses. The 34-year-old man who was stabbed near an apartment complex about 11:48…
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Pembroke mourns teen with ‘big old smile' killed in Duxbury car crash
A Massachusetts community is mourning the loss of a beloved teenager who died days after crashing her car into a tree in a nearby town.
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Mayor Wu, Boston school superintendent working to improve busing issues
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and School Superintendent Mary Skipper held a press conference Tuesday morning to discuss busing issues that have been impacting district families over the first week of the new school year. Last week, two Boston city councilors asked the state to intervene due to chronic issues with late school buses. City Councilors Ed Flynn and Erin Murphy…
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Some call to boycott Newton over scuffle that led to shooting at pro-Israel rally
Some pro-Israeli groups are calling for a travel and business boycott of Newton and Middlesex County after a scuffle at a pro-Israeli demonstration in the Boston suburb last week led to a man being shot.
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2 women, officer praised for quick action during Tyngsborough senior housing fire
Two residents and a police officer are being praised for their heroic efforts during a fire at a senior housing complex in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts. Burned bacon led to the fire that forced the evacuation of dozens of residents on Thursday. Susan Durgin had seconds to learn how use a fire extinguisher. “It was unsettling,” she said. She and her bestie,…
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Teacher ‘truly died as a hero' in Georgia school shooting, says NBC10 Boston producer who knew him
This week’s school shooting in Georgia hit close to home for one of our producers at NBC10 Boston. Two students and two teachers were killed in the shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder. One of the victims was math teacher Richard Aspinwall, who doubled as a defensive football coach. “I never thought that I would know one of...
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‘Somebody needs to do something': Migrant families sleep outside MBTA station in Quincy
Dozens of migrant families spent the night outside the Wollaston MBTA station in Quincy, Massachusetts, on Monday. Charitable groups said it’s a symptom of the lack of shelter space in the state and the result of new rules that went into effect earlier this month. The Boston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network (BIJAN) said 47 people – about half of them…
