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Executive Editor of CommonWealth Beacon, which covers politics, ideas, and civic life in Massachusetts
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Haverhill sewage spill underscores urgent need for bond bill to fund climate infrastructure

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By Chris Mancini, Michael Jonas Verified
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AS MASSACHUSETTS PREPARES to celebrate the Fourth of July enjoying our rivers and beaches, communities along the Merrimack River are instead checking water quality advisories after a devastating accidental sewage leak. Last Friday, heavy rain induced a major sewer line break in Haverhill, sending millions of gallons of wastewater into the river and to the surrounding beaches on the coast where it empties.
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Honoring America’s promise by reading Frederick Douglass

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By Brian W. Boyles, Michael Jonas Verified
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DURING THE YEARS of preparation for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, I’ve known one thing for certain: on July 4, 2026, I will read Frederick Douglass somewhere in Massachusetts. This is the 18th year in which Mass Humanities has sponsored readings of Douglass’s famous speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” This year, fittingly, 76 communities signed on to read the speech.
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Massachusetts is failing to keep kids safe online. It can start by criminalizing AI-generated child pornography

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By Mary L. Pulido, Michael Jonas Verified
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THE GREATEST THREATS to children’s safety are no longer confined to dark alleys or strangers cruising in vans. They are embedded in the digital spaces children enter every day — on phones, gaming platforms, social media, and increasingly through artificial intelligence capable of generating child sexual abuse material. Predators now have unprecedented, real-time access to children. The digital landscape has never been more dangerous for young people or difficult for parents to navigate.
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