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The term 'turf' is misleading
MOUNTAINS OF OLD truck tires dotting the US countryside used to be a common sight, but no longer. Companies have found a lucrative new use for old tires: grinding them up and re-marketing them as "artificial turf" for children's athletic fields. The arguments in favor of plastic turf initially appear compelling. It's a way to reuse plentiful tire waste. It offers an apparently durable sports surface that doesn't require irrigation or sunlight. It can be used in wet conditions.
We spearheaded state's 2014 gun law; new legislation can build on it
FOR NEARLY 10 years Massachusetts has been one of the states with the lowest rates of firearm deaths. Firearm deaths include homicides and suicides by firearm and firearm accidents. Most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the annual firearm death rate in Massachusetts is 3.4 per 100,000 residents while the national firearm death rate is 14.7 per 100,000, or nearly five times the rate in Massachusetts.
Former Massachusetts House Speaker DeLeo Starts New Job At Northeastern
By The Associated PressJanuary 23, 2021 at 4:44 pm BOSTON (AP) — Former Massachusetts House speaker Robert DeLeo, as expected, has landed a new job at Northeastern University. DeLeo, 70, who resigned last month, started his role as University Fellow for Public Life this week, a Northeastern spokeswoman said. The position is in the Office of the Provost, according to the school’s staff directory.
States need stimulus - and we need it now Original
State budgets, like spending plans everywhere, tend to be dry documents devoid of tantalizing headlines. But they are, fundamentally, where values meet action — a blueprint of how our representative democracy is going to support the people, ideas and initiatives that need us most. Massachusetts, where we lead the Senate and House, wrapped up its budget last week in the form of a $46.2 billion spending plan.
DeLeo defends House campaign finance vote - CommonWealth Magazine
State government/ Opinion Disheartened to see bipartisanship weaponized By Robert DeLeo Elections, Massachusetts Legislature Sep 27, 2019 THIS WEEK THE HOUSE of Representatives engrossed H.4067, An Act Relative to Campaign Finance, which updates the campaign finance law with specific emphasis on increasing transparency in elections by requiring more frequent reporting by House and Senate members.
Ocean plot auctions reap windfall for future
Breaking News DA: Haverhill girl’s death under investigation December 18, 2018, 10:58 pm Offshore wind grew up overnight right off the coast of Massachusetts last week, with a federal auction for ocean plots fetching lucrative prices from developers competing for the right to build among the first commercial-scale offshore wind farms in the nation.
Massachusetts welcomes a future with clean energy
By Robert A. DeLeo and Thomas Golden, Special to Digital First Media In this Aug. 15, 2016 file photo, a lift boat, right, that serves as a work platform, assembles a wind turbine off Block Island, R.I. Massachusetts is expected to start accepting proposals at the end of June, 2017 for large scale, offshore wind energy projects, the first such of its kind in the US.
As I See It: New tools in continuing battle against opioid addiction
From Provincetown to Pittsfield, and Central Massachusetts in between, individuals suffer, families struggle, and community resources strain under the weight of the opioid epidemic. Every day, Massachusetts loses five lives to overdoses from heroin, fentanyl, prescription opioids like oxycodone, or a mix of substances, while countless others wrestle daily with the disease of addiction.
As You Were Saying...Imagine greater Big Data boom
Albert Einstein once said “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” What if we could have both? That might be possible with the unfolding discoveries occurring in the world of Big Data. That’s why the Massachusetts House is striving to make Greater Boston the first Big Data Hub. And to do that the House will create a Big Data Fund with at least $2 million in state money to promote the use of data science and bring together the public and private sectors to prepare the workforce of the future.
DeLeo: Putting politics aside to fight an epidemic
Amidst a national backdrop of increasingly polarized political discourse and unsettling rhetoric, Massachusetts' state political leaders, Republicans and Democrats alike, came together on Monday to watch Governor Baker, a Republican, sign a crucial bill aimed at stopping the scourge of opioid abuse in our state.From the bucolic Berkshires to bustling Boston, the opiate epidemic has left no corner of the state untouched.
DeLeo: Putting politics aside to fight an epidemic
Amidst a national backdrop of increasingly polarized political discourse and unsettling rhetoric, Massachusetts' state political leaders, Republicans and Democrats alike, came together on Monday to watch Governor Baker, a Republican, sign a crucial bill aimed at stopping the scourge of opioid abuse in our state.From the bucolic Berkshires to bustling Boston, the opiate epidemic has left no corner of the state untouched.
Mass. House Speaker Robert DeLeo Remembers Menino
When I first became Speaker in 2009 one of the people to call me was Mayor Menino. We already knew each other from afar: from my time as Chair of the House Committee on Ways & Means and from interacting at events in the neighborhood where I spent my early years and drive through every day to get to the State House, East Boston. When I became Speaker in 2009 that relationship deepened as municipal and state leaders alike confronted the worst financial downturn since the Great Depression.
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