The Framingham Heart Study celebrated a belated 75th anniversary April 8, drawing study participants from around the country, local and national politicians, and representatives from Boston...
Boston Herald: ‘Gun show loophole’ rule that will outlaw ‘virtually all private’ gun sales announced
It's been a quarter of a century since the shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado brought the "gun show loophole" into popular discourse, and the Biden Administration has just announced...
Common Dreams: Advocates ‘Elated’ as Biden DOJ Closes Gun Show Loophole
The White House on Thursday honored "the will of the vast majority of the American people," one Democratic lawmaker said, as President Joe Biden announced a final rule closing a loophole that has...
MassLive: Mass. pols: Boston Logan Airport on runway for $22M in federal cash
An injection of more than $22 million in federal infrastructure law money will pay for "much-needed" infrastructure improvements at Boston Logan International Airport, a cadre of the Bay State's...
MetroWest Daily News: Framingham Heart Study has been ongoing for 75 years. They’ve helped everyone live longer
Like many in the city, Judy Daubney's participation in the Framingham Heart Study is a family affair.Daubney grew up in Framingham, and is a third-generation participant. Her grandmother, Rose...
MetroWest Daily News: Framingham charity will receive federal money. How they’re upgrading their facility
Fresh off securing federal funding for several suburban projects, Framingham's congresswoman visited the South Middlesex Opportunity Council's child care center on Monday to speak with...
NBC Boston: Clark calls for Johnson to follow through on Ukraine aid vote as House returns to session
A two-week recess has come to a close for the U.S. House of Representatives.Lawmakers returned to Washington on Tuesday, including Democratic Whip Katherine Clark, who spoke with NBC10 Boston.The...
Boston Globe: President Biden, Governor Healey slam Trump’s abortion stance: ‘Don’t let Donald Trump lie his way out of this’
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, President Biden, and anti-abortion groups on Monday slammed former president Donald Trump's stance that abortion policies should be left to the states,...
yourArlington: MyRWA awarded nearly $1m for green infrastructure projects
The Town of Arlington, in partnership with the Mystic River Watershed Association (MyRWA), earlier this spring was awarded $959,757 from the United States Environmental Protection...
POLITICO: House Democrats are lending the GOP speaker a hand — and they don’t mind
Speaker Mike Johnson got Democratic help to pass a $78 billion tax bill. He did the same on a bill that could ban TikTok. He did it on three stopgap government spending bills. And he's...
Raw Story: ‘Work until you drop dead’: GOP’s proposed budget takes ax to Social Security, healthcare
The Republican Study Committee has released its proposed 2025 budget which would take an ax to major elements of the social safety net, healthcare system, and civil rights, while affecting...
New Boston Post: Massachusetts Taxpayers Can File Returns Directly With IRS
Residents of Massachusetts can now file their taxes online for free directly with the IRS.Massachusetts is one of 12 states where taxpayers can use a new system, called Direct File, to file their...
Patch: Framingham State Gets Funding For Virtual Simulation Lab
Last week, the Massachusetts Congressional Delegation helped secure $1 million in federal funding to create a state-of-the-art simulation lab in the newly renovated Christa McAuliffe Center for...
HuffPost: Democrats Plan To Put Abortion Front And Center At Biden’s State Of The Union
Democrats plan to put reproductive freedom front and center at President Joe Biden's State of the Union address Thursday night.Over 30 Democrats, as well as First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, are bringing...
Roll Call: Biden to renew calls to lower health costs at SOTU
President Joe Biden will call on Congress to allow Medicare to increase its ability to negotiate drug prices and to expand caps on consumer prescription drug costs during his State of the Union...
Washington Post: Democrats’ State of the Union guests put reproductive rights in spotlight
The first child born via in vitro fertilization. A doctor who came forward to say she provided an abortion to a 10-year-old girl who had been raped and denied care in Ohio. Two women who...
The Hill: Democratic State of the Union guests show focus on abortion, IVF
Democrats want to remind voters of their efforts to protect access to abortion and most recently have seized on the Alabama Supreme Court's ruling that frozen embryos are children.They are...
Central Jersey: ‘Access for us would be number one’
Democratic House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, U.S. representative from Massachusetts, and Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-12) met with YMCA providers, the New Jersey Department of Human Services...
New Jersey Globe: D.C. Dispatch: What N.J.’s members of Congress did in Washington this week
Congress's biggest mission this week, as it has been several times over the last few months, was to keep the lights on, and it did. Phew.In addition to passing a stopgap funding bill, New Jersey's...
Newsweek: GOP Extremism Has Made Gun Violence a Part of Americans’ Daily Lives | Opinion
Last month, I toured Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. I joined Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) and three dads who had each lost a child to the mass shooting on Feb. 14, 2018.It...