May 2017 - NewBostonPost

Resisting Reality at Harvard

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If Hillary Clinton “joining the resistance” wasn’t enough, Harvard now has its own resistance, too.  In response to President Donald J. Trump’s election this past November, several students at the Harvard Kennedy School, a graduate school that grants master’s degrees in public policy and public administration, have founded “The Resistance School,” a free, workshop-style program......

Guess Why The Massachusetts Teachers Association Snubbed National Teacher Of The Year

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BOSTON — For the first time since it was created in 1952, an educator from Massachusetts has been named National Teacher of the Year. The Massachusetts Teachers Association, however, is refusing to recognize the teacher, Sydney Chaffee. The likely reason? Chaffee teaches at Codman Academy, a charter school in Dorchester. Even though Chaffee bested millions......

Brooklyn Man Buys Movie Ticket, Triggers Internet

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Stephen Miller, a Brooklyn-based conservative columnist known for his musings at National Review, Heat Street, and other publications, also happens to be a fan of superhero flicks. When Miller heard a local movie theater was holding several special screenings of Wonder Woman, he immediately went online to reserve a ticket. The only problem:  the screenings,......

Kathy Griffin’s Trump Stunt:  Outlier, or Canary in the Coal Mine?

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As anyone who has ever seen her perform knows, Kathy Griffin has a diseased mind. So that helps explain why she posted on the Internet a photo of herself holding a representation of a bloody severed head of President Donald Trump. (We’ve decided not to link to it; but if you haven’t seen it yet......

How Much Will Plymouth Get for Big Anniversary Celebration?

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By Sam Doran STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE BOSTON — There could be state money coming down the pike for Plymouth’s 400th anniversary, along with more road signs to guide tourists from Route 3 toward historic sites in downtown Plymouth, if a Senate budget amendment for America’s Hometown sticks in conference talks. The Senator Vinny deMacedo......

Business Owner Threatened By Facebook After He Criticizes Pro-Cop Killer Comment

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(UPDATED 11 a.m. 5/31/17) — Editor’s Note:  Facebook has now enacted a 24-hour ban on Kyle Reyes’s account. The social media behemoth known as Facebook has had a well-documented rocky relationship with conservatives. It got rockier on Monday when a Connecticut business owner purportedly posted a comment rejoicing in the killing of a law enforcement officer......

How Many Teachers Aren’t Showing Up?

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  When it comes to absenteeism in public schools, it’s not just students who aren’t showing up. Sometimes it’s their teachers too. Actually, it’s the teachers a lot of the time. On average, about a fifth of teachers in the Boston area miss more than 10 days of the school year. New Boston Post culled......

Someone Apparently Doesn’t Like the New Massachusetts Senate Budget

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By Andy Metzger STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE BOSTON — The Massachusetts Senate session went out with a bang Thursday night, but no one seems to know the precise circumstances that led the Senate president to cut short his remarks in the final meeting held in the historic chamber before it is closed for renovations. Senate President Stan......

Nasty Woman Addresses Wellesley College Graduates

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  “In the years to come there will be trolls galore …” — Hillary Clinton Donald Trump’s greatest accomplishment so far isn’t winning the presidency of the United States but preventing Hillary Clinton from getting it. If you’re feeling low on gratitude, check out Mrs. Clinton’s commencement address at her alma mater, Wellesley College, this......

New York Times Tax Coverage Goes Off the Rails

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Binyamin Appelbaum is one of the more fair-minded and accurate reporters at the New York Times. For an example of his best work, one might look back to his reporting from Hazleton, Pennsylvania in October of 2016. So it was particularly dismaying to read Appelbaum’s dispatch earlier this month in the Times, under the headline “Trump Tax Plan Will......

Are Some People Just Not Worth It?

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Some people are worth saving, and some people aren’t. That’s the message of a new line item in the Massachusetts state budget proposing to spend $400,000 on Samaritans, a suicide prevention organization that provides a hotline for people thinking about ending their lives. The Massachusetts Senate added the line item this week. There was no......