Before he was a candidate for governor in Massachusetts, he was a state senator — and taught at a public college for two years.
Benjamin Downing, a Democrat who lived in Pittsfield at the time but in East Boston now, served as a member of the Massachusetts Legislature from 2007 to 2016. Towards the end of his tenure, he started taking up teaching jobs, making a few thousand dollars to teach a course.
The travel rules are now a little different for people when it comes to traveling to Massachusetts, if they are fully vaccinated.
Now people who have either received two doses of the Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines or one dose of the Janssen vaccine more than 14 days ago don't need to quarantine or provide a negative COVID-10 test upon arriving in Massachusetts. That is the case for those who are asymptomatic, as WCVB reports.
