Massachusetts state Representative Michelle DuBois likes her projected new state representative district better than her old one.
The reason for that: the new district includes only portions of the city of Brockton. It will no longer include parts of the neighboring towns of East Bridgewater and West Bridgewater.
Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. By Sophie Quinton
Nurse Hannah Drummond routinely must watch patients for hours as they lie in the emergency department, waiting for a hospital bed upstairs. That includes patients so ill they use breathing machines or need hospice or intensive care, she said.