Fishermen Getting Hammered By Restaurant Shutdowns

About 70 percent of seafood sales in Massachusetts go to restaurants, which means fishermen are hurting from the state's closure of bars and restaurants because of coronavirus.

Prices have plummeted along with the customer base, particularly for high-end items like lobster and shrimp, according to The Cape Cod Times.

Think Cops Are Racists?  Think Again
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Think Cops Are Racists?  Think Again

NBP Editorial Board

Heather Mac Donald's The War on Cops, written in 2016, is a first-class book that decisively refutes the frequently heard claim that America's entire criminal justice system is "racist."

Many of the candidates in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary debates made this charge a key part of their campaigns. But her book, written not long after the racially charged incidents in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, marshals 233 pages of facts and data to convincingly make the case that this claim is baseless. Her book not only persuasively demonstrates that the criminal justice system is not "racist" but also shows how the anti-policing movement in many parts of the country has caused a major increase of violent crime, as police officers retreat from pro-active policing.

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