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Why Massachusetts schools are having an ‘extremely difficult’ financial year
September 04, 2024 Carrie Jung As a new school year kicks off, teachers across Massachusetts will be heading back to the classroom with fewer colleagues as districts tighten budgets. In the Boston suburb of Braintree, a $4 million budget shortfall for this school year led to layoffs of roughly 40 staff members, meaning 5% of…
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Community fridges are helping neighbors nourish one another
While fighting food waste and food insecurity, these grassroots mutual-aid projects also aim to bring communities closer together BY ALEX LASALVIA AUGUST 29, 2024 A curious sight is becoming more common in cities throughout America and abroad: refrigerators outside on the sidewalk, often adorned with colorful murals and posters inviting people to “take what you need,…
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Hundreds of Boston-area hotel workers go on strike
Wages, pensions, work rules and insurance benefits are the key issues. By Kaitlin McKinley Becker and Erin Logan • Published September 1, 2024 • Updated on September 1, 2024 at 11:32 pm To watch video report, Click Here. Nearly a thousand hotel workers in Boston are on strike this weekend after their existing contracts expired, with no sign of any new negotiations during one of…
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Harvard’s Black enrollment dips after US Supreme Court bars affirmative action
By Joseph Ax September 11, 2024 1:48 PM CDT The percentage of Black students in Harvard University’s freshman class dropped by more than a fifth following a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that barred colleges from using race as a factor in admissions, according to data released by the school on Wednesday. The Class of 2028…
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Wrongfully convicted man awarded $50M in lawsuit against City of Chicago, police detectives
By Nate Rodgers Published September 9, 2024 5:28pm CDT To watch video report, Click Here. Wrongfully convicted Chicago man awarded $50M in lawsuit Marcel Brown, who spent nearly a decade in prison for a murder he did not commit, was awarded $50 million by a federal jury on Monday in his lawsuit against the City of…
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French fan support at Paralympics gives athletes hope for future of disability sport
Win or lose, the French fans are turning out and supporting the more than 4,000 Paralympians competing in Paris, especially their own team By ANNA LICASTRO September 3, 2024, 9:59 AM To watch video report, Click Here. PARIS — It’s the end of the second set of a women’s sitting volleyball match between the United States…
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Disney no longer magical to guests denied Disability Access Service
By Andrew J. Campa Sept. 1, 2024 6:30 AM PT Some Disney fans feel betrayed by changes to popular disability pass Eight-year-old Noah Roland lasted less than two hours inside Disney World’s Magic Kingdom one June afternoon before suffering an autistic meltdown. Days earlier, he was denied Disney’s Disability Access Service pass, intended to help disabled individuals wait…
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Kansas Legal Services helped Navy veteran, attacked by pirates, secure disability benefits
By: Anna Kaminski – September 3, 2024 8:45 am TOPEKA — When pirates attacked Leah Delamarter and her U.S. Naval crewmates at sea, somewhere between the east African countries of Djibouti and Somalia in 2009, she suffered injuries to her central nervous system that caused lifelong damage to the right side of her body. She looks back on…
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Study: Individuals with pre-existing disabilities had long COVID and much higher rates than peers
by University of Kansas September 3, 2024 The COVID-19 pandemic has been especially hard on individuals with disabilities. New research from the University of Kansas shows that this population is also experiencing long COVID at significantly higher rates than the general population, which exacerbates existing barriers to accessing care. Researchers from KU’s Institute for Health and…
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