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Ball Game Manufacturers React To Being Banned At Massachusetts Beaches
Going to the beach in Massachusetts sometime soon? If you are, just be careful about what activities you participate in. If it involves a ball, it might not be legal.
Culture
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Church Services Re-Open All Over Massachusetts, But Not In Somerville
As most churches in Massachusetts have started holding public services again, Somerville's mayor has told church leaders there to continue limiting gatherings to 10 people. Mayor Joseph Curtatone is justifying the delay on grounds of safety during the coronavirus emergency. He points out that Somerville is more densely
Culture
Stock Market Bulls Signal More Rapid Recovery Than Press, Public-Health Panickers
What accounts for the apparently dramatic mismatch between the stock market and the economy? Unemployment is the worst it has been since the Great Depression. Goldman Sachs says it could hit 25%. Gross domestic product could fall by 42.8%, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Commentary
Don’t Let Coronavirus Carry Off Our Culture, Too
Many weekend afternoons, and some weekday evenings, every year from April through October, a group of people, young and old, male and female, black and white, advanced and beginner, meet to play tennis, shoot the breeze, trash talk, and sometimes share food and drink at our local park. Our family
Commentary
Is the ‘Party’ in Houseparty App the Chinese Communists?
For all the attention paid to the boom in use of the videoconferencing app Zoom, the big winner of the coronavirus lockdown so far may be a less work-oriented, more social Zoom competitor called Houseparty. Bloomberg News reports that Houseparty has "been one of the most popular social-networking apps
Commentary
A Message From Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
Citizens of the … republic … for now: During the current COVID-19 pandemic I have been criticized for my recent attempts to keep you ungrateful lot safe. This is unfortunate.
Editorials
What Churches Must Do on Good Friday
Christians commemorate the suffering and death of Jesus on Good Friday, which Christians believe attains redemption for the sins of mankind and makes it possible for human beings to go to Heaven. It is at once the saddest and most hope-filled day of the year. Sad because of the torture
Commentary
Coronavirus or Not, We Need A Return To Sanity
Ben Franklin was a teen when the plague struck Boston. His mother, having endured the plague several times before, was keen to the fact that the first remedy against this recurrent illness was not to panic. Many would get sick, for sure, but not most. Some would die, but by
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