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Emergency room wait times in Massachusetts are longer than national average

Despite a national reputation for excellence, Massachusetts hospitals lag behind the rest of the nation in emergency room wait times – by as much as 10 minutes in some instances, according to federal data for 2015 reviewed by the NewBostonPost. The greatest discrepancy is among local hospitals with high-volume ERs – between

Massachusetts

Opioid overdose epidemic comes into focus for NE governors

BOSTON – Sharing a table at Harvard Medical School in Boston, New England's six governors pledged Tuesday to crack down on drug trafficking and share data from state prescription-monitoring programs. Levels of optimism varied among the four Democrats and two Republicans on the panel, as did the finger of

crime

Study: Teen marijuana use and crime decrease as states legalize

The number of teens using and suffering from problems related to marijuana is falling at the same time more states are legalizing marijuana.

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Trump details fundraising for veterans’ charities

NEW YORK (AP) — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump provided details Tuesday of the charities that received millions of dollars from a veterans' fundraiser he held earlier this year following sustained pressure from media outlets trying to account for the promised funds. Trump told reporters at a news conference

Massachusetts

Massachusetts lands 3 cities on ‘most dangerous’ for U.S. drivers list

It appears Bay Staters pay a hefty price and run a greater risk than most whenever they step into their vehicles. According to a recent report published by Nerdwallet, Massachusetts has three of the 20 most dangerous cities in the country for motorists.

Massachusetts

Walsh taps DNC data expert to lead Boston analytics team

BOSTON – City Hall is about to get even more data-driven as Boston Mayor Marty Walsh named Andrew Therriault, a Democratic National Committee employee, as his first chief data officer. Therriault, the director of data science at the DNC in Washington, will lead Walsh's data analytics team, which combines

government

We need to know the algorithms the government uses to make important decisions about us

In criminal justice systems, credit markets, employment arenas, higher education admissions processes and even social media networks, data-driven algorithms now drive decision-making in ways that touch our economic, social and civic lives. These software systems rank, classify, associate or filter information, using human-crafted or data-induced rules that allow for consistent

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Boston workforce breakdown reveals imbalances

BOSTON – Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, a Democrat and a former labor leader, presides over a workforce where a lopsided portion of the jobs are held by whites and the median pay for women is 20 percent less than for men, data released Tuesday show. The demographic breakdown of the municipal