Massachusetts is burning through money that never should have been allocated in the first place.
In February 2021, President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act into law. It was an inflation-expanding stimulus package that, among other provisions, gave $350 billion to state, local, and tribal governments.
NewBostonPost is publishing a regular weekly column by local religious leaders on Friday. This week's article is below.
On April 14, 1828, Noah Webster, age 70, had his long-awaited American Dictionary of the English Language copyrighted and ready for publication. The year before, when finishing the work, he wrote from Cambridge, England: "When I had come to the last word, I was seized with a trembling which made it somewhat difficult to hold my pen steady for writing. The cause seems to have been the thought that I might not then live to finish the work, or the thought that I was so near the end of my labors."
