"When you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty." — Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth (1758)
Did you know that, courtesy of citizens with a sense of foreboding, there is a version of the U.S. Debt Clock dedicated solely to the aggregate debts of Massachusetts (approximately $95.346 billion)? Or that Massachusetts, since 1989, has a statutory debt ceiling (pegged at $21.735 billion), that will likely be breached sometime next year?
MEDFIELD – On May 6, the Montrose School's class of 2016 will present a hand-painted mural that spans an entire wall of the cafeteria and features one very special former classmate as a remembrance from the community of her peers.
Under a blue sky and rolling green hills made up of the handprints of classmates, a young girl dressed for a Montrose soccer match runs across the sward, tugging a cluster of brightly colored balloons. The figure represents Elizabeth Schickel, who would've turned 18 that May week. But she died in February 2014 after a year-long fight with an aggressive brain tumor.
