An academic's ideas about what the future might hold inspired Gov. Charlie Baker to invite him to speak to Canadian premiers and New England governors.
Speaking to the international assembly in Boston on Monday, MIT School of Engineering Dean Ian Waitz said in two decades or more the technology of electricity production could change profoundly.
BOSTON — Maine Gov. Paul LePage, a second-term Republican who has become a lightning rod in the debate over drugs and race, did not shy away Monday from his suggestion that black and Hispanic drug dealers from other parts of New England are fueling the opioid epidemic in his home state, expanding his list of exporters to include two Massachusetts border cities – Lowell and Lawrence.
LePage, visiting the Bay State for a conference with other New England governors and Canadian premiers, linked the heroin and fentanyl epidemic in his state to drug dealers crossing the border from Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York.
