Binyamin Appelbaum is one of the more fair-minded and accurate reporters at the New York Times. For an example of his best work, one might look back to his reporting from Hazleton, Pennsylvania in October of 2016.
So it was particularly dismaying to read Appelbaum's dispatch earlier this month in the Times, under the headline "Trump Tax Plan Will Not Bolster Growth, Economists Say."
Some people are worth saving, and some people aren't.
That's the message of a new line item in the Massachusetts state budget proposing to spend $400,000 on Samaritans, a suicide prevention organization that provides a hotline for people thinking about ending their lives.
