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Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has ordered all public and private schools in the state closed through the end of the school year.
The governor's announcement during a press conference Tuesday, April 21 had been hinted at in recent days.
The coronavirus pandemic has transformed the way we live, work, socialize, and educate our children. The pandemic has been an invisible adversary threatening people's health and livelihood. It has also provided a tremendous obstacle to candidates trying to gather nomination signatures to run for public office.
The nomination process in ordinary times is labor-intensive and time-consuming. It requires candidates and those working on their behalf to solicit signatures outside grocery stores, post offices, and in other public gathering areas. The process requires candidates to obtain signatures from their respective parties and unenrolled voters. Once a candidate feels confident the candidate has attained enough signatures that qualify as certifiable, the candidate then submits them to a local Town Clerk's office, which examines the signatures and may disqualify many of them for not matching those of registered voters.