Time To Start Using Shark-Friendly Language, Environmentalist Says

Time To Start Using Shark-Friendly Language, Environmentalist Says

"Shark attacks," "shark-infested waters," shark "invasion," and shark "infiltration" should all be jettisoned as terms to describe huge increases in sharks off the coast of Cape Cod, a pro-shark environmentalist says.

"Sharks are in desperate need of conservation and protection …" but instead have been subject to "decades of irrational fearmongering," writes Reginald Walden in a guest column in The Cape Cod Times.

Draft-Kennedy Movement Pushing Joe III To Take On Ed Markey for U.S. Senate
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Draft-Kennedy Movement Pushing Joe III To Take On Ed Markey for U.S. Senate

Matthew McDonald

A movement to draft U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III to run for Ed Markey's U.S. Senate seat has put together a web site and Facebook page.

Kennedy (D-Newton) so far says he's running in 2020 for re-election to the Fourth Congressional District, not for Markey's seat.

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