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Today at 1:00 PM, Governor Baker, Lt. Governor Polito, and I made several announcements pertaining to the state’s reopening process and sector specific guidance. These include:   Phase 3, Step 2: Effective March 1st, the Commonwealth will move forward into Phase 3, Step 2. This will reopen: Indoor performance venues such as concert halls, theaters,…

It is a dream of generations of computer practitioners that they don’t have to debug software failures. The debugging becomes even more daunting in multi-core era since concurrency issues highly depend on a specific task interleaving that is extremely difficult to reproduce. Due to such reasons, programmers generally spend 75% of their working time on…

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact our communities, the need for socioeconomic recovery strategies remains a top priority for us all. The public health measures necessary to mitigate a higher death toll have also led to a reduction in labor participation, employment, worker productivity and overall production. Like other municipalities, the city of Holyoke…

Thinking back to January 2020, it is difficult to imagine just how trivial the concerns I had on my plate that month would seem once March, then April and then May rolled around. I’ve resisted thinking about 2020 as some sort of gift with silver linings of any sort because the devastation that the year…

At this time last year, I’m sure that no one could have predicted the year that lay ahead. However, before we thankfully turn the page on 2020, we want to express our sincere appreciation to those who have worked so hard to deal with the new landscape that COVID-19 has created. All health and medical…

The state could move proceedings from the Roderick Ireland Courthouse in the city’s downtown to the former Eastfield Mall movie theaters, which provide more space for social distancing and precautions against the spread of COVID-19 Chuck Breidenbach, managing director of mall owner MDC Retail Properties Group, said Monday the state has expressed a desire to…

Call me an eternal optimist, but I think some very good things are going to happen for local communities in 2021. To start, one of the things that gives me great hope is our demonstrated capabilities as a city to continue managing what has been the worst global pandemic in over 100 years. From a…

For each challenge presented to us in 2020, I am convinced that 2021 will provide an opportunity. One year ago today, none of us could have imagined the struggles, worries and loss that we were about to experience. But today I think it’s clear that we are poised to make a comeback. And it’s already…

2020 was a year like no other. It brought health challenges, economic uncertainty and social justice issues that remain top priorities today. It underscored the need for us to work together as a community to take care of each other. At Health New England, our mission is to improve the health and lives of the…