It demonstrates convincingly that without strict enforcement and meaningful financial deterrents, regulatory thresholds exist only on paper while residents pay the price.
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Opinion: A once-in-a-generation opportunity: Getting Fall River’s waterfront right for everyone
A waterfront built with extraordinary public investment should reflect the needs of everyone in Fall River — not just the well-off.
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Opinion: It’s time to address mental health, suicide in heavy industry
Key recommendations include peer support training, increased mental health resources, and postvention services after a critical incident or loss.
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Essay: The regatta on Buzzards Bay is a sailor’s dream
The New Bedford Junior Regatta on Buzzards Bay encourages kids to fall in love with sailing — as a way to race against the winds, or just as a hobby.
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Opinion: SAVE America Act – When election security becomes voter suppression
Americans should not have to overcome new bureaucratic hurdles to exercise one of our most fundamental constitutional rights.
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Opinion: Keeping the lights on with offshore wind
Offshore wind farms maintain energy affordability and pull in the direction of local reinvestment.
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Essay: Bristol Community College training first generation of offshore wind workers
New director of the National Offshore Wind Institute at BCC: “Offshore wind is more than an energy source. It is an opportunity.”
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Opinion: Increased pipeline capacity won’t solve our problems
But it will increase profit margins for energy companies while making us more dependent on their product.
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Opinion: High energy costs in Mass. are about constraint, not volatility
The underlying problem is that New England’s energy infrastructure has not kept pace with demand, leaving the region vulnerable in extreme cold.
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Opinion: Urine diversion could help save aging sewer systems, solve runoff issues
Municipal departments, clean water groups and others are working to create policies to separate urine from other household waste and recycle its nutrients.
