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Social media: Readers react to stories on charter school, housing and Keith Hovan
Readers react on social media to stories on charter school, housing and Keith Hovan.
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Commentary: My bill would bring transparency to show cause hearings
“People have a right to know how our government is operating, particularly within the judicial system.”
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Commentary: Innovators Charter School would give students a head start on college degree
We have designed the region’s first wall-to-wall early college model, meaning every single student goes to college while in high school. Durfee High School and New Bedford High School do not offer the wall-to-wall experience.
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Opinion: OK, you’re sworn in … now comes the hard part
Helping people get a pothole filled, their trash picked up, or their child on a school bus, is among the best work you can do. It should produce the satisfying feeling of a job well done. That’s why you signed up for this, I hope.
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Social media: Readers react to The Light’s coverage of Keith Hovan’s magistrate hearing
Here’s how some readers have reacted to The Light’s latest coverage of Southcoast Health CEO Keith Hovan’s ammunition hearing.
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Lens: Chilly morning on the New Bedford waterfront
You think it’s tough to shovel out a parking space after 10 inches of snow? Try unloading 40 tons of fresh-caught groundfish on the windy New Bedford waterfront.
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Poetry: Ode to New Bedford Whaling Museum’s Moby-Dick Marathon
We come from around the world, and wear flannel, woolens and Prada,
We speak English, e portugûes! and eat chowdah and massa sovada!
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Poetry before and after New Year’s arrival
Everett Hoagland, Professor Emeritus of English at UMass Dartmouth and New Bedford’s first poet laureate, offers two poems for the new year.
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Opinion: Readers comment on COVID-19, immigrant workers, city politics
We all wore masks at the beginning of the pandemic to protect ourselves and others. Inconvenient: Yes. Lifesaving: Absolutely!
