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LETTERS
Hold off on implementing state’s charitable tax deduction
The benefits would will go overwhelmingly to the highest-income households and would do little to increase giving to Massachusetts charitable organizations.
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Breaking the waste chain, from trash in Mass. to landfills in N.H. to packaging in Maine
We need to stop producing so much garbage. We also need to deal better with the waste we do create.
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Those opposed to changes on exam schools are missing a key piece: equity
When every school in BPS educates every child equally and when hidden bias and prejudice are uncovered and dealt with, then maybe a lottery would work for these advanced academic institutions of learning.
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There’s value in remaining open to Americans visiting Russia
The United States and Russia remain the world’s nuclear superpowers. Mutual communication will always be requisite to understanding, cooperation, and security.
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A summer camp closed abruptly — it’s not the end of the world
If there is a culprit here, it is the coronavirus pandemic.
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A nasty strain of vaccine resistance among some Catholic parents
Barney Frank once said that there are some who seem to believe that "life begins at conception and ends at birth." This vaccine refusal is a perfect example.
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In bridging partisan divide, project’s teen participants point the way forward
The more ordinary citizens can listen to and understand diverse viewpoints as well as see each other as fellow humans, the better chance we have to lessen the country’s ingrained partisanship.
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As climate crisis reveals, we’re lousy at dealing with slow-onset emergencies
The fact that we are in a climate crisis at all speaks volumes to how governments, nations, and people process slow-onset emergencies. Simply put, we don’t.