Must-Reads
Today on Beacon Hill
Gov. Charlie Baker on WGBH's Morning Edition with Joe Mathieu
Executive Office of Health & Human Services Public Hearing
Ask the Mayor with Mayor Marty Walsh on 89.7 Boston Public Radio
Conversation with Dr. Mark Keroack, President & CEO of Baystate Health, hosted by Sen. Eric Lesser
Joint Committee on Consumer Protection & Professional Licensure: Public Hearing
Quote of the Day
“I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute,” Trump said during Thursday’s coronavirus press briefing. “And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets inside the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that.”
News by Category
Beltway Politics
Business
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Treading water: Small businesses, local nonprofits fight to stay afloat
Boston Business Journal
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Cambridge biotech to return its PPP loan
Boston Business Journal
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Boston’s cultural institutions hit hard times amid coronavirus pandemic
Boston Globe
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CEOs prepare for long transition back to their offices
Boston Globe
Cannabis & Psychedelics
Education
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HCC laying off 33 part-time employees
Gazette Net
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Berkshire County Superintendents Respond To Unprecedented School Year
WAMC
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How are community college students different?
Commonwealth Magazine
Environment
Federal
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Neal, McGovern lead debates on new $484B aid package, oversight committee
Gazette Net
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Federal rescue money eases coronavirus financial woes for some families, but others slip through the cracks
Boston Globe
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Administration considers leveraging emergency coronavirus loan to force Postal Service changes
Boston Globe
Gaming
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Lack of sports doesn’t stop DraftKings from going public
Boston.com
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DraftKings starts trading Friday
Boston Business Journal
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Casinos, Regulators Look for Lessons From Macau
State House News Service
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DraftKings set to go public on Friday
Boston Globe
Health Care
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Massachusetts doctor who treated coronavirus patients is now on a ventilator, receiving plasma
Boston Herald
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Tech from MIT may allow caregivers to monitor coronavirus patients from a distance
Boston Globe
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‘They fought this and they won’: Hospital workers applaud, play songs as coronavirus patients finally go home
Boston Globe
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Brigham and Women’s nurse who survived coronavirus released from hospital; vows to return to job
Boston Globe
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Mass. Congressional Members Fear Denials Of Medical Deferral Of Deportations Amid Crisis
WBUR
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This nurse’s friends were skeptical about coronavirus. Then she drove north to work at MGH
Boston Globe
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The robot will see you now
Boston Globe
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Coronavirus Diagnoses In Staff Drop By Half After Boston Hospital Requires Masks For All
WBUR
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COVID-19 Hits Elder Care Facilities In Mass. The Hardest
WBUR
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Trauma On The Pandemic's Front Line Leaves Health Workers Reeling
New England Public Radio
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Nurse frustrated with mask directives
Commonwealth Magazine
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Dr. Lee: We’re busy but in good shape
Commonwealth Magazine
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COVID-19 fear keeping ill people away from ERs
Commonwealth Magazine
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Hospitals to Patients: We’re Open for Business
State House News Service
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Experts Optimistic Crisis Care Standards Won’t be Activated
State House News Service
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Charlie Baker: Non-coronavirus patients avoiding hospitals ‘out of fear’
Boston Herald
Housing
Human Services
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Extended Closures Could Mean Some Mass. Day Cares Never Reopen
WBUR
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In Lawrence, a soup kitchen takes its food on the road
Boston Globe
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Can we hold on to the lesson of communal responsibility that the coronavirus pandemic is teaching?
Boston Globe
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Low-income and laid-off veterans struggle to access state benefits created for them
Boston Globe
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Boston city councilors call for more equity in coronavirus relief funds
Boston Herald
Labor
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Self-employed workers file for unemployment benefits
Gloucester Times
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A scientific experiment in going back to work amid coronavirus pandemic
Boston Globe
Legislative
Local Government
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Springfield city councilors say Western Massachusetts shortchanged on coronavirus testing, materials from state
The Republican
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Greenfield providing masks to retailers, residents
The Recorder
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Haverhill Board of Health allows vehicle parades, with restrictions
The Eagle Tribune
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Milton looks at virtual town meeting
Patriot Ledger
Politics
Public Health
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Killing coronavirus: Summer sun and heat may have ‘powerful’ effect, says DHS official
Boston Herald
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Massachusetts House bill seeks to root out racial, geographic disparities from coronavirus pandemic
The Republican
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Worcester is at peak, head of UMass says
Worcester Telegram
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Coronavirus shutdowns could last several more weeks, Marty Walsh says
Boston Herald
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Airflow a concern as restaurants, businesses plan to reopen post-pandemic
Boston Herald
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No, warm weather will not kill the coronavirus
Boston Globe
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New MA Coronavirus Laws On Evictions, Nursing Homes
Brookline Patch
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State COVID-19 data show Holyoke, Northampton hardest-hit area communities
Gazette Net
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Tests Find Nearly 14% Of NYers Already Had COVID-19
WAMC
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Now Recovered, Dr. Monica Bharel Weighs In After Her Own Bout With COVID-19
WBUR
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Should those with antibodies get a digital pass to go back to work?
Boston Globe
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Massachusetts COVID-19 Confirmed Cases See Largest One-Day Increase Yet
New England Public Radio
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We need more than a COVID-19 vaccine
Boston Globe
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Reopening the Economy Under COVID-19: States Plot a Way Back
Governing
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Health Commissioner Describes “Frightening” COVID-19 Battle
State House News Service
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Mass. reports new daily high in coronavirus cases amid thousands of additional tests
Boston Globe
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Face Off: Pro-, anti-coronavirus shutdown protests staged in front of Charlie Baker’s house
Boston Herald