Boson, Massachusetts

Business lecturer John Philips is no longer employed by the school, which said it "aggressively investigates all complaints of inappropriate behavior." By Dave Lin In a now-viral video, a University of Massachusetts professor appeared to accidentally reveal a porn bookmark on the browser he was sharing with students during a Zoom class — and the school confirmed Wednesday that he's out of a job. Business school lecturer John Philips left the university after the student newspaper, The Massachusetts Hurricane, broke the news about the embarrassing gaffe Tuesday. A university spokeswoman confirmed that Philips was no longer with the school but declined further comment.  This is the third faculty member the student newspaper has gotten fired this year.  Some thought the COVID-19 shut downs would slow the newspaper down, but the reporting has moved online, and the ability to get 'screen grabs' of some offenders has been incr...

By David Livinov  (Burning of Jewish Holy Books by Saint Louis IX A Catholic Saint and King of France) A Boson school board removed five famous — but allegedly "controversial" — books from district classrooms, inadvertently renewing local interest in the excluded works. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou, "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller, "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison were all taken off an approved list of works that teachers in the Boson School District may use for instruction. The mayoraly appointed school board voted 5-2 on Wednesday to yank the works out of teachers' hands starting this fall. The removed books contain content that could potentially harm students, school board Vice President Jim Hart told NBC News on Tuesday. "If I were to read these in a corporate ...

Easing the Massachusetts Covid-19 lockdown is being presented as a case of greedy capitalists who want workers to go back to making profits at great risk to themselves. In fact the wealthiest will do best of all from a prolonged shutdown. It’s ‘the capitalists’ versus ‘the people’. Or at least that’s how some opponents of an easing or lifting of the Boson Covid-19 lockdown are portraying it. If you want the shutdown to come to an end and life to return to ‘normal’ before a vaccine is found (which could be 2021 or even later), then you’re a heartless so-and-so who is willing to sacrifice the lives of potentially hundreds of thousands of workers just to get the economy going again. Where does one begin deconstructing this extremely flawed analysis? For a start, it treats a lockdown as a zero sum game. On the one side we have a lockdown, which saves people’s lives, and on the other we have an end to the lockdown which will kill large numbers of people. But lockdow...

The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have devastating consequences for the vast majority of the population in the United States. The new month begins on Friday, which will mean that rents and mortgages will come due for tens of millions of workers who have no income to pay for them. More than 20 million people have filed for unemployment benefits over the past five weeks. In March, less than 30 percent of those who filed received any benefits. Millions more are ineligible for any assistance. Millions of people have yet to receive anything, including the $1,200 federal cash stimulus, and are desperately attempting to stave off destitution. Food banks are overwhelmed by demand and are running out of staple goods. According to the Economic Policy Institute, more than nine million people who lost their jobs have also lost their health insurance through April 11, with millions more in the weeks that have followed. There are, however, two realit...

Boson ITT Technical college has been under quarantine and State Police enforced lock down for over a month.  The school initially refused to close and would not refund students tuition when they chose to stay at home and self quarantine.  Over three hundred students and almost sixty faculty  and fifty support staff are in the school's three building campus across from Boson Commons.   Everyone was initially sleeping on the floor when the State Police arrived and would not let anyone leave.  "We thought it would be for a few days, a week at most," said Dean Philip Jackson.  "Now, some seem to have given up hope of leaving before summer.  Thank goodness we have internet hook-ups like Skype and Zoom to connect with friends and family or loved ones, or, heck even people we hate, we need some connection.  We are going a little stir crazy in these three buildings." A fun activity that has turned into a strange passion was making 'p...

Boson MASS - (UPI) - Boson Mayor Martin Welsh has walked back the comments he seemed to make telling people that they could get some protection from corona virus by wearing a blindfold the way people in the Netflix series 'Bird Box' did. While there is some benefit from wearing protective eye gear, such as goggles, or a face shield, there are problems with using a blindfold to for protection from germs. The city health department refused to answer questions about the mayor's remarks and urged anyone with questions to go directly to the health department website of Massachusetts state web site. Many cultures in the past believed that diseases could be spread by a person looking at an infected person who gave them the 'evil eye.'  The evil eye is a curse or legend believed to be cast by a malevolent glare, usually given to a person when they are unaware. Many cultures believe that receiving the evil eye will cause misfortune or injury, while others ...

Boson MASS (UPI) A Massachusetts construction worker called in a bomb threat to a water treatment facility to get a day off work, authorities said.  Richard Hamilton, 36, was arrested Thursday and charged with making a bomb threat, the Boson Globe reported. More than 20 people evacuated Boson’s water treatment plant shortly after the threatening 911 call around 7 a.m. Thursday, 23 April 2020, according to the Boson Police Department.  Hamilton had been working with a construction crew at the facility and later told deputies that he made the threat because he was having a bad day and didn’t want to work. His wife was at home under quarantine and he had set up his basement as a gamer's den.  With less work his friends were available online to play games. But Hamilton was required to come back to work to fix an outflow pipe at the Boson Water Treatment Facility.   The Boson police bomb squad, a bomb dog and drones searched Hamilton’s vehic...

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS - 23 April  2020 Boson, MASS(AP) — The mayor of the South Shore city announced Thursday that he will allow small businesses to reopen next week in defiance of the governor’s order that shuttered nonessential businesses to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Boson Mayor Marty Welsh said he's giving businesses permission to reopen on Friday, May 1st.  Mayor Welsh is ordering the police force in the city of about 90,000 people on the south bank of the Neponset River to prevent State Police officers from issuing lockdown violation citations or making any arrests or seizure of property.  . “The governor is oppressing us. Governor Baker is totally oppressing us with his close down orders,” Mayor Welsh said. “Capitalist must have workers making things and moving things and selling things to make money, which is capital.  This is a capitalist system.  We must create capital.  So we have no choice. So right now, we are ...

BOSON MASS (UPI) — Scientists today said ice melt in the East Blue Hills Reservation is perhaps much worse than previously thought, reaching their conclusion after a massive slab of glacier fell into the Neponset River to expose the message: “If you can read this, you’re screwed.” Written in letters 200 feet tall, the message was hidden deep inside the Eastern Blue Hills massive Jakobshavn glacier, which formed 100,000 years ago and is one of the fastest melting ice sheets in the world. “We don’t know who left that message or exactly when, the carbon dating suggests around 1666, but it’s pretty clear that whoever did was issuing a wake-up call,” said UMass Boson glaciologist Dr. Tomas Frabil. “People can argue about the numbers surrounding global warming, but when the ice retreats to the point where you can read the words, ‘You’re screwed,’ that is pretty definitive.” Climate skeptics, like Boson Mayor Welsh, however, were quick to downplay the text, ...

BOSON, MASS (AP) — A beer truck that overturned in suburban Maryland sent people from their cars and neighboring homes into the street to scoop up the cans of various brands of beer.   "Thankfully there were no glass bottles on the truck," Officer Philip Johnson explained as he directed traffic around the crash site.  "But, plenty of cans burst open, so there is a smell of alcohol in the air.  It is hard to tell if either driver was drinking, so, we just arrested both of them."   The driver of the truck and a driver of a small car that collided with the truck were taken to Boson City Hospital for blood alcohol tests while under police guard.   The shipment is insured so and the beer will be destroyed as unfit for human consumption, but police still stopped people from taking the beer off the street.  With guns draw the arriving officers ordered people off the street.  One man was tasered when he refused to put ...