The city of Boston said it would begin removing tents at the homeless encampment at Mass and Cass. Are forcible removals like this legal? Professor Daniel Medwed, legal analyst for GBH News, weighs in.
For too long, "the United States has often been on the sidelines during international discussion of water challenges," writes Professor Martha Davis in a piece for WBUR's Cognoscenti.
Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab, comments for The Boston Globe on the ongoing arrests and tent clearings at Mass. and Cass: "It’s a way of cosmetically improving the situation while also churning very vulnerable people through a very harmful system.”
Kelly Cooke ’19 is part of a class of 10 female officials who will work games this season in the American Hockey League. “My goal has always been to referee in the Olympics,” she says. “Hopefully, that will be in the cards.”
“In cases like this, the credibility of people with a substance abuse disorder is often called into question,” Professor Margo Lindauer '07, director of Northeastern Law’s Domestic Violence Institute tells The Boston Globe. “How many times did the biological mother reach out… only to be roadblocked?”
“We’re in like the 1950s in tobacco years when it comes to the gambling industry," Mark Gottlieb '93, executive director of Northeastern Law's Public Health Advocacy Institute tells MASSLive.
The Boston Globe looks to the Reverend Willie Bodrick II ’20 and Professor Daniel Medwed for their reactions to a new sate report that analyzes 11 months of Mass. traffic stops in 2020.
In his monthly column for the Daily Hampshire Gazette, William Newman ’75 writes about the issues at stake in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, a pending Supreme Court case related to the First Amendment.