Lori Trahan, local leaders celebrate Community Project Funding for affordable childcare in Fitchburg
By: Shane Rhodes
FITCHBURG — In partnership with federal, state and local leadership, Making Opportunity Count is set to construct a new early childhood education and care facility.
Joined by U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan and other local leaders, MOC and the city celebrated a $750,000… Read more »
Behavioral, mental health center to open in 2023
By: Melanie Gilbert
BILLERICA — The Middlesex County Restoration Center, a proposed crisis-diversion facility, is closer to being realized, said members of the commission who have been working since 2018 to develop the innovative mental and behavioral health intervention project.
Town Manager John Curran hosted Monday’s roundtable,… Read more »
Democrats' pre-midterm messaging focuses on proposed federal law to restrict abortions
By: Angi Gonzalez
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, Democrats have consistently reminded constituents that they can defend abortion rights at the polls in November. This week, they are renewing that push after a prominent Republican proposed a nationwide ban on most abortions after 15… Read more »
New England Democrats request extra funding for federal energy assistance program
By: Kim Riley
With winter approaching and energy prices remaining high, more federal funds are needed for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), Democratic representatives from the New England Congressional Delegation told appropriations leaders in Congress.
In their Sept. 14 letter sent… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan On Hand for Delivery of $7.6 Million Grant to Replace MBTA’s S. Elm St. Bridge
By: Megan Hemenway
Local, state and federal officials were on hand Thursday for the formal delivery of a $7.6 million grant to replace the railroad overpass at South Elm Street.
As only WHAV reported Aug. 19, the money comes from a U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal-State… Read more »
EforAll Receives a More than $200,000 Federal Grant to Open Haverhill Site This Fall
By: WHAV Staff
Lowell-based Entrepreneurship for All, EforAll for short, plans to celebrate next week its receipt of a $242,779 federal grant to open a site in Haverhill.
EforAll, a nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate economic and social impact through inclusive entrepreneurship, said the… Read more »
Meta should follow Google, delete abortion location data
By: Ben Brody and Hirsh Chitkara
Despite its relative silence on the most contentious issue in American politics, the social media industry has finally revealed it can be pushed by Democrats in power to do more to protect people seeking abortions. Now the question is what else lawmakers, state attorneys general and… Read more »
Post-Roe, House Democrats want to know how Messenger protects metadata
By: Ben Brody
A group of more than a dozen House Democrats is asking Meta, AT&T and other companies whether they're limiting disclosure of metadata that could result in prosecutions against users who seek abortions.
In a letter sent Wednesday, the lawmakers asked Messenger, WhatsApp, AT&T, Verizon, Apple… Read more »
Lori Trahan: Why I voted ‘yes’ on the Inflation Reduction Act
By: Lori Trahan
When I’m deciding how to vote on legislation in Washington, there’s one question I always ask: Would this help families here in Massachusetts like the one I grew up in? When it comes to the Inflation Reduction Act, the health care savings headed families’ way made answering that question easy.
Growing up,… Read more »
Amazon, Oracle Say Fears of Abortion-Data Sales Are Overblown
By: Brody Ford
Amazon.com Inc., Oracle Corp. and other data providers pressed by a group of US lawmakers about how they sell mobile phone location data offered assurances that the information couldn’t be used to track individuals seeking abortion services.
US Representative Lori Trahan, one of the House… Read more »
