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星期一, 3月 13, 2023
波士頓市長吳弭宣佈3/17起市府廣場擺出"藝術家市場"
麻州政府指派6人組成下任州警主管搜尋委員會
Healey-Driscoll Administration Announces Update on Search Process
for Massachusetts State Police Colonel
Search Committee to Guide Process and Partner with Executive
Search Firm
to Identify the Next Leader of the State Police
BOSTON – Today, the Healey-Driscoll Administration announced an update on the search process to identify the next Massachusetts State Police Colonel. The Administration has formed a six-member search committee, composed of diverse public safety professionals and community leaders with wide-ranging expertise, to guide a robust process to identify the new executive and administrative leader of the State Police.
The Committee will guide the
search process and partner with the International Association of Chiefs of
Police (IACP), the world’s largest and most influential professional
association for police leaders with vast experience identifying prospective
applicants for executive-level public safety roles.
Search Committee members include:
- Molly
Baldwin,
Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Roca
- Kevin
Burke,
Former Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety, former Essex County
District Attorney
- Gayle
Cameron,
Former Commissioner of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission,
retired Lieutenant Colonel of the New Jersey State Police
- Mark
Leahy, Executive
Director of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association, retired
police chief (Suffield, CT and Northborough, MA)
- Liam
Lowney, Executive
Director of the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance (MOVA)
- Natashia Tidwell, Litigation Group Member at Mintz, former federal prosecutor and Cambridge police officer
“The next Massachusetts State Police Colonel has a unique opportunity to enhance public safety across Massachusetts, build public trust and advance meaningful reforms,” said Governor Maura Healey. “We are grateful to the remarkable members of the search committee for their service and commitment to identifying strong applicants with the vision and values to lead the State Police into the future.”
“The selection of the Department’s future leader reflects a pivotal moment and transformative opportunity for the State Police and Massachusetts. Our administration is committed to conducting a comprehensive search that is thorough and expeditious,” said Lieutenant Governor Kimberley Driscoll. “We look forward to engaging with the search committee and appreciate their dedication to identifying highly qualified and diverse candidates.”
By law, the Governor appoints the colonel based upon the recommendation of the Secretary of EOPSS. The governing statute, Massachusetts law G.L. c. 22C Section 3, requires that the colonel be qualified by training and experience to direct the Department’s work. At the time of appointment, the colonel must have 10 years of full-time experience as a sworn law enforcement officer and five years of full-time experience in a senior administrative or supervisory position in a police force or a military body with law enforcement responsibilities. Once appointed, the colonel will become a uniformed member of the MSP. The colonel will also require certification from the Massachusetts POST Commission.
On February 17, 2023, the Healey-Driscoll
Administration appointed Lt. Colonel John Mawn
to serve as Interim Colonel, succeeding Colonel Christopher Mason
upon his retirement.
Search Committee member bios:
Molly Baldwin is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Roca. A graduate of UMass Amherst, Molly began her professional life as a youth worker and community organizer and soon founded Roca in 1988 for a small group of high-risk young people.
For 35 years, she has been a
tireless advocate, mentor, and community convener, reaching out to the young
people at the center of violence in Massachusetts’ most troubled urban
communities, and bringing together the major institutions, agencies, and
corporations affecting their lives. With the help of engaged institutions and
Roca’s committed staff, Baldwin’s efforts at Roca have helped over 25,000
young people make positive and profound changes in their lives.
Under Baldwin’s leadership, Roca’s Intervention Model has become one of the nation’s most effective interventions for young adults at critical risk. Baldwin holds a master’s degree in Education from Lesley University and honorary Ph.D. degrees from Salem State University and Lesley University. She was a 2020 recipient of the prestigious Heinz Award in the Human Condition category.
Kevin Burke’s five decades of public service includes several roles in Massachusetts state and county government. Burke served from 2007 to 2010 as the Secretary of Public Safety in the Patrick-Murray Administration after concluding his 24-year tenure as the Essex County District Attorney. As a legislator, Burke represented the 4th Essex District from 1975 to 1979 in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Connecticut and a law degree from Boston College.
Gayle Cameron is a former commissioner at the Massachusetts Gaming Commission (MGC) and retired Lieutenant Colonel of the New Jersey State Police. Appointed in 2012 as one of the initial commissioners and reappointed in 2016, Cameron was instrumental in successfully building a new and sustainable public agency while simultaneously implementing a multifaceted expanding gaming law. Before becoming an MGC commissioner, Cameron served in New Jersey State Police (NJSP) for 28 years, beginning as a Road Duty Trooper in 1980 and rising through the ranks to Lieutenant Colonel, Deputy Superintendent, retiring in 2008 from NJSP’s second highest rank.
Cameron was appointed as a Commissioner to the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA). She was responsible for policy decisions around creating appropriate law enforcement standards. In this role, she worked to strengthen crime prevention, solidify interagency cooperation, and improve community confidence in the agency.
Cameron is a founding member and past president of New Jersey Woman in Law Enforcement (NJWLE) from 2004-2011. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Health and Physical Education from Bridgewater State College and a Master’s Degree in Education from Seton Hall University.
Chief Mark K. Leahy, Ret. has served as the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association since 2016. He began his law enforcement career in 1976, when he was appointed as a Connecticut State Trooper, retiring in 1997 at the rank of Captain. He went on to serve as the Chief of Police in both Suffield, CT and Northborough, MA until his retirement from Northborough in 2016.
A Past President (2011) of the Mass. Chiefs, Chief Leahy sat on the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission – ultimately becoming its President – and on the Commonwealth’s Municipal Police Training Committee for eleven years. He sat on the Executive Board of the New England Association of Chiefs of Police; the Police Administration Committee for the International Association of Chiefs of Police; and on the Massachusetts Gaming Commission’s Public Safety Committee. He is currently the Chair of the Executive Director’s Section of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
Liam Lowney is Executive Director of the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance (MOVA). He was appointed to this position in 2012 by the Victim and Witness Assistance Board. In this role, he leads the state agency’s administration of state and federal funding, training for service professionals, and policy efforts on behalf of crime victims.
In January 2007, he was appointed as the Chief of Victim and Witness Services by the Massachusetts Attorney General, overseeing the office’s services to crime victims and the Massachusetts Victim Compensation Program. Lowney began working in the field of Victim Services in the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office in 1998 as a Victim Witness Advocate.
Throughout his career, Lowney has advocated for policy changes that impact crime victims, including gun safety legislation, updates to the victim compensation and assistance statute, and Massachusetts’ first Human Trafficking Law.
In 1994, Liam’s sister Shannon Lowney was murdered while working at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Brookline, MA. Since then, Liam has served as a survivor advocate and spokesman to addressing violence, responding to mass violence, training professionals and empowering survivors.
Natashia Tidwell is Litigation Group Member at Mintz, focusing on white collar defense and government investigations with a special emphasis on assisting educational institutions in identifying and managing internal and external challenges. She leverages her experience as a former federal prosecutor and police officer to provide pragmatic counsel to schools on federal and state constitutional issues and to advise individuals and institutions on government enforcement actions. Her clients include colleges, universities, secondary schools, cities and towns, hospitals, and other organizations.
In connection with the nationwide focus on social justice following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Tidwell led many investigations of alleged discriminatory conduct by schools, local police departments, corporations, and other organizations. As the lead monitor in Ferguson, Missouri, Tidwell is providing oversight on city police department and municipal court reforms stemming from a civil rights investigation by the US Department of Justice. In Newark, New Jersey, Tidwell serves as a subject matter consultant for the monitoring team instituting court-ordered reforms within the city’s police force.
Tidwell previously served as counsel at a global law firm and a Boston-based law firm and as an Associate Professor of New England Law | Boston. Before attending law school and while earning her JD, Tidwell worked as a police officer for the Cambridge Police Department in Massachusetts, where she rose through the ranks to become the department's first female lieutenant.
新英格蘭報業協會訂5/6頒洋基鵝毛筆獎表揚 Lincoln Millstein 等5新聞界人士
Yankee Quill Award
Honorees and Luncheon
Five New England journalists will receive the prestigious Yankee Quill award this spring for their contributions to the betterment of journalism in the six-state region.
Four current
journalists and one historical figure will be honored with the award on May 6,
2023, said George Geers, chair of the sponsoring Academy of New England
Journalists.
This year's Yankee Quill Award honorees are:
Anne Galloway, founder and editor-at-large of VTDigger, is honored for her contributions to Vermont journalism. Galloway founded the news site in 2009 after a long career in newspapers, including as Sunday editor of the Rutland Herald and Times Argus. VTDigger has grown from a $ 16,000-a-year nonprofit website with no employees to a $2.8 million nonprofit online news operation with a staff of 32. Galloway, who started her newspaper career at The Hardwick Gazette, has won numerous awards and changed the journalism landscape in Vermont and beyond. Mal Leary is being recognized as the connection between Maine residents and their state government for 45 years. He worked as a freelance correspondent for radio stations all across Maine and has also written for its major newspapers. His advocacy is so fierce and his knowledge of state law so deep, he has occasionally convinced state officials to squelch plans to introduce rules that would be antithetical to the public’s right to know. In recent years, Leary has extended his advocacy work to a national scale, serving as a president of the National Freedom of Information Coalition. Lincoln Millstein earns the Yankee Quill award for the major imprint that he has left on local journalism’s digital presence in New England, and far beyond. After serving as city editor, business editor, and managing editor for features at the Boston Globe, he co-founded Boston.com and shepherded it through its formative years as CEO. He helped build the newspaper industry’s first forays into serious digital news businesses. He went on to run digital for Hearst Newspapers and spearheaded industrywide digital initiatives including the Yahoo! Consortium and the industry’s first private digital advertising exchange. But what stands out the most is his undying excitement about tough journalism and great storytelling. Robert Bailey Thomas (1766-1846), founder of the Old Farmer’s Almanac, will receive the Yankee Quill award posthumously for his historic contribution to specialty weather and agriculture journalism. Thomas, who also served as editor for 54 years until his death in 1846, created a specialty New England publication that stands today as the oldest continuously published periodical in the United States. Distributed annually, it bloomed from a handful of subscribers in its first year to more than 3 million today. The Yankee Quill, which began in 1959, is bestowed annually by the Academy of New England Journalists through the auspices of the New England Society of News Editors. It is considered the highest individual honor awarded to newspaper, TV, radio, magazine, and other journalists in the six-state region. Winners are selected based on a history of lifetime achievement showing a broad impact in New England Journalism. Selection for the award is not based on any single achievement, or for doing your job each day, but rather on the broad influence for good over the course of a career. This year’s Yankee Quill Awards will be presented at a luncheon as part of the annual convention of the New England Newspaper and Press Association on Saturday, May 6, 2023, at the Westin Waltham Boston Hotel in Waltham, Mass. |
麻州天氣進入緊急狀況 州政府非必要員工3月14日不必回辦公室上班
(Boston Orange)麻州州長奚莉 (Maura Healey) 13日晚6點多，宣佈天氣緊急狀態，指示在麻州行政辦公室工作的員工們，因為氣候關係，3月14日不必回辦公室上班。
有能力遠距工作的員工，將遵循遠距工作政策。
Governor Healey has directed that non-emergency state
employees working in Executive Branch agencies should not report to their
workplaces on Tuesday, March 14, 2023 due to expected winter weather. Employees who have the capacity
to telework will be expected to do so in accordance with the Telework Policy.
星期日, 3月 12, 2023
波士頓經文處長孫儉元設宴歡迎台灣水產業團抵埠參加北美海產展
(Boston Orange 周菊子波士頓綜合報導)
北美最大的北美海產展暨加工業展於3月12至14日在波士頓會議展覽中心舉行，台灣由水產工業同業公會率團參加。駐波士頓台北經濟文化辦事處處長孫儉元3月11日設宴接風。
波士頓經文處處長孫儉元(右)歡迎台灣水產工業同業公會
秘書長吳姿蓉(左)率台灣參展團抵埠。 (周菊子攝(
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| 波士頓經文處處長孫儉元歡迎台灣廠商到波士頓參展。 (主辦單位提供) |
今年的參展廠商中，以前來過的有元家，冠民，嘉豐海洋，允偉興業，蘭揚食品，誠宏冷凍、海之寶，文鯕，竹門等。其中由企業高管率隊參展的有嘉豐海洋總經理何昭漢，元山實業董事長顏孟輝，元家企業總經理朱娟娟，海之寶企業廠長楊正國。
元山實業，宏益，天祐這3家廠商則是第一次來參加北美海產展。
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| 波士頓經文處處長孫儉元宴請參展廠商。(周菊子攝) |
3月11日晚，駐波士頓台北經濟文化辦事處處長孫儉元特地在新月宮設宴，為台灣參展團接風，打氣，祝他們參展成功。波士頓僑教中心主任潘昭榮也應邀與會。
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| 元山實業董事長顏孟輝(中)和公司員工廖玉琳駐守攤位。 (周菊子攝) |
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| 2023北美海產展的台灣館很醒目。(周菊子攝) |
波士頓台山聯誼會吟詩起舞迎兔年 籲關注社區穩定繁榮
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| 波士頓台山同鄉聯誼會會長黃紹培 (右七)和幹部及嘉賓合影。 (周菊子攝) |
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| 台山鄉親聯誼會成立前第一次出席討論會議的其中一部份人， 右一為陳美娟，右三為李照桃。 (周菊子攝) |
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| 波士頓市議會議長Ed Flynn (右二) 頒發表揚狀，波士頓台山鄉親 聯誼會會長黃紹培 (右一)和黃官羨，副會長黃偉健、黃漢湖 代表接受。 (周菊子攝) |
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| 波士頓台灣鄉親聯誼會會場黃紹培(右二)和4名副會長，右起陳晶年， 黃紹培、黃漢湖，黃偉健，李樹靄是2023年正副會長。 (周菊子攝) |
為尊重歷史傳承，台山鄉親聯誼會當晚特地安排一個環節，邀請當年討論波士頓應該成立台山鄉親聯誼會的第一批鄉親出列合照，讓所有的台山鄉親們認識，一起感謝一下他們的熱心，才在”前人種樹，後人乘涼”，以及歷屆會長的經營下，有了今天的台山同鄉聯誼會。
在台山鄉親大合唱「歡樂年年」和「歡樂中國年」之後，台山鄉親會長及嘉賓們一一致詞。
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| 波士頓台山鄉親會新任會長黃紹培強調要以三心二意 來為鄉親服務。 (周菊子攝( |
這天晚上到賀的嘉賓有紐英崙中華公所主席雷國輝，波士頓市議會議長愛德華費林 (Ed Flynn)，以及麻州參議員Nick Collins的代表，中國駐紐約總領事館領事陳曲鋒、孫潛，美國華人僑胞聯合總會主席趙鏡源，紐約台山鄉親聯誼會會長甄錦榮，華僑聯合總會等僑團也有共30多人來賀。
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| 紐英崙中華公所主席雷國輝致詞。 (周菊子攝) |
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| 開場大合唱「歡樂年年」。 (周菊子攝) |
中領館領事陳曲鋒致詞時，以普通話先簡述台山鄉親聯誼會的歷史，指出該會成立已20餘年，會員發展至逾千人，再稱許該會成員團結，感謝一直積極支持總領館舉辦的活動。
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| 台山鄉親大合唱，歡迎嘉賓。(周菊子攝) |
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| 台山鄉親聯誼會舞蹈團這碗表演了多個舞蹈。 (周菊子攝) |
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| 波士頓台山鄉親聯誼會副會長黃偉健，顧問黃國威，和 負責辦理報到的台山姊妹們。 (周菊子攝) |
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| 當晚席開三、四十桌，十分熱鬧。 |
星期六, 3月 11, 2023
波士頓安良工商會慶兔年 市長吳弭親到賀
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| 前排左起，鍾珮玲、陳仕維夫婦，鄧遐勳夫婦，伍健生，伍健平夫婦，陳順誠夫婦，胡英僚，陳偉達。後排右起，伍偉業， 紐約安良會長江寯嵐，陳偉民等人。(周菊子攝) |
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| 嘉賓及主人家接受瑞獅獻桔。 (周菊子攝) |
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| 右起，陳仕維，余麗媖，波士頓經文處處長孫儉元，麻州眾議員 麥家威 (Aaron Michlewitz)、波士頓市長吳弭 (Michelle Wu)，波士頓 市議員Erin Murphy，波士頓安良會長陳偉民，紐英崙至孝篤親公所 主席陳文珊，波士頓是亞裔聯絡員黃楚嵐，波士頓安良工商會 主席伍偉業。 (周菊子攝) |
駐波士頓台北經濟文化辦事處處長孫儉元，波士頓僑教中心主任潘昭榮這晚是當然嘉賓，很有心的，致詞時從頭到尾都說廣東話。
還是市議員時，就已和安良結緣的吳弭市長，自從陳文棟擔任會長，陳仕維當上全美安良工商會總理，在她競選市長時，不但落力助選，還數度辦籌款會後，她和安良的關係就更加密切了。
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| 胡炳超師傅的超武館為波士頓安良舞獅。 (周菊子攝) |
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| 波士頓市長吳弭 (Michelle Wu) 用中文說新年快樂。 (周菊子攝) |
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| 麻州眾議員麥家威 (Aaron Michlewitz)致詞。 (周菊子攝) |
安良自己的兄弟，由於全美總理之一的陳仕維來自波士頓，全美安良工商會高層，這晚幾乎全員出動，包括元老團主席伍健生，元老陳達偉，陳順誠，胡英僚，以及另一名全美總理鄧遐勳都遠道來波士頓祝賀。羅德島州也在會長黃超炎與陳任卓的率領下，坐滿了一桌10人。
紐英崙中華公所主席雷國輝也特地在致詞時感謝安良工商會去年和中華公所合作，為社區舉辦了乒乓球賽，象棋賽等活動。
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| 波士頓市議會議長Ed Flynn (右起)和市議員Erin Murphy頒表揚狀給波士頓 安良工商會，由會長陳偉民、伍偉業代表接受。(周橘子攝) |
波士頓安良工商會當晚還照華埠春宴慣例，送上「利市」給中華廣教學校，王氏青年會，中華耆英會，僑立中文學校和中華頤養院。
Governor Healey Issues Statement on Silicon Valley Bank
Governor Healey Issues Statement on Silicon
Valley Bank
BOSTON – Massachusetts Governor Maura T. Healey and Economic Development Secretary Yvonne Hao today issued the following statements on the FDIC’s appointment as the receiver of Silicon Valley Bank.
Governor Maura T. Healey:
“We have been closely monitoring the situation with Silicon Valley Bank. I have spoken with federal regulators and the White House, and they understand the impact of the situation on Massachusetts. I have also spoken with members of the business and banking communities and our state and federal delegation. Our administration is actively working to support individuals and businesses affected by SVB’s closure and to find solutions to help them address immediate needs, including putting supports in place to ensure that small businesses and employees do not experience significant disruptions. We will continue to be in dialogue with decision-makers and support all efforts to preserve the strength and stability of our markets and protect jobs, businesses, non-profits and our economy. We have confidence in the strength of our regional banks and banking operations.”
Economic Development
Secretary Yvonne Hao:
“My office has been working
throughout the weekend to gather data on the impact of Silicon Valley Bank’s
closure here in Massachusetts and to assess how sectors of our economy may be
affected in the days ahead. We
know Massachusetts may be uniquely impacted by this situation due to our strong
technology, innovation, and life sciences sectors and because SVB had a broad
client base here, including nonprofits, individuals and others. We are confident in the
FDIC’s process in resolving bank closures and in the Massachusetts banking
sector. The Healey-Driscoll Administration is working across secretariats to
develop creative solutions to help businesses and individuals meet their needs
and fill gaps where necessary.”