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星期二, 4月 27, 2021
CITY OF BOSTON AND PARTNERS TO BRING JOB FAIR SERIES TO INCARCERATED AND RETURNING CITIZENS
Under Lemon Aid Law, impacted consumers can have until April 30 to get inspection sticker
AFTER OUTAGE, AG HEALEY REMINDS PUBLIC OF ADDITIONAL TIME TO GET VEHICLE INSPECTIONS AND RIGHTS UNDER LEMON AID LAW
With
Reopening of Vehicle Inspection Stations after Outage, AG Urges Consumers to
Get Inspections as Soon as Possible
BOSTON – Now that the RMV’s vehicle inspection stations are back online after an outage caused by a malware attack, Attorney General Maura Healey is encouraging affected consumers to obtain their inspections as soon as possible and reminding them they have additional time to exercise their vehicle return and refund rights under the state’s Lemon Aid Law. The AG’s advisory reminds consumers that the extension applies to consumers who purchased cars between March 23, 2021, and April 16, 2021, and impacted consumers have until April 30, 2021, to get their inspection stickers.
- If you purchased a vehicle
between March 23, 2021 and April 16, 2021: You have until April 30,
2021, to obtain an inspection sticker.
- If your inspection
sticker expired in March or April 2021: You have until May 31, 2021, to obtain an inspection
sticker
- If you are in a 60-day
retest period:
You will receive one extra day for each day the system was offline.
星期一, 4月 26, 2021
波士頓社區三輪清潔空氣補助款 今日起受理申請
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GE FOUNDATION COMMIT ADDITIONAL $600,000 TO YOUTH PREVENTION EDUCATION PROGRAM
AG HEALEY, GE FOUNDATION COMMIT ADDITIONAL $600,000
TO YOUTH PREVENTION EDUCATION PROGRAM, MAKE RESOURCES MORE ACCESSIBLE AND
INCLUSIVE
Project Here’s Programming for Social Emotional Learning and
Healthy Decision-Making Increasingly Important for Young People Amid Ongoing
COVID-19 Pandemic
BOSTON
– Attorney General Maura Healey and the GE Foundation today
announced an additional $600,000 has been committed to Project Here, a
public-private collaboration to make substance use prevention education
available to all public middle schools in Massachusetts. The AG’s Office and
the GE Foundation, in collaboration with FableVision Studios, have also
launched new updates to make the program’s educational app, Project Here Games,
more accessible and inclusive, including translating the app into Spanish and
adding more content focused on cultural responsiveness.
“Project
Here’s resources on social emotional learning and skill-building, including
healthy ways to cope with stress, are increasingly important and relevant as
young people are dealing with social isolation, stress and anxiety during
COVID-19,” said AG Healey. “We are grateful to the GE Foundation for
their continued support of this program and are excited to unveil updates to
Project Here Games that will make them more relevant, effective, and accessible
for students.”
“We’re proud to continue this
important and impactful partnership with AG Healey on Project Here and help our
youth navigate the new and unique challenges they face today,” said David
Barash, Executive Director, GE Foundation. “By making this new investment
together, we are helping middle schoolers practice healthy decision-making,
create positive interpersonal relationships, develop social-emotional skills,
and prevent substance use before it starts.”
Designed to tackle a
significant unmet need for prevention education in the state’s battle against
the ongoing opioid crisis, Project Here was announced in May 2017 by the AG’s
Office and the GE Foundation to promote social
emotional learning and empower students to make healthy decisions through an
innovative combination of curricula, digital content, and support for educators
and students.
The additional $600,000 commitment
announced today brings the total investment to $2.6 million and will help fund
the program over the next few years. To date, more than 361 schools have
registered for Project Here and are accessing its resources. More than 500
educators have received training and technical assistance on how to use Project
Here’s resources and best practices in substance use prevention. Project Here
has also provided nearly $450,000 in grant funding to schools and districts to
implement evidence-based curricula.
Project Here Games, a first-of-its-kind
web-based education app announced in September 2018 and developed for Project
Here
by FableVision Studios, provides an innovative and engaging digital experience
to teach students about healthy choices, peer pressure, substance use and
coping with stress. Through games, quizzes, and scenarios, students gain
practical skills to navigate challenging situations and make healthy decisions
now and for the future.
Today, the AG’s Office is unveiling important
updates to the app to make it more accessible and inclusive, with a focus on
cultural responsiveness. Those updates include translating the entire app into
Spanish and adding a “read aloud” feature, in English and Spanish, for students
who read below grade level and/or who are English-language learners. The updated version also includes new
scenarios developed with an equity lens, which include content on racial and
socioeconomic microaggressions.
The new updates also allow teachers and
students to log in and play Project Here Games using their Google Classrooms
accounts. Project Here Games is available for
free on computers, tablets, and smart phones and has the flexibility to be used
by teachers as an in-classroom activity or by students outside of school. In February 2019, Project Here Games was
selected as a 2019
Parents’ Choice Gold Award winner for its “skillfully
designed” content and thought-provoking hypothetical scenarios for allowing
children to consider how different actions can have different outcomes.
Young people are
particularly vulnerable to the risks of substance use. Ninety percent of all
adults struggling with addiction started using when they were under the age of
18, and 50 percent were under the age of 15. Studies have shown that effective
substance use education and prevention programming can significantly decrease
the risk of substance use among young people.
People can learn
more information and schools can register for Project Here, which provides
access to the Online Toolkit and support for Project Here Games, at www.projectherema.org. Project Here
Games is available at www.projectheregames.org.
麻州長提案增訂道路安全法 建議安裝紅燈拍照機
Baker-Polito Administration Files Legislation to Improve Road Safety
BOSTON – The Baker-Polito Administration today filed legislation to improve road safety, entitled, “An Act Relative to Improving Safety on the Roads of the Commonwealth.” The legislation includes provisions previously filed by the Administration in 2019 and several new proposals, including increasing penalties for individuals who cause personal injury while driving on a non-administratively suspended license.
“These proposals will make Massachusetts
roadways and streets safer for all travelers and will help reduce roadway fatalities across the state,” said Governor Charlie Baker. “This legislative package builds upon laws enacted in 2019 to prevent and enforce distracted driving, and we look forward to working with our partners in the Legislature to take additional steps to improve road safety.”
“This legislation will make a difference for all travelers in the Commonwealth including pedestrians, bicyclists, and drivers," said Lt. Governor Karyn Polito. "We are grateful for the input from municipal leaders, advocacy groups and non-profit organizations, which allow us to take steps that will save lives and prevent injuries in communities throughout the Commonwealth.”
“The new laws are first and foremost in keeping with our goal to reduce the number of deaths on our roads,” said Acting Secretary of Transportation Jamey Tesler. “Crashes due to distracted driving, speeding, and other unsafe driving behaviors, continue to occur on Massachusetts roadways despite reduced driving levels during the pandemic, and these proposals will help refocus and change current driving habits and behaviors to ensure that individuals remain safe.”
“Preventing roadway injuries and fatalities is a priority for all of us at EOPSS,” said Public Safety Secretary Thomas Turco. “These common-sense proposals are important to make sure that drivers, passengers, and vulnerable road users like pedestrians and bicyclists can all get home safely.”
An Act Relative to Improving Safety on the Roads of the Commonwealth, includes proposals on the following new and previously filed topics:
- Primary Seatbelt: allows law enforcement to stop motorists for not wearing a seatbelt.
- Haley’s Law: increases penalties for individuals who cause personal injury while driving on a non-administratively suspended license. New provisions would create three levels of new “aggravating factors” to driving while suspended: 1) Driving negligently/recklessly: fine up to $1,000 and up to 5 years in prison; 2) Causing “serious bodily injury:” fine up $3,000 and house of correction up to 2.5 years; and 3) Causing death: fine up to $5,000 and mandatory 2 years to a maximum of 10 years in prison. Current statute simply penalizes for driving while suspended.
- Traffic Camera Enforcement Local Option: allows localities to place red light cameras at intersections (and the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR)/MassDOT-owned roads that serve as local roads with DCR/MassDOT permission). Cameras would be restricted to collecting photographs only upon a violation and only of the vehicle license plates. Violations would include running a red light and making an illegal turn on a red light.
- Bicycle Safe Passing: requires a driver to maintain a 3 foot “safe passing distance” and to travel at a speed that is reasonable and proper when passing a bicyclist or pedestrian when there isn’t any physical separation (such as a protected bike lane or curb). Thirty-six other states have “safe distance” requirements.
- Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Changes: a refile of previously filed changes to the state’s CDL laws, which include updates to conform to federal law.
- Crash Data Reporting: proposes adding to reporting requirements crash information involving “a vulnerable user,” a term which would include pedestrians, bicyclists, public works or public safety personnel working in the right of way, individuals on farm tractors, and users of other mobility devices such as scooters and in-line skates. Current statute requires drivers to report any crashes resulting in serious bodily injury, death, or property damage in excess of $1000. This reporting on crashes involving vulnerable users will assist municipalities and state transportation entities to identify problem areas or emerging trends.
- Side Guards and Additional Mirrors: requires all Commonwealth-owned and operated vehicles over 10,000 pounds to have side guards, convex mirrors and cross-over mirrors. Additionally, all Commonwealth and municipal contractors would be required to have these devices by January 1, 2024. Side guards protect bicyclists and pedestrians from being swept under large vehicles, which can happen, for example, when vehicles are making tight turns at intersections. The convex mirrors complement the side guards.
Low-Speed Mobility Device Advisory Working Group: given the growth in use and acceptance of micro-mobility solutions like electric scooters and bicycles, and their unclear status in state law and local regulation, this bill calls for MassDOT to convene an advisory group to recommend a new statutory framework to ensure safe use while encouraging these low-carbon transportation alternatives