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Interesting read about the life of Malcolm Peabody. But how could he be "the youngest of five children" and "an adviser to his younger brother, Endicott 'Chubb' Peabody," a Massachusetts governor in the 1960s? The Washington Post Post Obituaries Harrison Smith washingtonpost.com/obituaries/202…

That was actually our photo that was “borrowed” — and it came with this profile from a year ago when Michael Dukakis turned 90. Would love RT of this. commonwealthbeacon.org/politics/at-90…

At least they are consistent: The Patriots can’t seem to do anything right this season.

Big news in Boston: Jim Canales is stepping down as president of the Barr Foundation. (He'll shift over to chair of its board.) commonwealthbeacon.org/education/cana…

Scandal-plagued pols have every right to due process in court. But it's a different standard in the court of public opinion, where calls to resign are often based on the swirl of scandal, not verdict of a jury. commonwealthbeacon.org/politics/shoul…

Two worthy goals — greater accessibility in buildings for disabled people and spurring the revitalization of economically distressed Gateway Cities — are colliding as an obscure state panel weighs changes to a 1968 regulation. commonwealthbeacon.org/government/sta…

NEW in CommonWealth Beacon: If academics living cushy campus lives get sabbaticals to recharge, shouldn't cops, whose stress levels are linked all sorts of adverse mental and physical health effects? commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/why-po…

The Massachusetts "eds and meds" sector has made the state a juggernaut of the knowledge economy. Now it's making it a target as the Trump administration targets universities and research grant recipients. commonwealthbeacon.org/health-care/ma…

That's actually about a 60% decline, not 10%.

Alvin Poussaint, who died this week at age 90, was a long-time friend and collaborator of Bill Cosby's -- before the famed comic was the subject of multiple rape and sexual assult allegations. CommonWealth Beacon interviewed them in those before days, in 2008. commonwealthbeacon.org/education/bill…

If this account from Michael Jonas is any indication Dems haven't gotten the message yet: commonwealthbeacon.org/education/mass…

Mass. education secretary’s votes reflect growing Democratic hostility toward charter schools Gov. Maura Healey’s top education aide, Patrick Tutwiler, opposed every charter expansion proposal brought to state board commonwealthbeacon.org/education/mass… CommonWealth Beacon Michael Jonas

There is zero percent chance someone in downtown Boston who wasn’t in-the-know about the cockamamie @mbta Red Line rejiggering would have a clue what to do. They’re like lambs set for slaughter. Could be standing on platform waiting for Ashmont train until May.

New @mbta Red Line train tells us we’re at Savin Hill when reality tells us we’re at Fields Corner.

Had to stop and think after Kai Ryssdal just ID'd a question as coming from a woman in "Bi-lair-i-ca," Massachusetts. (Our town names should come with English translations. At least she wasn't from Scituate.)

The good news, amid so many horrible world events: One way or another, we should soon be done getting fed a daily -- sometimes hourly -- diet of stories on the Karen Read trial, the outsized significance of which has never been clear.

Thanks Michael Jonas for the opportunity share about David Gergen's impact on me and New Politics with our Seth Moulton origin story commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/beyond…