IN EXPLORING legislation to expand commuter transit benefits, we sought to save Massachusetts residents money and improve our environment. Then a global pandemic changed the entire transportation landscape. Presently, use of MBTA services and regional transit authorities across the state are still just a fraction of what they had been prior to COVID. Commuter rail […]
John Keenan
State Sen. John F. Keenan is the chairman of the Special Senate Committee on Addiction Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Options. He represents his hometown of Quincy as well as Holbrook, Abington, Rockland, and parts of Braintree.
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FDA must ban menthol cigarettes this time
AT THE END of April, the Food and Drug Administration announced it would move toward banning menthol flavored cigarettes and all flavored cigars. While encouraged by the announcement, we must remember that we have been at this stage before and have seen the FDA retreat. History should not repeat itself: the FDA must seize this […]