I support the Patient Safety Act, a November 2018 ballot measure establishing safe maximum limits on the number of patients assigned to a nurse at one time. As a registered nurse for 27 years at the bedside, currently at HealthAlliance in Leominster for the past 11 years, I have had experience trying to care for too many patients at one time.
IT'S HARD to dispute that the continued sightings of creepy clowns, real and fake, has created a kind of mass hysteria throughout the country, including right here in North Central Massachusetts. When talking to police departments in our coverage area for a story about the "social-media phenomenon" last week, it was hard to ignore the irritation in the voices of many of the spokesmen when asked whether there had been any clown sightings.
With less than two weeks left before the Sept. 8 primary election, state representative candidates Natalie Higgins and Richard Marchand are showing no signs of slowing down.