The People’s Blog

The following are remarks I delivered at the UMass Amherst Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation’s first annual symposium on nursing and engineering innovation on September [...]

I offered this reflection at the UMass Amherst School of Public Policy kick off on September 1, 2022. Thank you to the School of Public Policy for inviting me to […]

Written remarks offered at Pioneer Valley Regional School District’s school year kick off on August 29, 2022. (I cut them a bit on the spot for time!) So honored to […]

There is an upcoming opportunity to provide comments about the way the Commonwealth’s public lands are managed.  The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) is holding public listening [...]

Greetings, I’m still catching my breath from the final month of our two-year legislative session. July was a sprint at the end of a marathon as the House and Senate […]

Right before we finished our work for the year, the legislature passed a sweeping mental health bill, titled the Mental Health ABC Act: Addressing Barriers to Care (ABC) with my […]

We’re writing about a both timely and time-bound opportunity to engage in a process, the outcome of which has the potential to affect the health of the Connecticut River Valley […]

Yesterday, in the final days of the legislative session, the House and Senate both passed legislation that makes key reforms to the governance structure of the state’s veterans’ homes. The […]

I offered the following remarks in a floor speech on July 29, 2022 to support a bill I filed to transform public health in Massachusetts:   Thank you Mr. Presdient, […]

Today, the Senate and House passed H.5090, An Act expanding protections for reproductive and gender-affirming care. I was delighted to vote YES and proud that many of the Senate’s equity-driven [...]