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ALAN WIRZBICKI -- We have a need for speed ... cameras -- Boston would be allowed to install up to 130 speed cameras under a proposal filed by Governor Maura Healey that could markedly upgrade traffic enforcement in Massachusetts.

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- Why did JD Vance flip-flop on Trump's Jan. 6 pardons? -- Vance, with an Ivy League pedigree, wallows in the intellectual weakness of the right when it ditches all respect for the rule of law and those who enforce it.

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Ashish K. Jha -- The key questions senators must ask Trump's health nominees -- RFK Jr. and other nominees risk eroding scientific integrity, prioritizing political ideologies over public health, and undermining the very institutions that protect us.

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Jeb Bush -- For better education, it's time to heed Nation's Report Card -- When new data from this gold-standard test is released later this month, the results may paint a sobering picture. But the situation is far from hopeless.

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Arthur Caplan -- From polio to COVID: Why Kennedy is unfit for HHS -- As a polio survivor, I believe that lethal diseases will recur if RFK Jr. is the next secretary of Health and Human Services.

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Healey eyes $2.5 billion for public campus maintenance -- To meet the needs of the 21st century, the state's public colleges and universities need modern, suitable buildings.

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Trump's executive orders mean trouble for clean energy projects, immigrant parents, and transgender people -- Many of Trump's flurry of executive orders are overreaching, particularly on clean energy, immigration, and transgender rights. States should be prepared to push back.

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Healey's budget: Candy tax, hospital closures, and a big investment in the T -- The state's surtax on incomes over $1 million, approved by voters in 2022, is doing what it was intended to do: creating more resources for education and transportation.

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One week into Trump's term, is it end of days or just early days? -- "Welcome to the first days of his attempt at authoritarian rule," writes one reader. Another: "The voting public, well aware of his promises, looked at the alternative offerings of the Democrats and made their voices heard."

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There's more to lottery data than just where tickets are sold -- Focusing solely on sales data by town creates a misleading narrative that communities like Boxford unfairly benefit at the expense of others.

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There is much the left can do to counter Trump's roughshod rule -- Readers react to a recent Ideas piece that counseled against total resistance as a liberal strategy.

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Key lesson of '07 immigration raid: There could be legal recourse -- Many prevailed in their political asylum claims due to findings by immigration judges that their fears of persecution were in fact well-founded.

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When absurd ideas get run up the flagpole -- While some farfetched ideas should enter mainstream discourse and consideration, others clearly should not.

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The advance of heat pumps bumps up against cost concerns -- "I installed a heat pump two years ago and really dread the wintertime electric bills," writes one reader. Another: "Let's hope the state quickly enacts heat pump-friendly rates."

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Ryan Normandin -- In Newton, we tried an experiment in educational equity. It has failed. -- "Multilevel classrooms" are not working for teachers or students, writes the head of Newton South High School's Faculty Council.

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IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG -- Scared of another Trump term? Here's how it could work out better than you think. -- The silver linings playbook for the next four years.

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CARINE HAJJAR -- An attempt to cancel Seth Moulton boomerangs on Tufts -- The chair of the university's political science department said Tufts would stop facilitating internships with the Salem congressman after his comments about transgender athletes. But that wasn't the end of the story.

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Vikas Saini -- How America's broken health system fuels dangerous rage -- Why there is pent up anger about America's health care system.

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Heather Hopp-Bruce -- Spending the day with my transgender son and MAGA aunt -- They share the same goals — freedom, prosperity, safety — but have wildly different ideas about how to achieve them and no single conversation or text thread is going to change that.

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EDITORIAL -- Tougher action is needed on teacher strikes -- Much higher fines would make a difference.

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Ward Sutton -- Passing the torch

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Will Dowd -- Remembering Li Qingzhao

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Back, at last, to the color-blind principle

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A bishop's message of mercy rattled Trump but offered solace to a nation in peril

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My family's painful decision to flee Ukraine

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The Wisdom Issue: How to grow old — without getting old -- Writers of a certain age on the challenges, delights, surprises, preoccupations, and freedoms of growing older.

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True stories from an ICU: Was it right to keep their sister alive? -- An illustrated opinion piece that explores the emotional impact of hospice care on ICU nurses and hospital employees.

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IDEAS -- Blueprints for a new downtown Boston -- It's time to reimagine the identity of the city's core — and we've got ideas.

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When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse -- An interactive comic that explores how medical mistakes can happen in the chaotic environment of an ICU.

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Teens Speak -- We asked. They delivered. Teens from across the country offer a candid look at how they're navigating life, school, friendships, social media, expectations, and so much more.

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Blue sky Boston: Where inspiration meets aspiration for the city's future -- Sustainable living. Gondolas. A science expo. Evaluation of student humanity. Here's what a Boston of the future could be.

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