The Heart of the Commonwealth
Worcester · Massachusetts
Because getting older should come with better information, not less of it.
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Benefits · Health · Retirement
New York Times · Subscribers
Nearly 20 million eggs were recalled in July over salmonella concerns. The new classification signals a “reasonable probability” of “serious adverse health consequences or death.”
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In an usual move, Congress worsened terms for some existing borrowers. Now they’ll have to pay more, and for a longer term.
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More cataract patients, wanting not only restored but improved vision, are paying extra for their doctors to use a laser when a scalpel would do.
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The Department of Health and Human Services has launched an effort to streamline clinical research, and legislation is pending in Congress. But patients and providers face participation challenges.
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AARP ·
AARP ·
Kiplinger ·
Social Security ·
Social Security ·
Kiplinger ·
Fifty Plus Advocate ·
The city, the county, the neighborhoods
Boston Globe · Subscribers
In an age of intense discourse around AI, particularly when it comes to art, experts and the public are debating how it should be used and when it’s...
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A grieving woman experiencing physical symptoms after her sister's death receives advice on grief treatments, with recovery potentially taking six months or more.
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The report also found the worst community colleges in the U.S., of course.
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A Kentucky woman woke to find a bear had entered her Harlan County home, shattered a glass table and devoured leftover fried chicken.
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Woodward was accused of shaking 8-month-old Matthew Eappen of Newton so violently that the child died.
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Worcester Magazine ·
Worcester Telegram · Subscribers
Worcester Telegram · Subscribers
Worcester Telegram · Subscribers
WBUR ·
WBUR ·
Boston Globe · Subscribers
Worcester Business Journal ·
Worcester Business Journal · Subscribers
City of Worcester ·
City of Worcester ·
Wire reports & foreign desks
The Guardian ·
Internal documents obtained by Guardian show White House meetings, scheduled calls with top Trump officials and communications with Fox News producers Continue reading...
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Klaire Rhodes was attacked by a brown bear in state park but spray helped her escape with ‘relatively minor injuries’ An Alaska marathon athlete used a repellant spray...
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Investigation into unnamed lawmakers comes hours before parliament is due to to vote on successor to Mykhailo Fedorov as he calls for elections Meanwhile, Estonia is investigating whether...
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The Senate GOP campaign arm, in a private memo to top AI companies, warns that toxic views of U.S.
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Many of the alleged cyber attacks were carried out for the Iranian government, the Department of Justice says.
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NPR ·
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Elder Voices
Somewhere along the way the news got small. Not less important — smaller. The type shrank, the buttons moved, and the story you wanted sat behind three taps and a video that started playing on its own. A lot of people in this city simply stopped trying.
This page is built the other way around. One screen. Big type, and a control at the top to make it bigger still. Every item is a headline, a couple of sentences telling you what happened, and a link to the people who reported it. No slideshow. No autoplay. No guessing where to click.
The middle column is Worcester, because that is where you live and that is what actually changes your week — the elevator at Union Station, the deferral deadline at City Hall, the shuttle at Green Hill Park. The left column carries the news that follows you into retirement: Social Security, Medicare, housing, the scams that target this city hardest. The right column keeps the wider world in view, because getting older did not make anyone less curious.
And the list of services stays pinned in place, every day, whether or not there is news attached to it. That is the part we consider the real front page.
Senior Report Today publishes every morning from Worcester, Massachusetts.
Puzzle Page
Every answer comes from a story on yesterday’s page.
Every answer is here. Each one crosses itself off once it is correctly filled in.
Puzzle Page
A new puzzle every morning. Fill each row, column and box with the numbers 1 to 9.
Missed a day? Every paper from the past week is here, just as it was printed.
Is there a story we are missing, a paper we ought to be reading, or something on this page that is hard to use? Tell us. A person reads every one of these.
