Mass General Brigham’s partnership with the YMCA of Greater Boston and the City of Boston is expanding access to fresh, healthy food for families. The Greater Boston Collaborative Food Access Hub serves an average of 20,000 residents monthly, distributing more than 1.7 million pounds of food. It recovers food that would have otherwise gone to waste, supporting both community health and environmental sustainability.
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“It’s almost like deja vu,” says former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown of his underdog battle with John Sununu and the GOP establishment over the nomination for US Senate in New Hampshire.
The reference is to Brown’s landmark upset of Martha Coakley in their 2010 showdown for the seat left open by Ted Kennedy’s death. “Remember when I ran and took back the so-called Kennedy seat and stopped the Democrat super majority? They also told me I shouldn’t be running,” Brown recalls. “‘It’s the Democrat seat, it’s the Kennedy seat.’ No, it’s the people’s seat. And it’s the same thing.”
Not quite. While the Massachusetts Democratic machine was clearly caught napping in 2010 (reflecting the campaign somnolence of their nominee), Brown beat a relatively obscure pol from Western Massachusetts, not a real or surrogate Kennedy. In Sununu, he faces a former US senator who by Brown’s own account is regularly mistaken for well-liked members of his famous New Hampshire political family. “People don’t know it’s John,” he reports. “They think it’s Chris, the very popular [former] governor. I say, ‘it’s not Chris.’ They go, ‘[is it] John the father’ [and former governor]? ‘No, no, not him.”…