Duxbury is a historic seaside town in Plymouth County,Massachusetts,United States. A suburb located on the South Shore approximately 35 miles (56 km) to the southeast of Boston,the population was 16,090 at the 2020 census.
Michael Everett Capuano is an American politician and attorney who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1999 to 2019. A Democrat,his district included the northern three-fourths of Boston,as well as parts of Cambridge,his hometown of Somerville,and other communities immediately north and south of Boston. Prior to being elected to Congress,he served as an Alderman and Mayor of Somerville.
Dorchester is a Boston neighborhood comprising more than 6 square miles (16 km2) in the City of Boston,Massachusetts,United States. Originally,Dorchester was a separate town,founded by Puritans who emigrated in 1630 from Dorchester,Dorset,England,to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This dissolved municipality,Boston's largest neighborhood by far,is often divided by city planners in order to create two planning areas roughly equivalent in size and population to other Boston neighborhoods.
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy was the infant child of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and the younger brother of Caroline,John Jr.,and Arabella.
William Matthew Walsh is an Irish airline executive who is currently the Director General of the International Air Transport Association. Until 2020,he was CEO of International Airlines Group,and had previously been CEO of Aer Lingus and British Airways.
Walsh University is a private Roman Catholic university in North Canton,Ohio. It enrolls approximately 2,700 students and was founded in 1960 by the Brothers of Christian Instruction as a liberal arts college. Walsh College became Walsh University in 1993. The university offers more than 70 undergraduate majors and seven graduate programs,as well as multiple global learning experiences.
Howard Kyongju Koh is the former United States Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),after being nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2009.
Myles Neal Brand(May 17,1942 –September 16,2009) was a philosopher and university administrator who served as the 14th president of the University of Oregon,the 16th president of Indiana University,and the fourth president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) of the United States.
Steven A. Schroeder is Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care at the University of California,San Francisco (UCSF),where he also heads the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center. He served as the president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation from 1990 to 2002. Schroeder is known for his work in promoting smoking cessation strategies.
Charles Duane Baker Jr. is an American politician and businessman who served as the 72nd governor of Massachusetts from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party,Baker was a cabinet official under two governors of Massachusetts and served ten years as CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care before being elected governor.
Boston,officially the City of Boston,is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th-most populous city in the country. The city boundaries encompass an area of about 48.4 sq mi (125 km2) and a population of 675,647 as of 2020. The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston,a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest MSA in the country. A broader combined statistical area (CSA),generally corresponding to the commuting area and including Providence,Rhode Island,is home to approximately 8.2 million people,making it the sixth most populous in the United States.
This article is a timeline of the history of the city of Boston,Massachusetts,USA.
Mercy Medical Center is located in Springfield,Massachusetts. Founded by the Sisters of Providence Health System,Mercy Hospital is a faith-based,non-profit organization serving patients regardless of background or beliefs. Mercy Medical Center is known for its tradition of holistic health care.
Laurie Hollis Glimcher is an American physician-scientist who was appointed president and CEO of Dana–Farber Cancer Institute in October 2016. She was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.
Nick Collins is an American politician who currently serves as a member of the Massachusetts Senate. He is a Boston resident and a Democrat. Elected into the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 2010,he served four terms in the House representing the 4th Suffolk District.
Martin Joseph Walsh is an American politician and former union official. He has been the 29th United States Secretary of Labor since March 23,2021. A Democrat,he previously served as the 54th mayor of Boston from 2014,until resigning in 2021 after being confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as secretary of labor in the Cabinet of President Joe Biden. Before his mayoralty,he served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives,representing the thirteenth Suffolk district from 1997 until 2014.
Gary William Loveman is an American economist,businessman,and former academic professor. After nine years on the faculty of Harvard Business School,he left in 1998 to become COO of Harrah's Entertainment,which,following a number of acquisitions,became Caesars Entertainment. He was the CEO of Caesars Entertainment Corporation for 12 years until stepping down on June 30,2015,amidst a bankruptcy and restructuring. He remained chairman until late 2017. He was then president of Aetna’s Consumer Health and Services division from October 2015 until January 2018.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Boston is part of an ongoing viral pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the Massachusetts city of Boston. The first confirmed case was reported on February 1,2020,and the number of cases began to increase rapidly by March 8. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker declared a state of emergency on March 10. Mayor Marty Walsh declared a public health emergency on March 15. By March 21,more than a hundred people in Boston had tested positive for COVID-19. Most early cases were traceable to a company meeting held in late February by the biotechnology firm Biogen in Boston.
The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Boston.
The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Massachusetts.
