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Senator Mike Barrett

3 days ago

Barrett, who spearheaded the legislation for the special commission, recalled his college years in the 1960s, when a mentorship program brought him to Fernald to play with a 6-year-old boy. Barrett struggled to understand why the boy, who appeared to have no cognitive defects, was at the school, surrounded mostly by older adults.

“His story and the story of everyone with whom he lived hasn’t been told. We don’t know, even to this day, much about the lives that were lived,” Barrett said, drawing an analogy to The New York Times’ 1619 project that reminded “all of us that we don’t really know our own history as a country, or as a state, or as a community.”

“The truth here has eluded us,” Barrett said of Fernald.

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‘Bowels of hell’: Commission to investigate history of Mass. state institutions

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A commission will investigate the history of institutions for people with developmental or intellect...

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Senator Mike Barrett

1 week ago

Affordable housing can be innovative, efficient, and, importantly, totally fossil fuel-free. That was the takeaway from a trip to Roxbury, where, with the help of Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, Preservation of Affordable Housing is building 52 units of senior housing, which will all be heated and cooled with all-electric heat pumps. Even energy backup will come from an on-site battery rather than oil and natural gas. And it’s being constructed at a reasonable cost. Below, touring the site with the developers, contractors, reps from MassCEC, and the Legislature’s energy committee. ... See MoreSee Less

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Senator Mike Barrett

Mike Barrett

State Senator | Democrat | 3rd Middlesex District MA