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Just what the world needs, another "Blue Ribbon Panel" that ends up overstating the obvious...

Maine to study burden of student debt on its graduates​

pressherald.com/2021/07/14/maine-to-study-burden-of-student-debt-on-its-graduates/

By Carol Semple July 14, 2021

AUGUSTA — Maine is going to study the burden student loan debt has on college graduates in the state.
Gov. Janet Mills has signed a bill designed to study the impact of the debt. Democratic Sen. Mattie Daughtry, of Brunswick, proposed the bill, which reinstates the state’s Commission to Study College Affordability and College Completion.

Daughtry said Wednesday the state needs to “make sure we understand how the cost of education, and the burden of student loans that come with it, is impacting Maine workers and our economy.”

Daughtry said student loan debt in America is about $1.7 trillion and is higher than the nation’s credit card debt.

Maine’s average student loan borrower has more than $33,000 in school loans, Daughtry said. The senator said that is the sixth-highest average in the country.

The commission is expected to provide a report to the Maine Legislature by January.
 

Woman’s death under investigation after boat sinks in Boston Harbor early Saturday morning​

By John Hilliard and Ivy Scott Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent, Updated July 17, 2021, 6:58 p.m.

A woman’s death was under investigation Saturday after a vessel she was on with seven other boaters struck a day marker and sank off Castle Island around 3 a.m.

The eight people on board were thrown into the water when the center console boat went under, the US Coast Guard reported in a statement Saturday afternoon. Seven boaters were rescued by crews from the local agencies that responded shortly after the sinking.

Five of them were sent to area hospitals, according to Boston Fire Department spokesman Brian Alkins. None of the surviving men and women suffered life-threatening injuries, according to Boston Police Sergeant Detective John Boyle.

A body matching the description of the missing woman was recovered from the water by the Massachusetts State Police shortly after 10 a.m., according to the Coast Guard.

The body was transported to the state medical examiner’s office for an autopsy, Boyle said. The woman’s family has been notified, he said, but police are awaiting the autopsy results before publicly releasing her name, as well as the cause and manner of her death.

Boston police’s homicide unit is investigating the woman’s death, along with the Suffolk district attorney’s office, according to standard procedure, Boyle said. In a statement, police asked anyone with information relative to the investigation to contact Boston police homicide detectives at (617) 343-4470.

A reconstruction of the crash will be done by the state Boat and Recreation Vehicle Safety Bureau, Boyle said. He had no information about whether charges would be filed.

Weather conditions recorded at Logan International Airport around the time the boat sank showed clear skies with a visibility of about 10 miles, according to Bill Simpson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Norton.

The sinking prompted a massive response by multiple agencies including Boston’s EMS, police, and fire departments, along with the Coast Guard, State Police, Environmental Police, and the Massport Fire Department, the Coast Guard said in its statement.

Captain Kailie Benson, commander of the US Coast Guard’s Sector Boston, said in the statement that her condolences go out to the family and friends of the victim, and reminded people to be careful on the water.

“I would like to take this moment to remind everyone to practice safe boating by wearing life jackets, operating at a safe speed, and considering the risk posed by the environment when taking to the water,” Benson said.

The Coast Guard searched the vicinity of Castle Island for approximately 13 hours, it said.

During the search, first responders had set up a command post near the Carson Beach pier. In the distance, a boat could be seen upside down in the water, while rescue vessels were searching about a quarter-mile away.

Around 10 a.m., a diver from the Boston Fire Department’s search-and-rescue boat could be seen going into the water about 100 yards from the tall day marker. One of those markers was surrounded by several rescue boats.

The deadly boating crash comes a day after three people were rescued Friday by helicopter several miles off the New Hampshire coast when their sailboat capsized, according to the Coast Guard. Also on Friday, a Hy-Line Ferry collided with another vessel in Nantucket Harbor in heavy fog Friday evening, the Coast Guard said. No injuries were reported in either of those cases.
 
Roccus7 said:

Woman’s death under investigation after boat sinks in Boston Harbor early Saturday morning​

By John Hilliard and Ivy Scott Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent, Updated July 17, 2021, 6:58 p.m.

A woman’s death was under investigation Saturday after a vessel she was on with seven other boaters struck a day marker and sank off Castle Island around 3 a.m.

The eight people on board were thrown into the water when the center console boat went under, the US Coast Guard reported in a statement Saturday afternoon. Seven boaters were rescued by crews from the local agencies that responded shortly after the sinking.

Five of them were sent to area hospitals, according to Boston Fire Department spokesman Brian Alkins. None of the surviving men and women suffered life-threatening injuries, according to Boston Police Sergeant Detective John Boyle.

A body matching the description of the missing woman was recovered from the water by the Massachusetts State Police shortly after 10 a.m., according to the Coast Guard.

The body was transported to the state medical examiner’s office for an autopsy, Boyle said. The woman’s family has been notified, he said, but police are awaiting the autopsy results before publicly releasing her name, as well as the cause and manner of her death.

Boston police’s homicide unit is investigating the woman’s death, along with the Suffolk district attorney’s office, according to standard procedure, Boyle said. In a statement, police asked anyone with information relative to the investigation to contact Boston police homicide detectives at (617) 343-4470.

A reconstruction of the crash will be done by the state Boat and Recreation Vehicle Safety Bureau, Boyle said. He had no information about whether charges would be filed.

Weather conditions recorded at Logan International Airport around the time the boat sank showed clear skies with a visibility of about 10 miles, according to Bill Simpson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Norton.

The sinking prompted a massive response by multiple agencies including Boston’s EMS, police, and fire departments, along with the Coast Guard, State Police, Environmental Police, and the Massport Fire Department, the Coast Guard said in its statement.

Captain Kailie Benson, commander of the US Coast Guard’s Sector Boston, said in the statement that her condolences go out to the family and friends of the victim, and reminded people to be careful on the water.

“I would like to take this moment to remind everyone to practice safe boating by wearing life jackets, operating at a safe speed, and considering the risk posed by the environment when taking to the water,” Benson said.

The Coast Guard searched the vicinity of Castle Island for approximately 13 hours, it said.

During the search, first responders had set up a command post near the Carson Beach pier. In the distance, a boat could be seen upside down in the water, while rescue vessels were searching about a quarter-mile away.

Around 10 a.m., a diver from the Boston Fire Department’s search-and-rescue boat could be seen going into the water about 100 yards from the tall day marker. One of those markers was surrounded by several rescue boats.

The deadly boating crash comes a day after three people were rescued Friday by helicopter several miles off the New Hampshire coast when their sailboat capsized, according to the Coast Guard. Also on Friday, a Hy-Line Ferry collided with another vessel in Nantucket Harbor in heavy fog Friday evening, the Coast Guard said. No injuries were reported in either of those cases.
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Over the spring, the Town of Oyster Bay (nary an oyster to be seen of course) replaced many of its red buoys with triangular signs on poles. The poles are not lighted, their numbers simply painted in reflective paint on both sides of the triangle (which of course would be all but invisible when approached from the side.) Friends and I are waiting for the first crash, especially with all the ignorant and rude newbies out there this year.
 
jpd said:
Never going to stop.....

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‘Asian carp’ rebranded because tag is deemed racist

The US Fish and Wildlife Service rebranded the freshwater fish wreaking havoc in the Midwest as “invasive carp” earlier this year and didn’t want to paint Asian people in a “negative li…
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this is getting so asinine. I guess my calling the pandemic's source as the ch**a virus is a no- no as well. Well wash my mouth out with soap.
 
Yikes. If I spell China with a capital C does that get to stay ? I wouldn't want to be politically incorrect ya know, lol. Why is it that the Ebola River and the Marburg (village) malady and the incorrectly appropriated Spanish flu get to be so identified ?
 
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