MBTA can be sued over assault by bus driver, SJC rules
New from CommonWealth Beacon DATA PURGE : The Trump administration’s move to purge, alter, or malign a broad swath of public health data has implications far beyond academia. In a conversation on The Codcast, Ariel Beccia, an instructor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, describes how data purges ripple through society and what researchers are doing to protect their work. ENERGY TRIP : Eleven legislative leaders left for Canada on Thursday with plans to return Saturday. Michael Norton of the State House News Service reports lawmakers describe the trip as “part of a broader strategy to explore affordable, sustainable, and renewable forms of carbon-free energy.” OPINION : Massachusetts is one of the richest per-capita places in the world, write Harris Gruman, executive director of the SEIU Massachusetts State Council and a co-founder of the Raise Up Massachusetts coalition, and state Sen. Patricia Jehlen of Somerville. T...