“It’s not fair for teachers to spend their already limited time searching mediocre-at-best websites to try and find appointments,” Rausch said.

Covers event at Charles River School in Dover in which students presented their ideas for a new MA state flag to Senator Rausch, who co-sponsored the legislation calling to change it.

“This afternoon’s announcement by the Baker-Polito Administration shows a recognition that targeted outreach efforts are desperately needed to speed vaccination in the communities hardest hit by COVID – something we welcome as ‘better late than never,'” Democratic senators Sonia Chang-Díaz and Becca Rausch and representatives Liz Miranda and Mindy Domb said in a statement. “But the announcement is exasperatingly short on specifics.”

“Gov. (Charlie) Baker’s decisions to create a buddy system at mass vaccination sites and simultaneously strip community-based vaccination locations of doses are the latest in a long line of serious lapses in judgment that significantly hinder COVID vaccine distribution,” said Rausch, whose senate district includes much of the Attleboro area.

Senator Rausch co-sponsored a bill to prohibit MA public schools from using Native American mascots, logos, and team names. Mentions BR has signed onto the bill.

The Sun Chronicle editorial board supports Senator Rausch's proposal to move the MA state primary to June and how the plan will increase voter turnout.

“Even those who are eligible for a COVID vaccine cannot get an appointment unless they have internet and car access, ample time to spare, literacy in specific languages, and technological proficiency,” Rausch said. “This bill significantly strengthens immunization implementation and infrastructure statewide by advancing racial, economic, and regional equity in vaccination access and outreach.”

Senator Rausch is one of four lawmakers who filed a bill to improve equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines through the appointment of an equity director and creation of mobile vaccination program.

“I cannot shake the question of why it wasn’t done sooner, and why the website is such a disaster,” Rausch said of creating the hotline. “A public outcry from Stockbridge to Boston, and an emergency bill from the Legislature, should not have been necessary to achieve a call center or a vastly better website.”

 “Gov. Baker’s veto of the landmark climate roadmap legislation was inexcusable. He broke a promise to our Commonwealth through willful inaction on environmental justice, endangering our children, our grandchildren, and Massachusetts’ communities of color already facing the pernicious realities of climate injustice.”