Developing that passion for reading is crucial, according to Jim Trelease, author of the best-seller, The Read-Aloud Handbook.. Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain, he writes in the Handbook.. You could even call it a commercial, conditioning the child to associate books and print with pleasure.. This reading commercial is critical when competition for a child's attention is so fierce.
Massachusetts has an unique unposted limit law. If a limit is not posted outside of a thickly settled area, you are not speeding unless you exceed 50 (divided highway) or 40 (undivided) for a quarter mile. In a thickly settled area other than a school zone, exceeding 30 for an eighth of a mile is speeding.
Massachusetts has raised the minimum wage to $10.00 per hour as of January 2016, and it is scheduled to raise again to $11.00 on January 1, 2017. Minimum wage had been raised from $8.00 per hour to $9.00 per hour in January 2015. Massachusetts has a special minimum wage rate for agricultural workers (currently $8 per hour) except if the worker is 17 years old or an employer's immediate family member.