The Boston Globe - 11.03.2020

B2 Metro The Boston Globe WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2020

By Matt Berg

GLOBE CORRESPONDENT

W

ith the feeling of spring in the air, Mas-

sachusetts is beginning to look the part,

as a streak of above average tempera-

tures provides a stark contrast to win-

ter.

The meteorological spring, which

began March 1, ushered in an unusually warm stretch. Mon-

day reached a high of 71 degrees, causing people to shed

their jackets and bask in the sun.

The temperature was “nearly 25 degrees above average,” said Bryce Wil-

liams, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Norton.

NASA captured the seasonal changes off the coast in satellite images

shot with two different instruments.

Longer days mean that primary producers, such as plants, phytoplank-

ton, and other organisms off the coast are slowly waking up, said Michael

Carlowicz, the managing editor of NASA Earth Observatory, in a statement.

Spring weather brings both sunlight and nutrients, which the organisms

need to survive.

Observing Earth in 36 different spectral bands, NASA scientist Norman

Kuring used the full spectrum captured by the Aqua Moderate Resolution

Imaging Spectroradiometer to make the phytoplankton

blooms visible, Carlowicz said. The data was collected on

Feb. 23.

“The detailed swirls in the chlorophyll-rich water are

real; Kuring simply separates and enhances certain spectral

bands to tease out the details,” Carlowicz said.

Measurements of Chlorophyll A, a specific form of chlo-

rophyll that absorbs blue and red light and reflects green

light, taken from Feb. 23 to March 8 can be seen in the pho-

tograph capturing the Atlantic Ocean, Carlowicz said. The

lighter green and blue areas offshore show “the locations of

blooming phytoplankton, suspended sediments, and shallow shoals and

banks.”

The image showing Cape Cod and the islands was obtained using the

Operational Land Imager on Feb. 24, Carlowicz said.

“Spring is a time of great change, turbulence, and productivity in the

North Atlantic Ocean,” Carlowicz said. “As snow and ice melt and spring

rains fall, rivers surge with water and carry nutrients into the coastal

ocean.”

Matt Berg can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on

Twitter @mattberg33.

Satellite images capture seasonal changes

NASA EARTH OBSERVATORY PHOTOS

This NASA image shows the phytoplankton bloom off the coast of New England. Below the image shows chlorophyll-rich water.

AROUND THE REGION

CONCORD, N.H.

State House gun ban

heading to court

A Republican lawmaker took his fight against a

rule banning firearms inside New Hampshire’s

400-member House of Representatives to the

state supreme court on Tuesday, asking it to

weigh in on the issue. For the last decade, rules

on allowing guns in Representatives Hall, includ-

ing the anteroom and public gallery overlooking

it, have flipped back and forth, depending on

which party held the majority. After four years in

the minority, Democrats regained control of the

House in 2018, and one of their first actions was

to restore the rule that Republicans had thrown

out in 2015. Republican Representative John

Burt, of Goffstown, said the ban was as absurd as

banning women or minorities from the House.

He sued the speaker of the House of Representa-

tives, but a judge decided to dismiss the com-

plaint, saying that the Legislature had the au-

thority to make its own rules.The first ban on

weapons in the House was enacted in 1971. Sup-

porters of the ban last year called it common

sense, given that children frequently visit the

State House. They noted that in 2017, a House

lawmaker dropped a loaded revolver onto the

floor as she arrived late to a committee hearing.

Another lawmaker dropped his handgun at a

hearing in 2012. Neither weapon discharged.

(AP)

PROVIDENCE

Bill would clarify access

to Rhode Island shore

Rhode Island lawmakers introduced a bill that

would create a new exemption in state criminal

trespassing law. A bill proposed in the House last

month plans to bring a resolution to the issue

surrounding where private rights end and public

access begins on the Rhode Island coasts. Cur-

rently, state law marks the public-access bound-

ary through an average measurement of high wa-

ter heights taken over a nearly two-decade cycle.

Residents who are knowingly standing on the

landward side of the so-called high tide line

could be arrested for trespassing. The proposed

legislation would make it so that people wouldn’t

be arrested or charged if they were trying to exer-

cise their constitutional privileges within 10 feet

of the most recent high tide line on the sandy or

rocky shore. Supporters argue it would bring

clarity to the long-standing issue of access to the

state’s shores while avoiding costly lawsuits if

they tried to take the property or declare it pub-

lic. (AP)

EAST HAVEN, CONN.

Court reinstates

‘biscuits affair’ lawsuit

A lawsuit brought by a retired police depart-

ment employee was reinstated Tuesday by the

2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan.

Dyanna Green can try to prove that her punish-

ment for taking a container of biscuits from the

department’s communal refrigerator was part of

age discrimination, the court ruled. Green was

58 in 2012 when she says the department’s boss-

es created a hostile work environment to force

retirement after hiring someone else half her age

to replace a recently retired worker in the divi-

sion. Facing a disciplinary hearing, she quit. In a

complaint filed in December 2014, Green main-

tained she took one canisters of buttermilk bis-

cuits dough to her desk, planning to bake them

at home and bring them back for the depart-

ment’s officers and staff, the appeals court said.

But before Green went home, a police lieutenant

sent an e-mail to department employees de-

manding that the missing canister be returned.

When Green tried to return it, she encountered

the police chief standing by the refrigerator,

which had yellow “crime scene” tape sealing it,

the appeals court said. Green was placed on ad-

ministrative leave with pay. She later resigned.

POLICE BLOTTER

RSHOOTINGARRESTA man, 23, was charged

with attempted murder after he allegedly shot

another man in the back multiple times in Ran-

dolph Monday afternoon, police said. The victim

of the shooting on Ward Street, identified as a

28-year-old Randolph man, was taken to the hos-

pital but was expected to survive. The suspect,

identified as Jason Mukoro of Randolph, fled on

foot, officials said. He was found near his house

Monday night and police arrested him without

incident. After obtaining a search warrant, offi-

cers searched his house and found the clothes he

wore during the shooting and 10.2 grams of co-

caine, officials said. No weapons were found.

Mukoro faces several charges, including attempt-

ed murder, assault with a dangerous weapon,

and possession with intent to distribute drugs,

officials said.

RWORKPLACESTABBINGA law enforcement

dragnet captured a Chelsea man who had fled in-

to a marsh area in Wakefield after allegedly stab-

bing a person at a workplace and sending two

schools into lockdown Tuesday morning, officials

said. A worker at Produce Connections, a pro-

duce supplier, had cut another employee with a

knife, police said. The injuries were not life-

threatening, police said. The suspect, Elvin Guit-

errez, 34, of Chelsea, had with the knife, police

said. Wakefield officers, along with state troop-

ers, K9s, and a helicopter from the Massachu-

setts State Police, searched for Guiterrez in the

swampy area near the business, police said. Two

schools in the area went into lockdown after they

were notified of the situation, police said. Guiter-

rez was reported in custody around 9:25 a.m.,

police wrote on Twitter. He was charged with as-

sault with intent to murder and assault and bat-

tery with a dangerous weapon.

RSTRIPCLUBFIGHTA second member of the

Hells Angels motorcycle club has been charged

in connection with an altercation at a Rhode Is-

land strip club, police said. Nicholas Lourenco,

29, turned himself in Tuesday on charges of sim-

ple assault and disorderly conduct, Providence

police Major David Lapatin told The Providence

Journal. Lourenco was arrested based on a re-

view of surveillance video from the Cadillac

Lounge, police said. Lourenco, unprovoked,

punched a man who worked at the club on Feb.

29, causing a facial injury, Lapatin said. It’s not

clear if Lourenco has an attorney. Joseph Lancia,

a man described by authorities as the president

of the Rhode Island chapter of the Hells Angels,

also faces charges of simple assault and disorder-

ly conduct stemming from the altercation. (AP)

RSKIMMINGDEVICEPLOTA Florida man prose-

cutors say was involved in a scheme to attach

“skimming” devices to pumps at gas stations

across New England to steal the debit and credit

account numbers from thousands of unsuspect-

ing drivers faces federal charges. Luis Angel

Naranjo Rodriguez, 29, of Hialeah, Fla., was

charged Monday with possessing 15 or more

counterfeit access devices, and possession of de-

vice-making equipment, the US attorney's office

in Boston said in a statement. He was arrested in

Concord, Mass. in November after police spotted

him at a closed gas station next to an unlocked

gas pump with keys in the lock, prosecutors said.

Authorities said officers later found multiple

skimming devices and pump keys. More than

5,600 account numbers appeared to have been

stolen, prosecutors said. Naranjo Rodriguez was

held pending a detention hearing in Boston fed-

eral court scheduled for Friday. (AP)

GET SMART

By Felice Belman
GLOBE STAFF
Barring some unforeseen wrinkle, it ap-
pears the 2020 presidential election will, as
every presidential election before it, be the
Year of the Man. Massachusetts Senator Eliza-
beth Warren’s departure from the Democratic
race makes her the latest in a long line of poli-
ticians who tried to be the first woman elected
president. Many of their efforts have been ob-
scured by time. In honor of Women’s History
Month, here are 10 would-be female presi-
dents. See how many you know:

1. Long before US women even gained the
   right to vote, she was the first woman to run
   for president, as the candidate for the Equal
   Rights Party in 1872. She was a suffragist and
   an advocate for free love which, in her day,
   was understood to mean the freedom to mar-
   ry, divorce, and have children without govern-
   ment interference.


2. In 1964, this Republican candidate ran
   in the GOP primary against Barry Goldwater.
   A US senator, she was best known for oppos-
   ing Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Soviet fear-mon-
   gering. “I don’t want to see the Republican
   Party ride to a political victory on the Four
   Horsemen of Calumny — Fear, Ignorance, Big-
   otry, and Smear,” she said.


3. She was the first black woman elected to
   Congress and ran for the Democratic presi-
   dential nomination in 1972. The next year, in
   a book about her experience, she wrote: “The
   United States was said not to be ready to elect
   aCatholictothePresidencywhenAlSmith
   ran in the 1920’s. But Smith’s nomination
   may have helped pave the way for the success-
   ful campaign John F. Kennedy waged in 1960.
   Who can tell? What I hope most is that now
   there will be others who will feel themselves
   as capable of running for high political office
   as any wealthy, good-looking white male."


4. She was a congresswoman from Colora-
   do who jumped in the 1988 Democratic race
   — briefly. She had chaired the campaign of
   Gary Hart, and when he dropped out, his sup-
   porters urged her to get in.


5. She was the first black woman elected to
   the US Senate. She ran for president in the
   2004 Democratic primary but dropped out
   before the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses.


6. She served in the Cabinets of Ronald
   Reagan and George H.W. Bush and was later
   elected to the US Senate from North Carolina.
   She entered the 2000 Republican primary but
   dropped out before any votes were cast.


7. A Massachusetts resident, she was the
   Green Party nominee for president in 2012
   and 2016.


8. She ran against Donald Trump and a
   long list of others in the 2016 Republican pri-
   mary. Trump disparaged her appearance and
   her voice. Asked during a debate about Mr.
   Trump’s comments about her looks, she said:
   “I think women all over this country heard
   very clearly what Mr. Trump said.”


9. She ran for president in 1884 as the
   nominee of the National Equal Rights Party.
   Her running mate was also a woman: Mariet-
   ta Stow.


10. A congresswoman from Hawaii, she
    ran a short-lived campaign for president in
    1972 to draw attention to the anti-war move-
    ment. “My candidacy offers a real and tangi-
    ble alternative,” she said, “based — if any one
    word can be singled out —on humanism.”

ANSWERS

1. Victoria Woodhull


2. Margaret Chase Smith


3. Shirley Chisholm


4. Pat Schroeder


5. Carol Moseley Braun


6. Elizabeth Dole


7. Jill Stein


8. Carly Fiorina


9. Belva Ann Lockwood


10. Patsy Mink

Felice Belman can be reached at
[email protected].

A history of

valiant attempts

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