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Inthenews

By Victoria McGrane

GLOBE STAFF

Representative Joseph P.

Kennedy III, the last member of

the Democratic dynasty serving

in Washington, plans to formal-

ly announce Saturday that he is

launching a primary challenge

to Senator Edward J. Markey,

an audacious political move

that could open fissures within

the Democratic Party and re-

shape the Massachusetts politi-

cal landscape.

Kennedy will make his an-

nouncement at a breakfast with

supporters and local communi-

ty members at East Boston So-

cial Centers, according to two

people close to him. From

there, Kennedy will tour the

state through Monday, high-

lighting issues he plans to cen-

ter his campaign on, including

health care access, mental

health and addiction issues, cli-

mate change, and civil rights,

the people said.

Kennedy informed Markey

of his decision Wednesday, one

of the people added.

“Elections are about choices,

and Ed looks forward to spend-

ing the next 14 months cam-

paigning hard every day to

show the people of the Com-

monwealth why he’s the right

choice,” John Walsh, Markey’s

senior campaign adviser, said

in a statement Wednesday.

Backed by his famous sur-

name and relative youth, Ken-

nedy, 38, will enter the race as

the front-runner, according to

recent polls. But Markey, 73,

has insisted publicly and pri-

vately he will put up a tough

fight to stay in Congress, where

he began serving in 1976.

Kennedy is no insurgent,

but his announcement will be

the starting gun of a genera-

tional showdown in one of the

most closely watched primary

KENNEDY, Page A

By Matt Stout

GLOBE STAFF

Working to fulfill Governor Charlie

Baker’s campaign promise to shorten the

lines at the Registry of Motor Vehicles,

state officials gave the initiative a name

that evoked a life-and-death struggle. And

the “War on Wait Times” did not go un-

watched.

Baker’s inner circle received daily re-

ports on how quickly branches turned

over customers. His top aide repeatedly

prodded the Registry’s leadership on dips

in wait-time performance or gaps in the

data. And one of his deputy chiefs of staff

offered input on details as minute as

where a logo goes on a Registry Web page,

according to hundreds of pages of e-mails

obtained by the Globe.

The intense focus that Baker’s office

put on Registry queues is now inviting its

RMV, Page A

By Meghan E. Irons

GLOBE STAFF

Just before the first school bell

chimed, Jacquelyn Indrisano

grabbed her cellphone and

tapped out an urgent text mes-

sage to one of her students.

“Get up!” she wrote. “Get up!’’

The teenager was on Indrisa-

no’s “hot list” of East Boston High

School students who struggle to

rise in time each morning or skip

classes altogether. As their guid-

ance counselor, she is both school

mother and enforcer to about

260 ninth-graders. She sees stu-

dents’ pain and problems up

close and doles out hugs and ad-

vice — and tough love when nec-

essary.

“I have had students who have

told me, ‘My mom works too

much’ or ‘I don’t want to burden

her,’ ” Indrisano said. “And that is

GUIDANCE COUNSELORS, Page A

Kennedyset

toannounce

Senaterun

MarqueematchupagainstMarkey

couldroil,defineDemocraticParty

‘WhenIwasinhighschool,myguidancecounselordidnotdoanyofthis.’

JACQUELYN INDRISANO, counselor at East Boston High

Givingguidance(andaidinacrisis,

privatecounsel,basicnecessities ...)

Today’sschoolcounselorsareswampedandthestateofferslittlesupport

PHOTOS BY CRAIG F. WALKER/GLOBE STAFF

Guidance counselor Jacquelyn Indrisano embraced a ninth-grader outside her office at East Boston High School.

Indrisano, speaking with a parent about a student’s attendance, is both school

mother and enforcer for about 260 ninth-graders.

JONATHAN WIGGS/GLOBE STAFF

Representative Joseph P.

Kennedy III has rejected the

argument his primary bid

would hurt the party.

JESSICA RINALDI/GLOBE STAFF

City Councilor Michelle Wu and her son, Blaise, 4, picked up Legos in her

City Hall office, where Blaise spent the day because of a mixup in his

placement in the Boston Public Schools.B1.

AsanRMVcrisis HARDLESSONSONPRE-K

grew,Bakeraides

focusedelsewhere

By Matt Stout

GLOBE STAFF

State and city leaders said

Wednesday that they are

weighing stricter regulations

on the sale of electronic ciga-

rettes and flavored tobacco

products, the latest in a series

of efforts that elected officials

have pushed amid an explo-

sion of vaping-related illnesses

nationwide.

Governor Charlie Baker

said he is evaluating what

emergency options the state

has to address the sale of vap-

ing products, and Mayor Mar-

tin J. Walsh proposed regula-

tions in Boston to help curb

youth vaping by limiting

where mint and menthol nico-

tine products can be pur-

chased.

The announcements come

after New York and Michigan

this week outlawed the sale of

flavored e-cigarettes, and Pres-

ident Trump said officials have

plans to ban similar products

at the federal level in the wake

of a nationwide outbreak. So

far, officials have said there are

38 possible cases in Massachu-

setts of a mysterious lung ill-

ness linked to vaping, includ-

ing among teenagers.

VAPING, Page A

Stricter rules on

vaping considered

Walshcallsfor

limitsonflavors

‘Ithinkwehave

momentum.This

wouldbeafirst-

in-the-nationban.’

REP.DANIELLEGREGOIRE

on proposed legislation in

Massachusetts that would

prohibit the sale of all flavored

tobacco products

By Deirdre Fernandes
GLOBE STAFF
More than 60 of MIT’s lead-
ing female faculty members
raised alarms about the uni-
versity’s ties to disgraced fi-
nancier Jeffrey Epstein in a let-
ter Wednesday, and several lat-
er questioned the school’s
commitment to women aca-
demics in a tense meeting with

president L. Rafael Reif.

In the nearly two-hour facul-

ty gathering to discuss Epstein’s

donations to the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology and the

university leadership’s han-

dling of the issue, Reif offered

an emotional apology and ac-

knowledged that the universi-

ty’s culture had led it to accept

money from the convicted sex

offender.

“I understand that I have

let you down and damaged

your trust in me and that our

actions have injured both the

institute’s reputation and the

fabric of our community,” Reif

said according to a statement

released by the university. “I

am deeply sorry.”

MIT, Page A

MIT female faculty confront president

ReifapologizesonEpsteincase,pushesculturechange ‘Iunderstandthat

Ihavelet

youdown

and

damaged

yourtrust

inme.’

L. RAFAEL REIF, MIT leader