The Boston Globe found itself faced with some shocking news yesterday:

“Working-age residents are leaving Massachusetts at a growing rate.”

Stop the presses! Replate the front page!

Why would anyone want to leave Boston, or what William F. Buckley used to call Sodom and Begorrah.

That was a long time ago of course. Begorrah’s long gone. Nothing is left but Sodom.

Can I suggest a few possibilities for the escalating exodus, in no particular order.

Rotten weather – eight months of winter, more rainy days than Seattle.

High housing costs – even as productive citizens flee, residential real estate prices in Massachusetts remain high.

This is because all the trust-funded virtue signalers who have those “Hate Has No Home Here” signs in their front yards are in fact totally committed to every NIMBY proposal to keep their hometowns migrant-free.

Illegal aliens, and all the calamities associated with Third Worlders from the non-working classes – more crime, disease, out-of-control welfare and fewer resources for non-criminal American citizens, especially children in the public schools.

Terrible infrastructure – the more money they spend, the worse everything managed by the hacks in the public sectors gets.

I’m talking here about, just for starters, roads, public education and the MBTA.

Just the other day, there was another story about how the Legislature is finally getting serious about “fixing” the T. Right, sure they are.

They’ll hire a few more “decarbonization” experts at $200 large to strategize about it.

The utter breakdown of law and order – as the illegals get away with driving around unregistered, uninsured, uninspected vehicles, everyone else figures, why the hell can’t I?

It’s the same way with everything else. The cops look the other way with illegals – if I’m wrong please let me know – so pretty soon everybody else feels why shouldn’t I get away with everything too.

Doesn’t matter what it is – shoplifting, fare-jumping, selling drugs, getting automobile insurance, etc.

What the Democrats seem to have forgotten, if they ever knew, is that no society ever has two sets of laws for very long, because no people are going to obey the rules that another group doesn’t have to follow.

How about taxes? How’s that millionaires’ tax working out for the hackerama? If you have a lot of assets, it takes a while to wind down everything, but already tax revenues have been mostly falling, from month to month.

You move to New Hampshire, Florida, Tennessee, Texas – no income taxes. That’s an extra 5% increase in take-home pay right there.

Political corruption – it’s not a top-of-mind issue for most people, but it’s real, and it makes all of the above societal blisters even worse, because everyone in the hackerama is just concerned with lining their own pockets.

Want a couple of examples?

How about the Spinelli’s Ravioli no-bid $10 million contract to provide millions for all the foreign freeloaders flopping in the old no-tell motels across the Commonwealth?

On the records of the Office of Campaign and Political Finance, the general manager of Spinelli’s is listed as Jeannie Giuggio. On March 27, she maxed out to Gov. Maura Healey — $1,000. Three months earlier, she maxed out for 2023 – another brand. Ditto for 2022.

Giuggio is 70 years old, and is listed on the state voter records as living in Rockport, a quaint seaside village which by the way has no “migrants” squatting on the dole.

The “manager” of Spinelli’s, according to OCPF records, is Rita Roberto, age 66. On state voting rolls, she’s registered at the same address in Rockport as Giuggio.

Roberto gave a grand to Maura Healey last Dec. 20 – the same day as Giuggio. Plus she’s given another $1,200 to Healey over the years.

A $10-million no-bid contract, to a company whose managers gave $5,200 to the governor. That’s an excellent ROI! I daresay most of the people who are leaving Massachusetts haven’t had the same kind of luck with their investments.

How about the City of Boston’s new “chief climate officer,” one Brian Swett. He’ll be making $195,000 a year.

It was another nationwide search, after he ponied up $3,250 to Mayor Michelle Wu, including the maximum $1,000 in December. (It’s always important to make sure that if you’re planning to remain in Massachusetts and grab big bucks in the hackerama, you have to make sure you’ve done the right thing every year. This is why so many of the maximum contributions come in December. Come January, you can max out again – right, Ms. Giuggio?)

It’s not that politics in other states isn’t dirty. It’s just that it’s even dirtier here in Massachusetts.

It used to be, though, that you could make the argument that the quality of life here in Massachusetts was in some certain ways superior.

MILFORD — It was the kind of match that Milford boys’ volleyball coach Andrew Mainini felt like his team would have lost a year ago. But his Scarlet Hawks are a year wiser and a year more experienced.

That paid off in a massive way on Thursday in an intersectional battle against Lexington.

Yes, the Scarlet Hawks posted 25-21, 25-21 and 28-26 wins to sweep the match with the Minutemen but it was his team’s ability to come through in the clutch that made Mainini smile.

“If we had this kind of game a year ago, it might have been reversed because Lexington was the more experienced team and we were the younger group,” Mainini said. “Now we’re the experienced team and it’s paying off.”

When things got a little off the rails at times for the Scarlet Hawks in this one, their dynamic middle hitting duo of Ryan Franklin and Joey Newman were there to steady the ship.

“Those two are so big and take up a lot of space at the net,” Mainini said. “We were looking at stats compared to last season and one of our biggest improvements is in blocking.”

Milford dominated much of game one and looked like it was going to breeze to a win, leading 21-11. But after a timeout, Lexington finally got its offense revved up thanks to solid hitting and blocking from Ale Lucianni and Nick Sanchez DeRojas.

The Minutemen cut the lead to 24-21 before outside hitter Alex Guerra put the first set away for Milford. It wouldn’t be the last time he’d come through in a tough spot for the Scarlet Hawks.

Game two was more like what was expected between the two teams as they traded runs in a game where the biggest lead was four points on either side.

Lexington used an 8-2 run to take control and looked like they were ready to even things up when it led 21-20. But the Scarlet Hawks responded with the last five points of the set, capped by a Gus Da Silva ace to take a two game lead.

Game three also was a pins and needle affair as Lexington led most of the way before Milford put together a 7-3 spurt to tie it at 18 as the teams were just getting warmed up.

Lexington had a chance to serve for the set at 24-22 but Guerra kept Milford alive. Newman followed with a net cord ace and Guerra had another kill to get the Scarlet Hawks to match point. Lexington, however, fought it off and then did it a second time after another Guerra spike. But the third time wasn’t lucky for the Mustangs as Franklin put away the clinching point.