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BOSTON – Gov. Charlie Baker and some lawmakers are refusing to budge on a bill that would give transgender people access to public restrooms and locker rooms based on their sexual identity rather than their physical gender, despite increased pressure from activists. Nicknamed by conservatives as the "bathroom bill,"
second amendment
(CNSNews.com) — Before President Obama announced new executive actions on gun control, a Gallup Poll released Monday shows that "guns/gun control" ranked near the bottom of Americans' most pressing concerns in 2015. In fact, guns/gun control ranked 19th out of 23 top problems facing the
new hampshire
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Edward Snowden will appear via video link as a featured speaker at a New Hampshire convention of libertarian activists. The Valley News reports (http://bit.ly/1RUCFLK) that the former National Security Agency contractor will participate in a 30-minute discussion and Q&A at the
Elizabeth Warren
CAMBRIDGE — Bill Barlow, a third year student at Harvard Law School, won't shy away from challenging student activists who are demanding the school erase any references to its slaveholding founder and insisting that students be forced to take classes taught from the Critical Race perspective. Yet Barlow, who
Massachusetts
BOSTON (AP) — The grassroots activists who upended Boston's well-funded and star-studded Olympic bid are exporting their expertise. Leaders of No Boston 2024 and No Boston Olympics are showing opposition groups elsewhere how they helped turn public opinion against the city's bid for the 2024 summer games,
Massachusetts
STATE HOUSE — The University of Massachusetts Foundation will divest its $770 million endowment from investments in coal companies, marking a victory for climate change activists looking to bring financial pressures to bear on carbon emitters. The UMass Foundation Board, which manages the five-campus system's charitable contributions and endowment,
activists
"In politics," said Nietzsche, "the professor plays the comic role." There was a time, on American college campuses, when this may have been true. In the '70s and '80s, American academics were, indeed, like clowns – tenured radicals who fed their students a daily diet
activists
Should physician-assisted suicide be legal in Massachusetts? Some say the measure helps people seeking to avoid a painful death, others believe unintended consequences could easily arise when insurers are left to choose expensive, life-prolonging treatments or cheap, fatal drugs. What do you believe? YES NO UNDECIDED
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