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Massachusetts Residents Have Monday Deadline For Offering Healey Administration Feedback On Proposed Sex-Ed Framework

Bay Staters have until Monday, August 28 to offer public comment on the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education's proposed health and physical education for the state's public schools. After that, the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is supposed to consider this feedback,

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Abortion Truth Campaign Pushes Worcester To Pass Crisis Pregnancy Center Ordinance

Abortion Truth Campaign, a pro-abortion advocacy group, is pushing Worcester and other Massachusetts municipalities to pass local legislation restricting pro-life crisis pregnancy centers. "As cities and towns in Massachusetts grapple this summer with a growing number of patients traveling to the Commonwealth for abortion care – along with an increasingly

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Tom Carroll Leaving Job As Superintendent of Archdiocese of Boston Schools

Superintendent of the Archdiocese of Boston schools Thomas Carroll plans to leave at the end of the 2023-2024 school year. He has held the position since 2019, including during the Covid-19 pandemic. Carroll had a high profile in the archdiocese and nationally. One example:  He appeared at a roundtable discussion

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Kevin Millar Calls Red Sox Homerun Seconds Before It Happens

Red Sox color commentator and former player Kevin Millar called a first-inning Red Sox homerun seconds before it happened. "He's going deep," Millar said of Adam Duvall as the hitter got settled in the batter's box during the first inning Monday, August 21. "

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Massachusetts Climate Protesters Disrupt Maura Healey’s Nantucket Fundraiser

By Alison Kuznitz State House News Service

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Pennsylvania Governor Headlining New Hampshire Democratic Convention Next Month

The governor of Pennsylvania plans to visit the Granite State next month. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is slated to appear as the keynote speaker at the New Hampshire Democratic Party's annual convention next month; it is scheduled to take place on Saturday, September 30 in Bedford, New Hampshire,

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Chris Sununu Says Nominating Trump Would Hurt Down-Ballot Candidates

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu is no fan of former President Donald Trump. Sununu wants the Republican Party to nominate someone else for president. He recently contented that with Trump at the top of the ticket, Republicans will suffer nationwide.

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Elizabeth Warren Wants Harvard To Cut Certain Sports

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Cambridge) has an idea to make Harvard University more diverse:  cut certain sports teams. Warren expressed this opinion when asked if elite colleges like Harvard should end legacy preference in admissions by CBS Boston's Jon Keller on Sunday, August 20.