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Ayanna Pressley Says Housing Is A Human Right

U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Hyde Park) views housing as a human right. Pressley called for increased investments to be made in housing on social media this week, calling it a human right.

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Elon Musk Blasts Elizabeth Warren

Tesla and Twitter chief executive officer Elon Musk is no fan of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Cambridge). The uberwealthy businessman ripped Warren in response to a letter that Warren wrote to Tesla's board asking if investors have been harmed by Musk's tenure as Twitter'

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Massachusetts Has Already Spoken: We Don’t Want Physician-Assisted Suicide

Note: If you or someone you know is in a crisis and needs help, call 911 for emergency services or call the 24-hour 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline hotline at 988 to be connected to a trained counselor at a suicide crisis center near you. Additionally, you can also call

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Massachusetts Court Decision On Assisted Suicide Respects Liberty and Life

We congratulate the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for resisting the temptation to invent a previously unknown constitutional right to kill yourself with help from a doctor. As the court notes in its opinion in Kligler vs. Healey this week, physician-assisted suicide belongs to the political process – to state legislators and

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Assisted Suicide Not A Constitutional Right In Massachusetts, State Supreme Judicial Court Decides

Assisted suicide is not a right under the Massachusetts Constitution, the state's Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. "Although we recognize the paramount importance and profound significance of all end-of-life decisions, after careful consideration, we conclude that the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights does not reach so far as

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Non-Binary Student Population Up 366 Percent In Three Years In Massachusetts Public Schools

More Massachusetts children are identifying as non-binary each school year. The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's public school enrollment data used to break down gender into two categories: male and female. However, since the start of the 2019-2020 school year, the state has also been tracking

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Massachusetts Nearly Back To Pre-Pandemic Job Levels

By Chris Lisinski State House News Service

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Maura Healey Congratulates Charlie Baker on New NCAA Role

Massachusetts Governor-elect Maura Healey is happy for lame-duck Governor Charlie Baker. Healey recently congratulated Baker on his new role. Baker is set to begin serving as president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association in March 2023.