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Democratic Bill Would Provide Millions In Abortion Funding To Massachusetts Public Universities

If some Democratic state legislators have their way, there will be more taxpayer funding for abortion in Massachusetts. A bill (H 2399 / S 1470) would require public universities in Massachusetts to provide medication abortion, including abortion pills, to students. It would also require them to provide referrals for abortion services

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Boston Public Schools Didn’t Send NewBostonPost Boston School Committee Member’s Anti-White Texts When Requested

A member of the Boston School Committee stepped down this week as a result of anti-white text messages she sent in October last year. Lorna Rivera made anti-white remarks via text message on the day of a hearing where school committee chairman Michael Loconto was heard mocking the names of

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List Names Provincetown The Best Town For Cycling In America

Where's the best place in the country to go cycling? One list says it's Provincetown, Massachusetts. The town known for it's high population of homosexuals landed at the top of the list of PeopleForBike's top-10 small cities for biking in the United

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Charlie Baker Campaign Raised Less Than $4,000 In May 2021

Still think Charlie's running for re-election? Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker had another limited month in terms of fund raising in May.

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Connecticut Backs Out Of Transportation Climate Initiative

And then there were two states remaining. Connecticut no longer wants to be a part of the cap-and-trade Transportation and Climate Initiative, leaving Massachusetts and Rhode Island as the only remaining states that are a part of the compact planning to charge a carbon fee on fuel providers. Washington D.

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Little Appetite For Rent Control Among Candidates for Mayor of Boston

Is rent control the solution to the lack of affordable housing in the city of Boston? Not really, the city's mayoral candidates say.

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Six Wrong Things About the Massachusetts GOP Flap Over Jim Lyons and Same-Sex-Couple Adoption

Massachusetts Republicans lost control of the state House of Representatives in 1948 because they managed to get themselves seen as taking an anti-Catholic position on birth control. Now, many Republicans in the state are demanding that a Catholic chairman of the party disavow Catholic teaching about marriage and children or

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Jim Lyons Rejects Republican ‘Cancel Culture,’ Refuses To Call On GOP State Committee Member To Resign

Republican members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives gave party chairman Jim Lyons an ultimatum: condemn a conservative state GOP committee member for expressing a conservative point of view or resign. Lyons addressed the topic in a statement late Friday night, acknowledging the clamor but rejecting what he called "