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Maura Healey

Maura Healey A Hard No On Tipped Worker Ballot Question

By Colin A. Young State House News Service

Massachusetts

Future unclear for Massachusetts Common Core opponents after court ruling

BOSTON — A week after a Supreme Judicial Court ruling delivered a fatal blow to their efforts to put the future of Common Core educational standards into the hands of voters, the woman who spearheaded the doomed ballot initiative said she's only just begun to consider what the next

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Gun rights group pulls trigger on lawsuit against Mass. AG Healey

BOSTON — The firearm industry finally pulled the trigger on a lawsuit that gun rights groups vowed to file against Attorney General Maura Healey, who made waves in July when she announced a crackdown on so-called "copycat" assault weapons. The lawsuit, filed in federal court, accuses Healey of issuing

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Massachusetts AG refuses to disclose details of gun law interpretation process

BOSTON — A month after Attorney General Maura Healey caught gun owners by surprise with a new interpretation of state firearms laws, citing the prevalence of what she described as illegal "copycat" assault weapons, questions remain as to how she arrived at the decision and whether Gov. Baker knew

Attorney General Maura Healey

Attorney General announces more human trafficking indictments

BOSTON – Attorney General Maura Healey on Thursday announced the indictments of five people in connection with three separate human trafficking schemes in Massachusetts, bringing the number of people charged under the 2011 human trafficking law to 25. "There's a commonly-held misperception out there that women willfully chose