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For more than 20 years, Eleanor McCullen has advocated for life outside of abortion facilities in Massachusetts. She's not a sign-waving protester. McCullen works as a sidewalk counselor, approaching women entering abortion facilities and trying to understand their difficult position. After a few minutes of discussion, she gently
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A group representing several Massachusetts crisis pregnancy centers says Governor Maura Healey's $1 million public campaign against them will hurt women with unplanned pregnancies. "This politically motivated campaign will negatively impact women the most, specifically the many women who want to parent and rely on the free
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Are you a librarian dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion? If so, the city of Cambridge is interested in hiring you. Cambridge Public Library recently posted a job opportunity for a "Digital Equity Coordinator," a position that exists "[u]nder the guidance of the Digital Equity Manager,
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For the vast majority of people, the experience of Covid lockdowns is past, a thing almost of distant memory. But for some, it lingers. Michelle Efendi, 37, a mother of four who lived in Randolph, Massachusetts at the time, protested against vaccine passports and mask mandates at the Massachusetts State
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Members of a western Massachusetts school committee got an earful this past week about a police search at a middle school for a graphic novel called Gender Queer. On December 8, 2023, an anonymous complaint was made to Great Barrington police that a sexually explicit book had been shown to
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Police investigated a claim last month that a sexually explicit book had been shown to children at a middle school in Great Barrington, a town in western Massachusetts. The book, Gender Queer: A Memoir, by Maia Kobabe, a self-described trans nonbinary person who uses "e/em/eir" pronouns,
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Boston city councilors are looking for ways to diversity owners of marijuana businesses in the city. The discussion will focus on whether Boston should allow leased kitchens for making marijuana, the idea being that renting buildings is less expensive than owning them, and, as a result, minorities would be able
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A group of parents in Lexington have published a petition demanding an opt-out for an elementary school class that introduces concepts of sexual orientation and transgenderism. The petition specifically mentions a curriculum for first-graders that teachers at Bowman Elementary School in Lexington have developed called "Serious Talks," which