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Worcester city manager Eric Batista sent two draft ordinances targeting pro-life crisis pregnancy to the city council yesterday while calling both unconstitutional. "We do not believe that the requested ordinances will effectively enhance protections for pregnant people or those seeking medical resources, which should be their ultimate goal,"
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Ranked-choice voting supporters are trying to get a ballot question on the 2024 state ballot in Massachusetts, four years after state voters rejected it. Ranked choice voting, which comes into play when there are three or more candidates for an elected office, asks voters to rank their choices, if they
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Massachusetts lawmakers are considering massive changes to state gun regulations, including a move to ban most semi-automatic weapons. "This bill would apply the severest firearms restrictions that Massachusetts residents have ever faced," said Robert Leider, an assistant professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University,
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Several Massachusetts municipalities have considered passing measures regulating crisis pregnancy centers during the past year and a half, but have pulled back. Is that because the state's chief law enforcement office has told them they won't survive court challenges? Last week, two Worcester officials revealed that
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A proposed bill in the Massachusetts legislature would lay the foundation for increasing the racial diversity of the Massachusetts judiciary. The bill seeks to establish a fifteen-member legislative commission "to study the potential for legislative action to increase racial diversity among the judiciary in the Commonwealth."
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Several Massachusetts public libraries are recommending a book for children that tells the story of a young girl who thinks she's a boy. The book, titled Jack (Not Jackie), which Amazon advertises for children ages 4 through 8, describes an older sister's reactions to her younger
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Westford selectmen have opted to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day — but most of them don't seem too happy about it. Several members of the town's highest board showed reluctance to ditch Columbus Day during a recent public meeting. But the board ultimately voted 4-1
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Arlington School Committee members have laid the foundation this past week for policies ensuring students are called by their preferred pronouns in any circumstance and allowing students to play sports with the sex with which they identify. "It is about making safe spaces for children, and as a former