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Left-Leaning Connecticut Supreme Court Allows Sandy Hook Shooting Parents To Sue Gun Manufacturer

The Connecticut Supreme Court has decided 4-3 to allow the families of victims of a mass-shooting at an elementary school to sue the manufacturer of the gun the killer used in the attack. Adam Lanza shot to death 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in December

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Ranked-Choice Voting Supporters See Opening in Fall River Mayoral Recall; Voters in Vermont’s Largest City Feel Differently About It

Ranked-choice-voting advocates are using the recall election of Mayor Jasiel Correia II this week in Fall River to argue why their preferred system should become law in Massachusetts. Correia, who is under federal indictment for fraud, was recalled by a 61 percent majority of voters Tuesday, March 12, but elected

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez May Not Know Much, But Her Handlers Think They Do

How does someone as little-informed as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez become the most famous member of Congress almost overnight? Well-funded radical leftists behind the scenes who scripted her campaign are also scripting her public statements, according to an article by Frank Hawkins in The American Thinker.

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Cape Anti-Pollution Group Targets Thin Plastic Bags

Banning thin-film plastic bags is one of the top priorities of a group seeking to reduce pollution on Cape Cod. Also identified were getting people to carry out their trash wherever they go, reducing contaminants in storm water runoff from roads from getting into the aquifer below ground, reducing cigarette

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Massachusetts House Passes Conversion Therapy Ban; Senate Sponsor Waffling on Child-Abuse Provision

The Massachusetts House of Representatives has passed a bill that would ban conversion therapy for minors, 147-8. The bill threatens therapists with loss of their state license to practice if they engage in techniques designed to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of someone 17 or younger in Massachusetts.

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Ban Tackle Football? Some Massachusetts Legislators Want To Make It Illegal Before Seventh Grade

Pop Warner football might become a thing of the past in the state if some Massachusetts legislators succeed in banning tackling in youth football before seventh grade. Massachusetts H. 2007 states: "No child in grade seven or under shall play, practice, or otherwise participate in organized tackle football …"

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Law Unclear in Massachusetts On Whether Schools On Hook for Sexual Misconduct By Employees

Statutes and case law in Massachusetts make it unclear whether a school is civilly liable for an employee who engages in sexual misconduct, a former state Supreme Judicial Court justice said. John Greaney, who recently retired from the court, predicted that the state's highest court would accept a

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Rhode Island’s All-Nine-Months Abortion Bill A Close Call in State Senate Judiciary Committee

The Rhode Island Senate's Judiciary Committee appears to be divided 5-4 in favor of a bill that would effectively make abortion legal throughout pregnancy, although anti-abortion leaders in the Senate could join the committee vote and tilt it the other way, according to The Providence Journal. The Rhode