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Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Kingston is criticizing Senator Elizabeth Warren's call to get rid of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, accusing her of pandering "to the far left." Warren called for eliminating the federal agency that enforces immigration law during a rally
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Clarence Thomas is the only member of the U.S. Supreme Court on record as supporting overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion throughout the country, an Associated Press news story points out. That leads some observers to think that even if President Donald Trump replaces pro-Roe
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A veteran reporter for The Republican of Springfield and its web site, MassLive.com, has resigned after satirically claiming in a tweet that the Maryland newspaper shooter dropped a red Make America Great Again hat at the scene. Conor Berry offered an apology "to all good, hardworking reporters and
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The Massachusetts House of Representatives has passed a bill banning so-called "conversion therapy" for children – but only after dropping a provision that would have defined seeking it as child abuse. The measure would make it illegal for licensed mental-health therapists to offer techniques for patients under 18 years
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Almost three-quarters of the Massachusetts Senate voted conservative less than 10 percent of the time in 2017, forming a "Coalition of the Radical Left," according to the American Conservative Union. The conservative lobbying organization, based in Alexandria, Virginia, rates federal and state lawmakers according to conservative principles on
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Massachusetts can't sustain 29 state college campuses and within the next 10 years will have to reduce the number, the president of the University of Massachusetts said. "Demographically, there's no way that 29 will survive," said Marty Meehan, president of the University of Massachusetts,
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A proposed referendum asking voters to approve an income surtax on millionaires won't go to the ballot this year, because the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that it violates the state constitution. The court ruled 5-2 on Monday that the ballot question, which sought a 4-percentage-point surtax
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Fighting off "something for nothing" ballot questions that would hurt business owners could cost as much as $10 million apiece because the proposals are so popular, an advocate for Massachusetts business owners said. "The long-term lesson may be a fundamental change in the way employers approach ballot