NBP Staff

Five Massachusetts Conservative Victories of the 2010s

Do you think of Massachusetts as the most left-tilting state in the country?  Many people do. Yet during the past decade…

Massachusetts Carbon Tax Supporters Should Stop Acting Like Europeans, Opponents Say

Pro-tax planners are acting more like Eurocrats than Americans in their attempt to push a regional tax on carbon through the…

Trump Continuing ‘Attack’ on Illegal Immigrants, AG Healey Says, As Sanctuary State Hearing Nears

President Donald Trump and his administration are attacking immigrants in the United States, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said this week – days…

Sixteen of 47 Massachusetts Mayors Endorse ROE Act Abortion Expansion Bill

Sixteen of the 47 mayors in Massachusetts are calling on state legislators to approve the ROE Act abortion expansion bill, including Boston…

Youth Climate Strike Rally Organizers Predict 10,000 in Boston

Organizers of a rally in Boston inviting students to skip school and protest about climate change say they might draw 10,000…

Corrections Officers:  Let Us Carry Concealed on the Outside

Massachusetts corrections officers are asking state legislators to pass a bill that would allow them to carry concealed firearms almost anywhere in…

Ayanna Pressley Won’t Call Donald Trump the President

U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley says she won't refer to Donald Trump as the president of the United States but…

Want To Donate To U.N.? Bill Calls for Climate-Change Option on Massachusetts Tax Returns

Massachusetts tax returns ought to give residents a way to donate money to the United Nations to encourage third-world countries to…

Teen-Agers Getting Pregnant and Sexually Transmitted Diseases? Offer More Contraceptives in School, Lowell Officials Say

School officials want to provide girls at Lowell High School other kinds of contraceptives in addition to the condoms they offer now.…

Boston, Cambridge Surging in Population

The city of Boston's population is now a little shy of 700,000, the highest it has been since 1960,…

Terminally Ill Mother of Four Says Health Insurance Company Told Her She Could End Her Life for $1.20

Editor's Note:  Stephanie Packer, a mother of four in her mid-30s who lives in California, testified Tuesday, June 25,…

Movie Review: ‘Forbidden God’

What would you do if they came for you? It's a question religious people sometimes ask themselves, hoping they'…

Showing Their Colors

Is ROE Act Infanticide? Pointed Exchange During Marathon Hearing on Massachusetts Abortion Bill

Editor's Note:  The following is a transcript of an exchange about whether the proposed ROE Act abortion expansion bill in…

Hearing Scheduled for ROE Act Abortion Bill on Beacon Hill

A Massachusetts legislative committee has scheduled a hearing for the proposed ROE Act abortion expansion bill. The hearing of the Joint Committee…

Paid Family and Medical Leave Not Ready for Prime Time in Massachusetts, Supporters Say

The soon-to-be-implemented paid family and medical leave tax in Massachusetts has so many problems that its supporters are calling…

Tax Millionaires, Make God Optional in Oath, and Vote Soon, Left-Wing Massachusetts Democrats Say

Applying a 4 percent surtax to million-dollar incomes and dropping a required reference to God from the state's oath…

Conversion Therapy Ban Supporters Plan Victory Lap, Since Governor Didn’t Give Them One

Supporters of banning therapeutic techniques designed to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of minors in Massachusetts are planning to hold…