A hundred-dollar license application fee, a $100 certified safety course, a $100 firearms identification card, fingerprints, background check, approval by local police chief, and a shooting accuracy test if you're a resident of Boston — plus a wait of up to 40 days — and presto!, you may get a license to carry a handgun in Massachusetts.
But what if, like the nonresident student reporter, you aim isn't that great?
Homophobia and partisanship are leading Republican state senators to oppose a nominee for chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, Governor Dannel P. Malloy said.
But Republicans say it's policy driving their opposition to the nomination.
