No town or city in Massachusetts has banned tobacco sales. If the zoning change is approved, current sellers of tobacco would be grandfathered, the town manager says.
It took only hours on Sunday after a man opened fire inside a Texas church, killing at least 26, for Massachusetts's two members of the U.S. Senate to take to social media to demand Congress act on gun control.
Yet the remedies offered by U.S. Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren on Twitter soon after Sunday's massacre inside a Baptist church in tiny Sutherland Springs have become less on point as more information has emerged about it.