BOSTON – Across the Charles River from the seat of Bay State power sits the city of Cambridge, the intellectual heart of the commonwealth and sometimes known as the Peoples Republic.
So when the Cambridge City Council formally declared Christopher Columbus as a sort of historical persona non grata Monday, it may not have raised many eyebrows.
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City municipal pool that maintains female-only hours so that Hasidic Jewish women can swim with no men present has raised alarms among critics who say the accommodation violates the constitutional separation of church and state as well as laws against discrimination by sex.
But defenders say the women-only swim sessions at the Metropolitan Recreation Center give women whose community separates the sexes a rare chance to exercise.
