A Democratic candidate running to represent the 25th Middlesex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives identifies as neither a man nor a woman.
Evan MacKay, a Democrat from Cambridge, uses they/them pronouns and identifies as genderqueer. The candidate is primarying incumbent state representative Marjorie Decker (D-Cambridge).
Governor Maura Healey's administration plans to send some of the families in state-funded emergency shelters on airplanes out of Massachusetts, State House News Service reported Thursday, a day before the first evictions are planned.
"The administration has notified 57 families, who arrived prior to Aug. 1, that they will have to leave by Friday. Some of these families have been 'reticketed,' a term the administration has used to describe paying for plane tickets out of Massachusetts," the wire service reported Thursday, August 8.
