STATE HOUSE — Donna Colorio is anxious and exhausted, but happy.
The former Worcester School Committee member has been leading a volunteer effort to gather the 64,750 certified voter signatures needed to place a proposed repeal of Common Core education standards on the 2016 statewide ballot.
Like millions of other Americans, I watched in horror on Friday as the news unfolded of the terrorist attacks in Paris, which left at least 132 innocent civilians dead and countless others wounded.
I watched as cable news anchors wondered aloud how a free society can protect itself from the threat of terrorism without sacrificing the very liberties that make us the target of radical rage.
