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Massachusetts Gaming Commission Approves Broad Range of Sports For Legal Sports Betting
By Colin Young State House News Service
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Transgender Brookline High Track Runner One of Several Recent Transgender Athletes In Massachusetts
The Brookline High girls' indoor track and field team has a transgender runner. Chloe Barnes, a junior on the team, is a biological male who identifies as a transgender girl, as TB Daily News reported in January and Brookline's student newspaper, The Sag, reported last year.
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Massachusetts Lawmakers Still Pushing Voter-Rejected Physician-Assisted Suicide
Note: If you or someone you know is in a crisis and needs help, call 911 for emergency services or call the 24-hour 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline hotline at 988 to be connected to a trained counselor at a suicide crisis center near you. Additionally, you can also call
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Massachusetts Sports Betting On Track To Start In Two Weeks
By Chris Lisinski State House News Service
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Maura Healey’s Office Approves Arlington’s Polyamorous Relationships Benefits Expansion
Polyamorous relationships are now eligible for more benefits in the town of Arlington, Massachusetts. That's because Article 11 passed at Arlington Town Meeting in May, granting additional employee benefits to registered domestic partnerships of town employees. Those benefits include bereavement leave, sick leave, and parental leave, among others.
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Six Articles NewBostonPost Readers Enjoyed In 2022
Massachusetts had some noteworthy political occurrences in 2022. It elected Maura Healey as its governor. Its voters backed an initiative 52 percent to 48 percent to create a 9 percent state income tax on income exceeding $1 million per year. And liberal Republican state representative Lenny Mirra of Georgetown lost
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Several Massachusetts Schools Offer Nonbinary Gender Option On Student Registration Forms
In Massachusetts, some school districts allow parents to register their children for school as a gender other than male and female. The forms have three options: male, female, and nonbinary. "Nonbinary" is an umbrella term that describes someone who identifies as something other than male or female.
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Five Social Policy Changes Maura Healey’s Administration May Pursue
We know Maura Healey is a liberal, but what will that look like as governor of Massachusetts? We'll find out in the coming years, but given the research that NewBostonPost has done on Healey in recent years, we expect that she will support some changes to current social
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