BOSTON – As hundreds of immigrants and supporters gathered to lobby for legislation to benefit their communities, state Attorney General Maura Healey, a Democrat, took the opportunity to brand Republican Donald Trump as an unAmerican "extremist" who threatens them and their families.
"When people like Donald Trump and other extremists – yes, extremists – want to close off America to immigrants and refugees, what does that say?" Healey told the crowd at the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition rally. "When they threaten to deport people, to build walls, to stop travel, to literally break up and break apart families, what does that say?"
BOSTON – Gov. Charlie Baker is "toying" with the idea of turning to the state's all-Democrat congressional delegation for help impressing upon the Obama administration the need to speed up the Food and Drug Administration's generic drug approval process to help drive down costs, he said Monday.
Baker met with the Democratic legislative leaders as a hearing was under way on a proposal from Sen. Mark Montigny (D-New Bedford) to develop a list of "critical" prescription drugs and require their manufacturers to report production, research and development, marketing and advertising costs, as well as various prices charged.
