Massachusetts Adults Don’t Want 16-Year-Olds Voting, Poll Finds

Massachusetts Adults Don’t Want 16-Year-Olds Voting, Poll Finds

About 65 percent of residents in Massachusetts oppose letting 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds vote in federal elections and only 29 percent support it, a newly released poll found.

The vast majority of residents polled said teen-agers at that age aren't mature enough, don't know enough, or don't have enough life experience to vote, according to the Western New England University Polling Institute.

Brown University Is On Occupied Territory and Is Part of the Problem, About-To-Be-Tattooed New Graduate Tells Fellow Graduates
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Brown University Is On Occupied Territory and Is Part of the Problem, About-To-Be-Tattooed New Graduate Tells Fellow Graduates

Matthew McDonald

Brown University's student protesters have done heroic things despite an administration that often isn't on board for constructive change, a graduating senior told a commencement crowd Sunday.

Ruth Scott Miller, of Anchorage, Alaska, who describes herself as part Dena'ina Athabaskan (an Alaska indigenous tribe) and part Ashkenazi Jew, began with a traditional greeting in her tribe's native language, and then quickly offered a version of the land history of Providence, Rhode Island, where the Brown campus is.

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