Massachusetts Anti-Abortion-Funding Drive Falls Short Again

Massachusetts Anti-Abortion-Funding Drive Falls Short Again

A petition drive seeking to make it possible to stop public funding of abortion in Massachusetts has come up short on signatures, meaning voters won't see a referendum on it in 2022.

Thomas Harvey, chairman of the Massachusetts Alliance to Stop Taxpayer Funded Abortion, announced Tuesday that petition supporters "have fallen well short of the number needed."

Did A High School Principal Try To Deep-Six Pro-America Day Because Some Kids Support Trump?
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Did A High School Principal Try To Deep-Six Pro-America Day Because Some Kids Support Trump?

Matthew McDonald

An anti-Trump high school principal in Abington, Massachusetts tried to cancel the school's annual U.S.A. Day earlier this week but backed down after a member of the town's board of health called her out on it, the board of health member said.

The principal has a different story, telling the Brockton Enterprise she has no problem with students wearing Make America Great Again hats to school and that administrators mistakenly thought the student council had voted to replace U.S.A. Day with something called "character day."

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