If enacted, the proposed abortion amendment on the state budget bill would eliminate the current requirement in state law for a 16-year-old or 17-year-old girl seeking an abortion in Massachusetts to get the consent of a parent or a judge. How do Bay Staters feel about that?
A recent Suffolk/Boston Globepoll found that 48.2 percent of Bay Staters support the measure while 40.4 percent oppose. Additionally, 9 percent say they were undecided and 2.4 percent refused to answer the question.
The Lowell Sun recently put out an editorial piece calling for American immigrants to learn English and received sharp backlash online for it — including from members of the mainstream media in Massachusetts.
In the editorial titled "New arrivals, your job is to learn English," the Sun argued that learning English is a key step to reaching financial independence for immigrants in the United States, earning more money, and assimilating into American society
