A new political ad featuring Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Shannon Liss-Riordan highlights her work as a labor lawyer, including advocating for strippers classified as independent contractors by the clubs they work at.
Liss-Riordan has argued in court that strippers ought to be classified as employees and therefore should not have to pay shift fees or turn over a portion of their tips to management.
The Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance is calling on Governor Charlie Baker to get approval from the state Legislature before implementing a climate-change program that could lead to higher gasoline prices.
Baker administration officials say the Transportation and Climate Initiative program isn't a gas tax but rather a "cap-and-invest" program, meaning that the state would cap allowable emissions and use the money garnered from fuel providers to invest in transportation approaches designed to reduce pollution that state officials say is leading to global warming.
