Polyamorous relationships are now eligible for more benefits in the town of Arlington, Massachusetts.
That's because Article 11 passed at Arlington Town Meeting in May, granting additional employee benefits to registered domestic partnerships of town employees. Those benefits include bereavement leave, sick leave, and parental leave, among others. The town also dropped its requirements that members of a domestic partnership live together and share basic living expenses, as well as a requirement that no one in a domestic partnership is married to one another.
A self-described "queer woman" is now the president of the city council of Providence, Rhode Island.
Rachel Miller, who represents Ward 13, which includes Federal Hill, was unanimously elected the council's president on Monday, January 2, 2023, the first day of the new four-year term for all city councilors.
