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A bill that would create a "Gender X" option for driver's licenses and birth certificates in Massachusetts is scheduled to get a hearing before a legislative committee on Beacon Hill on Thursday. Parents would get to choose "X" for sex rather than male or
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U.S. Senator Ed Markey followed through on his decision not to vote for his own Green New Deal resolution on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday, voting "present" instead. A procedural vote to take up the resolution failed 0-57, with 43 senators voting present. All 53
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By Katie Lannan STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Requiring all private firearm sales in Massachusetts to take place in a federally licensed gun store — and be run through the shop's background check system — would close a "dangerous loophole" in current laws, a Natick lawmaker said Tuesday.
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The U.S. stock market is a decade into a rally that has seen broad indexes triple in value and generate $30 trillion in wealth. The unemployment rate is 3.8% nationally, and the early caucus and primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire are tied with even lower seasonally
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The three political leaders of Massachusetts state government say they plan to make sure abortion clinics that also provide contraception to poor people continue to get public funds even if the federal government cuts them off. "It's something we are all very concerned about. We want to
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Hey Massachusetts legislators, let's make a deal: If your son starts questioning whether he's really a boy, or your daughter starts questioning whether she's really a girl, you take your child to a "gender-affirming" therapist who begins "transitioning" techniques leading
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U.S. Senator Ed Markey says he won't vote for the Green New Deal resolution that he's sponsoring when it comes up for a vote on the Senate floor Tuesday. Instead, he and other Democrats plan to vote "present," as a protest against Republicans
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Governor Charlie Baker continues to oppose so-called safe injection sites for drug addicts because they're illegal under federal law and he sees no hard evidence that that they work. The governor is in a decided minority of state officials in Massachusetts who have commented on the issue, bucking
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