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BOSTON — The piston-hot topic of illegal immigration assumed center stage at the Massachusetts State House on Friday, as lawmakers heard an earful of testimony inside a jam-packed committee room about a proposal to enact so-called sanctuary city policies statewide. The proposal, dubbed the Safe Communities Act and introduced by state
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BOSTON — Less than a week ago, a hearing on Beacon Hill regarding a proposal that would effectively enact sanctuary city policies statewide drew overflow crowds. Nearly two years ago, a hearing on a batch of bills that sought to expand in-state tuition privileges at state-run colleges and universities to illegal
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Wednesday morning's attempted massacre at a baseball field in Virginia, in which an apparent Bernie Sanders backer opened fire on several GOP members of Congress and their staff after reportedly inquiring about the group's political affiliation, allegedly inspired another as-of-now-unnamed individual to threaten a female Republican
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By Michael P. Norton STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
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The shooting of a Republican leader in Congress and others by a disturbed left-wing attacker at a baseball practice in northern Virginia early Wednesday morning brings to mind all sorts of problems in America: the viciousness of our politics, the absurdity of our public rhetoric, the prevalence of violence. It&
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A battle over whether students about to join the military can wear insignia on their gowns during graduation at a Connecticut high school next week is raging on social media, but school officials are holding firm. Several students in Ledyard, Connecticut want to wear shoulder cords representing their branch of
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BOSTON — The state's Sierra Club director arguably stole the show during a rally Tuesday at the foot of the Massachusetts State House, which had been organized by a Falmouth lawmaker looking to drum up support for a bill that would enter the state as a non-party stakeholder into
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Mainstream media types and their ilk on Monday grappled with their coverage of the one-year anniversary of an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack in which a lone gunman shot and killed 49 patrons of a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, with outlets like the Washington Post receiving heavy criticism for apparently
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