Outsized ‘boat checks’ from state schools prompt call for probe

Outsized ‘boat checks’ from state schools prompt call for probe

BOSTON – Reports about the soaring compensation costs resulting from perks offered to senior officials in the state university system prompted a call for an investigation from state Sen. Ryan Fattman (R-Webster), who cited a recent news story about a retired Bridgewater State University president's pay.

"I am greatly concerned that lax personnel policies and extravagant benefits for senior officials and administrators needlessly burden both taxpayers and tuition payers," Fattman said in a letter to Sen. Michael J. Barrett (D-Lexington), the chairman of the state Senate Committee on Post Audit and Oversight, requesting an investigation of the matter.

Pro-life leaders say abortionists, not women, should be punished
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Pro-life leaders say abortionists, not women, should be punished

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(CNSNews.com) – Pro-life leaders were vociferous in their rejection of Donald Trump's statement to MSNBC's Chris Matthews that pro-lifers believe women should be punished for having an abortion, pointing out that their longstanding position is that women are also victims of abortionists as well as their unborn babies.

"We know how much women suffer from abortion, and how they are lied to by the abortion industry. Any penalty for illegal abortion should fall on abortion providers, not the women who turn to them in desperation,"said Eric Scheidler, executive director of the Pro-Life Action League.

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