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A Massachusetts state legislative committee has voted to recommend a bill that would replace merit-based admissions at public vocational high schools with a blind lottery, supporters of the bill said. The Joint Education on Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature reported the bill out of committee, according to a press release
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The Massachusetts Republican Party wanted the state legislature to call for a special election in the Sixth Plymouth House District, but there won't be one. The state representative seat is vacant. The former occupant, Josh Cutler, a Democrat, was named as an undersecretary in the Massachusetts Executive Office
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Brookline High School has a transgender athlete on its girls' track team, but the athlete did not compete at the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association state championship meet on Thursday for unknown reasons. Senior Chloe Barnes, a male who helped Brookline win an MIAA Division 1 state championship last year
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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has nominated a former longtime romantic partner to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The nominee, Gabrielle Wolohojian, 63, who owned the four-bedroom condominium in Charlestown where she and Healey lived as a same-sex couple for more than a decade, has served on the Massachusetts Appeals Court
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Milton voters have rejected a re-zoning proposal that would have increased density in the town. The vote was 4,346 for Yes to 5,115 for No – or 46 percent to 54 percent. Milton Town Clerk Susan Galvin announced the results on a live YouTube feed at about 10:20
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Some left-wing politicians in Massachusetts are totally in favor of housing illegal immigrants – somewhere else. The latest example: Boston city councilor Julia Mejia, who says she doesn't want more of them in Boston.
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By Alison Kuznitz State House News Service
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The number of pets whose owners gave them up to the Berkshire Humane Society's animal shelter increased 95 percent between 2022 and 2023, largely because of the poor economy, the society's head said. The animal shelter had 1,453 animals in 2023.