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U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Hyde Park) has filed a bill designed to ban public libraries and school libraries from excluding from their collection "books written or illustrated by an individual who is a member of an underrepresented community." "Underrepresented community" includes racial minorities, homosexuals, people
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Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell has signed onto a friend-of-the-court brief urging a federal appeals court to quash a state statute in Arkansas that allows minors to sue doctors for providing gender-transitioning surgery or hormone blockers. Arkansas Senate Bill 199 ("An Act Concerning Medical Malpractice and Gender Transition In
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By Colin A. Young State House News Service
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Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie is not happy that New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu endorsed former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley in the 2024 Republican presidential primary. "I'm disappointed," Christie told Fox News. "I'm not going to be stupid about it. It&
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Provincetown became Massachusetts's seventh municipality to effectively decriminalize psychadelic drugs, including magic mushrooms, this week. The town's board of selectmen voted 3-1-1 to approve a resolution at its meeting Monday, December 11 meeting instructing police officers to de-prioritize cases involving psilocybin. The resolution also calls for
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Supporters of the failed federal Equal Rights Amendment are calling on Congress to remove the deadline it set for the states to approve it. U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Hyde Park) held a press conference with other supporters designed to try to resuscitate the proposed amendment on Wednesday, December 13,
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By Colin A. Young State House News Service
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The two U.S. senators from Massachusetts want to make sure flights have epinephrine auto-injectors, better known as epipens, on board. Elizabeth Warren of Cambridge and Ed Markey of Malden, both Democrats, wrote a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration, along with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York), telling