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Left-wingers demanding extreme positions and ostracizing those who don't agree are driving ordinary people to align with social conservatives, a liberal columnist for The Boston Globe says. Kat Rosenfield, a novelist, uses a conflict over including the book Gender Queer in school libraries as an example.
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By Chris Lisinski State House News Service
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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey is traveling to Ireland next week. Healey will meet with the taoiseach (or prime minister), Leo Varadkar; foreign affairs minister Tánaiste Micheál Martin, Senate chairman Cathaoirleach Jerry Buttimer, and the Irish parliament's LGBTQI+ caucus.
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Juneteenth will be a state holiday in Rhode Island next year. Governor Dan McKee, a Democrat, signed a bill (S.444) into law on Monday making Juneteenth a state holiday beginning next year.
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Should young Americans go to college? Two former professors addressed the topic in Don't Go to College: A Case for Revolution, released in August last year.
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State officials in Connecticut are using speed cameras on four highways in the state to identify vehicles going more than 15 miles per hour faster than the speed limit – including 60 miles per hour in a 45-miles-per-hour zone. State officials are calling it a "test run" for speed
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By Casey Harper The Center Square
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has the backing of at least two people with roles in the Massachusetts Republican Party. MassGOP vice chairman Jay Fleitman and state committeewoman Mary Lou Stuart of Northampton will be working on his behalf in the Bay State, according to Politico.