BOSTON — Residents across the commonwealth may soon face what shoppers in 20 Bay State municipalities already experience every time they go to the store — a ban on disposable plastic shopping bags.
The latest shot fired in the war on plastic takes the form of proposed legislation, the Plastic Bag Reduction Act, filed by state Rep. Lori Ehrlich, a Marblehead Democrat. Ehrlich's bill seeks not only to reduce but to eliminate the use of thin-film bags by the summer of 2018.
BOSTON – Attorney General Maura Healey on Thursday announced the indictments of five people in connection with three separate human trafficking schemes in Massachusetts, bringing the number of people charged under the 2011 human trafficking law to 25.
"There's a commonly-held misperception out there that women willfully chose to engage in what is sometimes called the world's oldest profession, but that's simply not true," Healey said. "Little girls grow up wanting to be many things, they don't dream about careers locked up in hotel rooms and motel rooms selling their bodies as commodities, forced to endure the gravest indignities."
