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Want To Donate To U.N.? Bill Calls for Climate-Change Option on Massachusetts Tax Returns

Massachusetts tax returns ought to give residents a way to donate money to the United Nations to encourage third-world countries to fight climate change, environmental activists told state legislators. The measure (Massachusetts Senate Bill 1602 and Massachusetts House Bill 2414) would establish a "Massachusetts Fund for Vulnerable Countries Most

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Teen-Agers Getting Pregnant and Sexually Transmitted Diseases? Offer More Contraceptives in School, Lowell Officials Say

School officials want to provide girls at Lowell High School other kinds of contraceptives in addition to the condoms they offer now. "In this day and age we need to do everything we can to support our students," Lowell School Committee member Connie Martin said during a subcommittee

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Massachusetts, Bring Back Fireworks

If King George III had banned fireworks in America, Thomas Jefferson would have mentioned it in the Declaration of Independence. Instead, our own Massachusetts Legislature banned them, back in 1943.

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Betsy Ross Flag Once Rallied A Nation; It Can Do So Again

Colin Kaepernick hates America. No shock there. It's at the heart of his kneeling during the national anthem back when he played professional football, allegedly to protest allegedly common cases of police officers killing black men they encounter on the job with allegedly no justifiable reason.

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Massachusetts Legislators Eye Creating Commission That Could Ditch State Flag

State legislators on Beacon Hill are considering a measure that would create a commission that would recommend changes to the state flag and state seal, which depict an American Indian and a sword above him. Some Indian groups say the flag and seal are offensive. The state motto is also

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Terminally Ill Mother of Four Says Health Insurance Company Told Her She Could End Her Life for $1.20

Editor's Note: Stephanie Packer, a mother of four in her mid-30s who lives in California, testified Tuesday, June 25, 2019 while sitting in a wheelchair with an oxygen tube in her nostrils before the Massachusetts Legislature's Joint Committee on Public Health about a proposed bill that

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When It Comes to the ROE Act Bill, What Are We Really Talking About?

Alan Guttmacher, strong supporter of the 20th century eugenics movement and onetime president of Planned Parenthood who led the legal battle to legalize abortion, would be impressed with the Roe Act Infanticide bill (Massachusetts House Bill 3320 and Massachusetts Senate Bill 1209). He would be impressed because the Infanticide Bill

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Democratic Pols Seeing Ed Markey Vulnerable From Right and Left

By Matt Murphy STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE This past January, Scott Lang was convinced that he should run for the U.S. Senate and challenge Massachusetts U.S. Senator Edward Markey.