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Beacon Hill has gone gender-neutral and even gender-plural this week in an effort to be more gender-inclusive. It's not grammatical, but the Massachusetts House of Representatives voted to start calling the chief executive of state government "Their Excellency, the Governor" instead of his traditional title "
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The Massachusetts House of Representatives has decided to start calling the state government's chief executive "Their Excellency, the Governor" in order to be gender-non-specific at all times. Better to be plural and always wrong then go masculine and possibly be wrong on occasion.
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Members of the Falmouth Board of Selectmen concerned about gender-neutrality are thinking about changing the name of the board. A board of "selectmen" has been the chief executive entity in most towns in New England since the 1630s when English Puritans first settled here. It refers to voters
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"'Person,' when referring to the victim of a homicide, means a human being who has been born and is alive." — New York abortion bill signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo, Tuesday, January 22, 2019 "This court has heretofore decided that the status or condition of a
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The mayor of Framingham says she plans to raise the rainbow flag in front of city hall later this year, and she is also asking the city council to fund a director of diversity and inclusion. Mayor Yvonne Spicer used the word "diversity" six times during her first
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The archbishop of New York has no plans to excommunicate New York Governor Andrew Cuomo from the Roman Catholic Church for signing a bill making abortion legal in that state up to the moment of birth, saying he thinks it would backfire. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, one of the prominent leaders
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Medical Examiner: During a legal abortion a doctor would definitely have to empty the skulls to get 'em through the birth canal. Assistant District Attorney: So if we could prove the skulls weren't emptied? Medical Examiner: That would mean they were probably delivered alive. Assistant District Attorney:
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Employees of Apple "should be humiliated and ashamed" because of the iPhone company's "clearly sleazy" decision to minimize its corporate taxes, New York Times columnist David Brooks claims. "The Apple corporation exists because of American institutions," Brooks writes, complaining that "Apple
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