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The Massachusetts House of Representatives has passed a bill banning so-called "conversion therapy" for children – but only after dropping a provision that would have defined seeking it as child abuse. The measure would make it illegal for licensed mental-health therapists to offer techniques for patients under 18 years
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Banning licensed mental health therapists from trying to change a minor patient's sexual orientation or gender identity violates a new U.S. Supreme Court decision in an unrelated case, opponents of the proposed ban said Wednesday. The Massachusetts House of Representatives is expected to vote on and likely
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Almost three-quarters of the Massachusetts Senate voted conservative less than 10 percent of the time in 2017, forming a "Coalition of the Radical Left," according to the American Conservative Union. The conservative lobbying organization, based in Alexandria, Virginia, rates federal and state lawmakers according to conservative principles on
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Massachusetts can't sustain 29 state college campuses and within the next 10 years will have to reduce the number, the president of the University of Massachusetts said. "Demographically, there's no way that 29 will survive," said Marty Meehan, president of the University of Massachusetts,
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When I graduated with my bachelor's degree in English at the end of the 2011 academic year, I panicked. If you've seen John Mullaney's new Netflix special Kid Gorgeous, you'll know why it wasn't just the springtime sun on my
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There are a handful of television commentators who do more than fill space with what they say. A smaller number still make you sit up and take notice when they speak. And then there was Charles Krauthammer.
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By Michael P. Norton STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Massachusetts lawmakers on Wednesday agreed to historic wage and benefits legislation designed to improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of workers, but the bill's passage was tainted with charges that legislators had backtracked on important worker issues in order
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Former President Bill Clinton shouldn't be welcomed on the campaign trail by Democrats running for office because of the way he treated women when he was in power and his failure to apologize appropriately for it, a prominent Massachusetts Democrat said. U.S. Representative Katherine Clark (D-Melrose), who
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