WASHINGTON – Each year, a presidential proclamation declares Jan. 16 a Religious Freedom Day, honoring a Virginia law written by Thomas Jefferson in 1786.
The measure formed the basis for the religious freedom provision in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. To commemorate the 230th anniversary of the "Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom," The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nonprofit law firm, will set up Religious Freedom Restoration Act Central, a website resource to educate researchers, journalists and lawyers on a 1993 federal statute, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Americans celebrated the first Religious Freedom Day that same year.
BOSTON – A piece of Boston's Brutalist-style Government Center will fall under a plan approved Thursday for two towers on the downtown site.
A 480-foot residential building and a 528-foot office tower will replace the Government Center garage, a hulking concrete structure stretching over Congress Street that opened in 1972 and was expanded in 1990. The facility has parking for 2,310 cars.
