When it comes to vaccines, Massachusetts saw more kindergartners' families than ever get a religious exemption last year.
During the 2022-2023 school year, 813 of the 66,041 kindergartners in the Bay State had religious exemptions against being vaccinated; the 1.23 percent religious exemption rate was the highest on record dating back to the 1987-1988 school year, according to data from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
A Worcester city councilor who opposes pro-life crisis pregnancy centers chided the city solicitor for using a U.S. Supreme Court decision as an authority without seeking opposing legal opinions.
Thu Nguyen, a councilor-at-large who identifies as non-binary and uses the personal pronouns "they" and "them," is the principal sponsor of two draft ordinances that seek to regulate crisis pregnancy centers.
