For Subscribers
Shiva Ayyadurai Banned From Twitter
Shiva Ayyadurai ran for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts twice and may run again. However, he won't have a campaign…
social issues
For Subscribers
LGBTQ Youths and Young Adults Qualify for Special Coronavirus-Related State Grants in Massachusetts
A state agency is offering grants totaling at least $10,000 for homosexual, bisexual, and transgender people 25 and younger affected by…
For Subscribers
Rainbow Flag Should Fly From Every Senior Center in Massachusetts, Town Official Says
Contractors working for the Massachusetts Department of Elder Affairs will have to take a one-hour "cultural competence" training session…
For Subscribers
Quincy Creates First-Ever LGBTQ Commission, Though Mayor Doesn’t See Point
Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch refused to sign a bill the city council passed creating a commission designed to serve the interests of…
For Subscribers
Rape Victim Chooses Life for Her Son, Forgiveness for Her Rapist
The author says it shouldn't seem surprising that she loves her son, even considering the horrible way he was conceived.…
For Subscribers
Parent shaming: The new social media trend
They name call. They bash. They judge. Many times, they don't know the person, the situation, or all of the…
For Subscribers
The Dirty Little Secret Behind Divorce
Divorce. It should be a four-letter word. Don't you think? When you meet someone and they say they are…
For Subscribers
Is Sexually Assaulting a 6-Year-Old Really That Bad?
A New Hampshire judge sentenced a sex offender to a long term in jail, but then had a change of heart and…
For Subscribers
What Americans Think About Open Marriages
Should marriages be monogamous? Americans' answers may surprise you…
For Subscribers
Have Facebook groups become small-town politics gone wild?
Chances are, you've either heard of or joined a Facebook group over the years. It's a great way…
For Subscribers
Pew: Majority of Americans think too many people are ‘easily offended’
(CNSNews.com) – The Pew Research Center released a survey on Wednesday showing that a majority of Americans, 59 percent, agree that "…
For Subscribers
Marketing medical marijuana got me banned on Facebook
Marijuana. It's a hot topic when it comes to states across the country. Many states now allow for a medical…
For Subscribers
Millennials killed the suit, but created a culture
Millennials are eroding the culture of "corporate America." They are laughing at the word "slacks" and rolling their…
For Subscribers
‘Bathroom bill’ passes Massachusetts House as foes fail
BOSTON — After a virtual marathon of proposed amendments, moral platitudes and the occasional outburst from the gallery by supporters and opponents alike,…
For Subscribers
Why are fewer people getting married?
June kicks off the U.S. wedding season. Whether you love nuptials or hate them, an astounding trend is occuring: fewer couples…
For Subscribers
Baker scrambles political calculus on House ‘bathroom bill’
BOSTON – Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said Tuesday that he would sign the version of the so-called bathroom bill pending in the…
For Subscribers
Baker relents, says he’d sign the House bathroom bill
BOSTON – On the eve of a debate in the state House of Representatives on access to public facilities for transgender people, Massachusetts…
For Subscribers
Transgender directive prompts a dozen states to sue
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas is leading a dozen states, including Maine, in suing the Obama administration over its directive to U.S.…
For Subscribers
Dartmouth students demand end to coddling, focus on learning
HANOVER, N.H. – Alleging that Dartmouth College administrators have increasingly "assumed the role of paternalistic babysitters," students at the Ivy…
For Subscribers
Kennedy bill would bar religious exemption claims
WASHINGTON – Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III on Wednesday proposed "clarifying" the Religious Freedom Act in a way…
For Subscribers
US threatens school aid in transgender dictate; foes stand firm
WASHINGTON – White House spokesman Josh Earnest on Friday insisted that the Department of Education's message to schools on transgender access…
For Subscribers
Senate passes ‘bathroom bill’ that foes say tramples privacy
BOSTON – The Massachusetts Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a bill to guarantee access to public facilities, including sex-segregated bathrooms and locker…
For Subscribers
Harvard women protest ‘blacklist’ targeting single-sex clubs
CAMBRIDGE – Women in Harvard College sororities and other gender-exclusive organizations are fighting back after administrators at the Ivy League school announced…
For Subscribers
Schilling fired by ESPN over post about ‘bathroom bills’
BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — ESPN fired Curt Schilling, a baseball analyst and former Boston Red Sox star pitcher, following his comments on Facebook…
For Subscribers
Dartmouth sorority buckles to protests, cans Derby party
HANOVER, N.H. – A Dartmouth College sorority, hit by protests that a May 2015 Kentucky Derby party was racist and a symbol…
For Subscribers
Transgender bathroom-access debate heats up in NC
BOSTON – While Beacon Hill lawmakers have kept back a proposed law that would ensure access for transgender people to public accommodations based…
For Subscribers
‘Bathroom Bill,’ charter schools measure given more time
BOSTON – The so-called Bathroom Bill, a controversial measure to ensure public facilities access to transgender people, and a charter schools measure…
For Subscribers
‘Bathroom Bill’ gets a House extension amid uncertainty
BOSTON – While Speaker Robert DeLeo said Monday he hoped to pass transgender anti-discrimination legislation this session, the House of Representatives voted…
For Subscribers
Dress codes and female dignity
How many among us recognize the name of Yolande Betbeze Fox, the Alabama beauty who died recently at the age of 87?…
For Subscribers
Bay State tops NE in creating family-friendly conditions
Massachusetts tops New England in terms of social and economic policies that improve family well-being and prosperity, as well as that…
For Subscribers
Why natural marriage? You know: For kids
The Respectful Conversations project is an effort to bring together those who disagree about the most controversial issues, to state disagreements civilly…
For Subscribers
Polygamy: New life for a dead relic of barbarism?
Cultural markers pointing to plural marriage, from Sister Wives to the throuple, have sprung up among us over the last few years,…
For Subscribers
Boston activists push for new equal pay law
BOSTON – More than 70 years after Massachusetts made it illegal to pay men and women different rates for the same job, a…
For Subscribers
Bathroom bill vetoed by SD governor, citing local control
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota's governor vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have made the state the first in…
For Subscribers
‘Bathroom bill’ in SD under fire from transgender teen
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — When Thomas Lewis told his South Dakota high school last year that he is transgender, teachers called him…
For Subscribers
Harvard’s frenetic pace leads students to hook up, not date
BOSTON – The "hookup culture" of casual intimacy on college campuses has been written about ad nauseam – is it good? Bad?…
