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When Local Control Isn’t Worth It Anymore

Matthew McDonald

The tiny community of Cary Plantation in Aroostook County in northern Maine held its final town meeting this week before it gives up local government this summer.

In November 2018 the 189-person plantation, a form of local government in Maine, voted 105-4 to give final approval to de-organize, meaning residents will rely on the state and county governments for local services, according to The County, which covers northern Maine.

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Massachusetts GOP Chairman Jim Lyons Calls ROE Act Abortion Bill ‘Infanticide’

Matthew McDonald

The chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party blasted the pro-abortion ROE Act bill as pro-infanticide.

"Under the radical infanticide bill, absolutely nothing would be done to protect or even comfort a baby who survives a late-term abortion," party chairman Jim Lyons said in a written statement Wednesday, March 27. "In addition, the extreme infanticide bill removes all practical limitations on aborting unborn babies. … Let's not go down this extreme and dangerous path. Let's follow a higher road and join together to protect, rather than reject, the least of those among us."

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