August 2016 - NewBostonPost

Healey: Transgender law guidance will be practical, detailed

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When a transgender rights law kicks into effect Oct. 1 businesses should presume people are using the appropriate bathroom, ...

Candidates pledge not to take money from ‘climate-disrupting’ companies

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Less than a month after Gov. Charlie Baker signed significant new clean energy legislation, 29 candidates for state office - including eight Democratic lawmakers - have taken a pledge to reject campaign money from 10 major energy corporations....

Gun group files copycat FOIA request with Mass. AG Healey

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BOSTON — The Gun Owners’ Action League of Massachusetts announced Wednesday morning it has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with Attorney General Maura Healey’s office, requesting documents that may shine a light on the process involved in her recent interpretation of state firearm laws. Healey’s office earlier this month refused to turn over......

UMass-Boston to host ballot question debates

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WBUR and The Boston Globe are teaming up with UMass-Boston to host a series of live debates starting in September to explore the four ballot questions that voters will be asked to decide in November relating to charter schools, legal marijuana, slot gambling and the treatment of farm animals....

Pro-charter school campaign launches new TV ad

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The campaign supporting a ballot question to allow additional charter schools in Massachusetts on Tuesday launched a new television ad aimed at highlighting the successes of charter schools and the options they provide parents....

Clinton to stress American exceptionalism in Ohio

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Hillary Clinton plans to stress her support for American exceptionalism during a speech in the battleground state of Ohio, while arguing that Donald Trump has rejected the concept....

Trump has surprise Mexico visit ahead of immigration speech

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Donald Trump will be taking his first foreign trip as the Republican presidential nominee on Wednesday, making a quick and unexpected visit to Mexico, a nation he derided as the home of rapists and criminals as he launched his campaign....

Why London won’t lose its crown as Europe’s financial capital

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Following the Brexit vote, the race to succeed London as Europe’s financial capital is on....

Progressives put the Star Spangled Banner on their chopping block

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Capitalizing on the opportunity afforded by Colin Kaepernick’s high-profile protest of the song Friday, progressives are decrying the beloved song as racist and calling for its removal as the national anthem because of a line in the lesser known third verse (which isn’t officially included in the national anthem)....

Andrew Bacevich: ‘Christian realism’ for foreign affairs

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Andrew Bacevich, a retired historian and foreign policy scholar at the Pardee School of International Relations at Boston University, is one of the leading advocates of a non-interventionist approach to U.S. foreign policy....

Lawsuit filed to determine what administration is doing about ISIS Christian genocide

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Seeking to establish what the Obama administration is doing in response to the genocide being waged by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) against Christians...