February 2018 - NewBostonPost

Date Set For Important “TrooperGate” Hearing

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  BOSTON — A federal judge will rule next month on retired State Police Superintendent Richard D. McKeon’s bid to dismiss the explosive lawsuit filed by one of his former underlings alleging a top-level conspiracy to remove incriminating details from the arrest report of a politically connected Worcester County judge’s daughter. At a scheduling conference......

City Councilor Rejects Board Candidate Because He’s A Man

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A Brockton city councilor voted against a nominee for the city’s Cable Advisory Board because he is a man. Gary Keith, a former member of the city’s planning board and zoning board, was appointed by Mayor Bill Carpenter to the Cable Advisory Board, which required approval by the city council to take effect. Anne Beauregard,......

A Mandate Against Liberty and Conscience — And The Bishops Are On the Wrong Side?

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The Catholic bishops of the United States have spent the better part of the past decade heroically fighting against government mandates that undermine religious freedom and personal conscience. After investing so much effort resisting such mandates, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has found a mandate to support. That mandate forces government workers to......

As Evidence Piles Up Alleging Authorities’ Negligence Dealing With Florida School Shooter, Warren Amps Up Financial Pressure On NRA

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  Despite increasing evidence pointing to multiple public safety failures on the part of the Broward County Sheriff’s office, Democrats, led in part by Massachusetts U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, remain staunchly committed to blaming the National Rifle Association for the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida earlier this month. Warren’s latest move,......

Massachusetts Democrats Rally With Unions As SCOTUS Hears Pivotal Janus Case

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By Katie Lannan BOSTON — Blasting a Supreme Court case challenging union fees as an attack on the right to organize, labor leaders and elected officials on Monday gathered at the Boston Fire Department headquarters to pledge to continue to promote workers’ rights. Janus v. AFSCME “is about those who have wealth and power in......

Harvard Attacks Christian Group for Acting Like Christians

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Freedom House puts out an index rating countries as free or partly free or not free based on whether their citizens have certain rights most Americans consider fundamental. If Freedom House expanded the list to colleges, where would Harvard rank? Surely not “free.” Freedom of association is gone. Harvard College now has a policy in......

‘Bike Life’ Bust On I-93 Unofficially Kicks Off Spring In Boston

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BOSTON — The Massachusetts State Police has released the names of seven adult male riders arrested Saturday evening, including the identity of a Randolph man shot in the leg, who they say tied up traffic by tearing across the city and onto Interstate 93, forming a convoy of unregistered and uninsured ATVs and motor-bikes. The......

The Supreme Court Just Issued Its Decision On Trump’s DACA Appeal

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The U.S. Supreme Court Monday declined to review a lower court ruling requiring the federal government to continue administering the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The decision is a blow to the Trump administration, which hopes to solidify its prerogative to revoke DACA as soon as possible. “It is assumed that the Court......

Beth Lindstrom:  Curling Towards GOP Victory

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Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, Lift up your voice like a trumpet blast …” —  Isaiah 58:1a If voters mean what they say — constantly expressing dissatisfaction with the current hyper-partisan political class and calling for its removal — they could convert hyper-pandemonic emotion into action by dismissing Massachusetts’s Elizabeth Warren in 2018. An able......

Entrepreneur Rick Green Says He’ll Empower Voters The Way He Has His Customers

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Rick Green’s experience as an entrepreneur resonates with his supporters and helps separate him from other candidates in their eyes. Green, 47, co-founder of 1A Auto Parts in Pepperell, is running for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican in the Third District, which includes large portions of the Merrimack Valley along the New......

House Intel Committee Releases Democrats’ Dossier Memo

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  The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released a highly anticipated memo on Saturday that Democrats say provides clarification about the FBI and Justice Department’s application for a spy warrant on President Donald Trump’s former campaign adviser Carter Page. The 10-page document aims to rebut claims made in a memo released Feb. 2 by......