Beacon Hill has gone gender-neutral and even gender-plural this week in an effort to be more gender-inclusive.
It's not grammatical, but the Massachusetts House of Representatives voted to start calling the chief executive of state government "Their Excellency, the Governor" instead of his traditional title "His Excellency, the Governor" – even though the current occupant, Charlie Baker, is a male. The new title is in the new version of House Rules.
The board of trustees of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts has decided not to accept a class of students for the fall of 2019, on the heels of a recent announcement by school officials that they are looking to merge with another school because of financial problems.
Instead, trustees on Friday, February 1 decided to accept about 60 students who were already admitted through the school's early admission plan last school year but decided to take a gap year between high school and college, according to the Daily Hampshire Gazette.
