A state commission has started a task force "to develop detailed recommendations and potential interventions" to try to get parents in Massachusetts to accept homosexuality and transgenderism.
"But because we may never live in a society in which all families are accepting, it is even more critical that our governmental institutions – be they schools, executive agencies, law enforcement, or anything else – be LGBTQ-competent and bias-free," states a report by the Massachusetts Commission on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning Youth released last week.
Boston city councilors want school police officers in the city to be able to maximize their pensions at age 60 instead of 65.
All 13 city councilors this week supported the change, which city officials said would increase the city's budget in fiscal year 2021 by $375,000 and the actuarial accrued liability to $1,272,000. But they described those figures as tiny compared to the city's overall pension expenditures.
