The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts is calling for an investigation of Boston Mayor Marty Walsh for what it describes as bullying tactics several years ago to get the organizers of the St. Patrick's Day Parade in South Boston to allow organizations that openly identify as homosexual to march.
C.J. Doyle, executive director of the Catholic Action League, said Walsh's behavior then is largely similar to the behavior of two of his aides who were convicted Wednesday in federal court in Boston on extortion charges for pressuring an entertainment company putting together a festival to use union workers.
A recreational marijuana store is scheduled to open on Nantucket on Thursday, August 8, now that the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission has given approval.
The Green Lady Dispensary – a play on the island's nickname "Grey Lady" – needed special regulations because there is no testing laboratory on the island, which is 28 miles south of Cape Cod and can only be reached by sea or by air. The ocean and airways are under the jurisdiction of federal law, which prohibits marijuana.
