Democrat on Charlie Baker:  ‘He Is Really One of Us’

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker is more like a Democrat than the Republican he pretends to be, says Lowell Sun columnist Peter Lucas.

"He is really one of us," an unnamed "top Democrat" told Lucas, according the column in the Lowell Sun.

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Catholic School Students Suing Vermont Claim Religious Discrimination

Bill Gnade

Lawyers representing students from Rice Memorial High School in South Burlington, VT have filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming the state has discriminated against their clients on religious grounds, the Burlington Free Press reports.

Attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom, a litigating advocacy group that has had success in high-profile cases, complain that three high school students attending the parochial high school in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington have been denied access to college-level classes merely because they attend a religion-based school.

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