Posts Tagged ‘Massachusetts’

Massachusetts Veteran Found Dead in VA Staircase After Month-Long Search

The decayed body of a veteran was located just 60 feet from his bedroom in an emergency stairwell of a Massachusetts VA after he had been missing for a month. Veteran Timothy White, 62, entered the Bedford Veterans Quarters in Bedford, Massachusetts, in January of 2020 after being homeless. On May 13 of 2020, White went […]

The Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity stands with Palestine: A call to action

Editor’s Note: Last month The Scientific American removed an op-ed calling for solidarity with Palestinians from its website after the magazine was targeted by pro-Israel groups. The Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity have released a public statement on behalf of 400 medical, public health, and community leaders to Scientific American, in solidarity with the authors […]

Heavily Armed “Rise Of The Moors” Members In Standoff With Massachusetts Police On I-95

The standoff began around 0200 ET when police pulled over two cars on I-95 between Lynnfield and Stoneham. About eight to 10 men were dressed in combat gear armed to the teeth with long guns and pistols, Massachusetts State Police Col. Christopher Mason said. Mason said when the men refused to put their weapons down […]

Nearly 4,000 Fully Vaccinated People in Massachusetts Test Positive for COVID-19

Nearly 4,000 people in Massachusetts who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 have tested positive for the disease, adding to the growing number of breakthrough cases nationwide. According to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, as of June 12, there were 3,791 infections among the 3.7 million fully vaccinated people in the state, or about one out […]

Sanctuary State Massachusetts: Illegal Alien Charged with Raping Teen on Martha’s Vineyard Ferry

An illegal alien has been charged with raping a teenage girl on a Martha’s Vineyard ferry in the sanctuary state of Massachusetts. Bruno Sanches De Jesus, a 20-year-old illegal alien, was arrested and charged with two counts of rape this week after allegedly raping an 18-year-old girl on the Steamship Authority ferry that runs from Martha’s […]

Massachusetts School Committee Allows Real-Time Crime Center To Monitor Students Live

How does a school committee respond to a year of remote student learning? How will the Springfield, MA School Committee respond to post-COVID schooling? Now that public schools are reopening (just in time for summer vacation) what are officials worried about? Is it face-to-face learning? Is it in-person interactions with students? Nope, it is mass […]

End To ICE Contracts In Bristol County, Massachusetts

By FANG Collective and Steve Ahlquist, UpriseRI. May 20, 2021 The FANG Collective is happy to announce that ICE will be cancelling all contracts with Bristol County, Massachusetts. This includes their 287(g) contract which trains deputies to collaborate with ICE and perform immigration agent duties, and their IGSA contract which turned the Bristol County House of Correction into an ICE detention center. See: Biden administration […]

Nurses In Massachusetts Are Waging The Longest Current Strike In The US

Above photo: Nurses on the picket line during a strike outside of Saint Vincent Hospital on March 8, 2021, in Worcester, Massachusetts. Jessica Rinaldi / The Boston Globe via Getty Images. The longest active picket line in the US is in Worcester, Massachusetts, where over 700 union nurses are entering their third month on strike. […]

Massachusetts House rejects distorted IHRA definition of antisemitism

The Massachusetts House of Representatives on Wednesday rejected an amendment to the state budget which would have Massachusetts adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism, a definition that equates criticism of Israel with antisemitism, within its law on religious discrimination. The problem amendment, called “Condemnation of Antisemitism and Adoption of IHRA Definition”, was submitted by Rep. […]

Lowell, Massachusetts Will be First US City to Honor Greek Bicentennial

City Hall in Lowell, Massachusetts. Visible in the foreground is a raised island containing monuments to the city’s early Greek immigrants, Cardinal O’Connell, and the city’s Irish-American Community. Credit: Emw /Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 3.0 The venerable New England city of Lowell, Massachusetts, once home to so many Greek immigrants that it was dubbed “America’s Acropolis,” […]

Massachusetts school board member resigns after using antisemitic slur

The local school official in Massachusetts who  made an antisemitic slur on TV announced his resignation via Facebook Live video on Friday morning. Bob Hoey, a member of the Lowell School Committee, was on a local talk show Wednesday morning when he referred to a Jewish former official as a “kike.” The slur came amid […]

Jews Worldwide On High Alert As Massachusetts School Board Member Refers To Jewish Colleague As A ‘Kike’

Jewish advocacy groups worldwide are collectively clutching their pearls after a school board member in Lowell, Massachusetts, referred to a former school district leader as a “kike” on live television — and are predictably calling for his resignation: Bob Hoey should step down from the Lowell School Committee, the mayor of the Boston suburb said. […]

School board member in Massachusetts called someone a ‘kike’ on live TV

A school board member in Lowell, Massachusetts, called a former school district leader a “kike” on live television, spurring calls for his resignation. Bob Hoey should step down from the Lowell School Committee, the mayor of the Boston suburb said. “We lost the kike, oh, I mean, the Jewish guy,” Hoey said Wednesday morning on […]

New Massachusetts Law Paves Way For Police-Free Schools

Above photo: Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images. Massachusetts ended a mandate requiring cops in schools. Now advocates want Maryland and Florida, the remaining states with such laws, to follow suit and break the school-to-prison pipeline. In Massachusetts, those who want police out of public schools are one step closer to making […]

Democrat-Controlled Massachusetts to Count Dead People’s Votes In November Under ‘Temporary’ Law

Massachusetts has introduced new election rules that will allow dead people’s votes to be counted in the upcoming November election, state officials have announced. The state legislature passed the new laws this year as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin announced the move to count dead people’s votes on […]

Jewish former Marine Jake Auchincloss wins Massachusetts Democratic congressional primary

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***Live Updates*** Massachusetts Primary Results

Massachusetts holds its primary elections on Tuesday. Incumbent progressive Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), whom Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) backed early, faces a challenge from Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-MA), whom House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) recently endorsed. In the House, incumbent Richard Neal (D-MA) faces a challenge from Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse. Stay tuned to Breitbart […]

3 House races, 6 Jewish candidates: What we’re watching in the Massachusetts primaries today

(JTA) — Primary day is here for Massachusetts, and most eyes have been focused on the race for a Democratic nod between the longtime progressive Sen. Ed Markey and the younger, more moderate Joe Kennedy III. But there are multiple consequential clashes with Jewish significance going on Tuesday as well — including in the race […]

Koch academic influence returns to Massachusetts with new Tufts University think tank

When a new Massachusetts think tank housed at Tufts University launched earlier this year, Boston-based media described it as a “CBO-like center” (referring to the Congressional Budget Office) that would offer an “independent analysis” of proposed state policy and legislation. But one of the main funders of this think tank, called the Center for State Policy Analysis, is a program tied financially […]

Flu Vaccine Required for All Students of Massachusetts Schools, Some Exemptions Allowed

<span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> BOSTON (WCVB-TV) — Flu shots will now be required for all students in Massachusetts schools, from child care through colleges, the Department of Public Health announced Wednesday. Students older than six months will have to be vaccinated by Dec. 31, unless either a medical […]

Jacobson v. Massachusetts: Why It Should Be Scuttled — The SCOTUS 1905 Decision Is Obsolete And Needs A Certiorari Brief Filed (Part 3 of 3)

A Monograph Edited by Catherine J Frompovich & Laraine Abbey-Katzev, RN emeritus, MS, CNS “The law is like apparel, which alters with the time.” John Dodderidge Quotes LIES, SCIENTIFIC DOUBLE STANDARD WITH NO RETRACTIONS OF CDC’s FRAUDULENT VACCINE STUDIES AND INFORMATION “An autism study that was slammed by experts and retracted this week […]

Jacobson v. Massachusetts: Why It Should Be Scuttled — The SCOTUS 1905 Decision Is Obsolete And Needs A Certiorari Brief Filed (Part 1 of 3)

A Monograph Edited by Catherine J Frompovich & Laraine Abbey-Katzev, RN emeritus, MS, CNS “The function of the law is not to provide justice or preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.” Gerry Spence Quotations The Issue In the year 1905, the U.S. Supreme […]

Radio giant iHeartMedia poised to file for bankruptcy; owns 18 Massachusetts stations

Radio giant iHeartMedia Inc. is circulating documents for a bankruptcy filing that could come as soon as this weekend. Despite a year of negotiations on a restructuring plan, a formal support agreement still isn’t in place with the most-senior lenders, making a bankruptcy filing all but certain, Bloomberg Newsreported on Thursday. With 855 stations, […]

Massachusetts considers legalizing assisted death, so the same doctors who now kill you accidentally can start killing you on purpose

(Natural News) Should a doctor be allowed to give an adult who is terminally ill and has fewer than six months to live a medication that will allow them to die peacefully in their sleep if they request it? After opposing assisted death officially since 1996, the Massachusetts Medical Society has now […]

Message from Massachusetts: When we fight we win!

The First Amendment and organizers of a year-long campaign to uphold the right to boycott won an important victory in Massachusetts when, on February 7, the legislative committee considering an “anti-BDS” bill refused to advance it to the floor, ending its chances of being passed this session. The deceptively named “Act Prohibiting Discrimination in State […]

Massachusetts activists defeat "deceptive" anti-BDS measure

Nora Barrows-Friedman Activism and BDS Beat 13 February 2018 Graffiti on the Israeli-built separation wall dividing the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem promotes the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights, June 2014. Ryan Rodrick Beiler ActiveStills Activists in Massachusetts successfully pressured state lawmakers to stop a bill on 8 February that […]

Massachusetts lawmakers to vote on anti-BDS bill after going on free trip to Israel and West Bank settlements

On December 7, a day after President Trump announced that the U.S. was recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, 13 Massachusetts legislators made their way to Israel as fully-subsidized guests of a lobby group, the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Greater Boston.  They were due back on December 17. They were accompanied by JCRC head […]

Massachusetts, Protesters Balk At Pipeline Company’s Payments To Police

Colon-Aponte, 22, is Taina, the indigenous people of Puerto Rico, and is part of a group known as the “water protectors,” who have traveled the country protesting energy infrastructure projects, using nonviolent resistance tactics to stop projects that they see as endangering water resources. Source Article from https://popularresistance.org/in-massachusetts-protesters-balk-at-pipeline-companys-payments-to-police/

A Massachusetts State Trooper Says Higher-Ups Doctored Arrest Report on Judge’s Daughter

Ryan Sceviour, a Massachusetts State Police trooper, was halfway through an evening shift on Oct. 16 when a seemingly routine call came in about a car crash. On a highway in Worcester, Mass., Alli Bibaud had slammed her Toyota Corolla into the guardrail. She and her passenger had survived, but Sceviour said the 30-year-old woman […]

Despite angry protest, Massachusetts screening of anti-occupation doc gets positive response

Marblehead, Massachusetts is the kind of small town where a community online board of events includes posts about a missing cat and calls for recommendations on who can clear a gutter—that is until a notice of a film about how Israel is covered in American media was published. Allegations of anti-Israel propaganda were lobbed, not […]

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