Category: Massachusetts

Children’s Behavior at Home Worsened During Remote Learning: Research

Parents believe that their children are exhibiting worse behavior during remote learning at home than when they attend school in person, a new study has revealed. Researchers from Harvard University led the study, which involved four online surveys among 405 parents of children in Massachusetts from Jan. 4 to May 23, 2021—a period marked by…


Massachusetts Hospitals to Report Whether Admissions Are Primarily Because of COVID-19

Massachusetts will soon differentiate in the state’s COVID-19 hospitalization data whether the patients were admitted to the hospital because of COVID-19 or they just happened to have the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus that causes it. Public health officials of Massachusetts said that starting from Jan. 10, hospitals in Massachusetts will be reporting whether admissions…


Massachusetts Teacher Fired for Anti-CRT Posts Running for State Senate

A Massachusetts school teacher fired for her social media posts about critical race theory (CRT), transgenderism, and gender identity and later targeted with a recall petition is now running for a seat in the state Senate. Two weeks ago, Bourne resident Kari MacRae, filed a civil rights lawsuit against the town of Hanover for firing…


Supreme Court Rejects Massachusetts Hospital Workers’ Vaccine Mandate Lawsuit

The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a group of workers who sought exemptions from their Massachusetts-based hospital’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Their request was denied by Justice Stephen Breyer, the justice assigned to handle emergency matters from Massachusetts, who offered no comment. The legal challenge was filed by eight employees of Mass General Brigham Inc., who…


Supreme Court Won’t Accept Project Veritas Challenge to Massachusetts Law Banning Secret Recordings

The Supreme Court refused this morning to accept an appeal from Project Veritas, the undercover investigative journalism organization founded by James O’Keefe, after an appeals court rejected the group’s First Amendment-based challenge to a Massachusetts law forbidding secret recordings. The case, Project Veritas Action Fund v. Rollins, court file 20-1598, comes from the U.S. Court…


5 Lawmakers Banned from Massachusetts State House Over Vaccine Mandate

Five Massachusetts state lawmakers are banned from working inside the State House because they haven’t provided proof of having received the COVID-19 vaccine. The state representatives have not applied for any exemptions, the deadline for which was Nov. 1. State Speaker of the House Ronald Mariano, a Democrat, told The Boston Herald on Nov. 8 that…


Gunmaker Smith & Wesson Breaks Ground on Tennessee Home After Relocating Over Firearm Manufacturing Legislation

Gunmaker Smith & Wesson broke ground on their new home in East Tennessee last week alongside several state and local leaders, just weeks after announcing the decision to move. The American manufacturer of firearms, ammunition, and restraints, which was founded in 1852, currently has corporate headquarters in Springfield, Massachusetts. The company is investing more than $125 million to relocate its headquarters…


Massachusetts Governor Suspends a ‘Few Hundred’ State Employees Over COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican, said Monday that a “few hundred” state workers face suspension over not complying with the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Baker issued an executive order on Aug. 19 requiring all Executive Department employees to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination on or before Oct. 17, 2021. The order noted that Executive Department…


Publicis Loses Bid to Escape Massachusetts Opioid Marketing Lawsuit

BOSTON—A unit of French advertising company Publicis Groupe SA on Friday lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit by Massachusetts’ attorney general claiming it helped OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP fuel the U.S. opioid epidemic. Publicis Health had called Attorney General Maura Healey’s lawsuit an unprecedented attempt to sue an advertising agency over a manufacturer’s…


Parents Sue Massachusetts School District For Allegedly Excluding White Students From Events

A Massachusetts school district allegedly held racially segregated events that specifically excluded white students, according to a federal lawsuit filed by a non-profit group representing three families. Non-profit group Parents Defending Education filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday afternoon, arguing that Wellesley Public Schools violated the constitutional rights of their students, and also…