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Oregon to cover health-related climate expenses

Oregon is set to become the first state in the nation to cover certain climate change expenses under its Medicaid program

The Independent UK

Losing a home for unpaid taxes often means losing your equity, too

Last year, Massachusetts Democratic state Reps. Tommy Vitolo and Jeff Roy saw a newspaper story about two brothers in their state who had almost lost their home due to unpaid property taxes. That was followed by another article this year featuring a New Bedford woman, recovering from COVID-19, who slept…

Tribune News Service

Credibility At Stake? Cannabis Control Chair Has Interest In Two Marijuana Projects Before Her Board

Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission tapped former state treasurer Shannon O'Brien earlier this month to serve as its new chairperson, replacing interim chair Sarah Kim

Benzinga

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Brickbat: Conduct Unbecoming

Stoughton, Massachusetts, Police Chief Donna McNamarra said she will ask the Peace Officers Standards and Training Council to decertify three former officers after an investigation found they had inappropriate relationships with a teenage girl who was a member of the department's Explorers program. Matthew Farwell, his twin brother William Farwell,…

Reason

‘They were preyed upon’: immigration lawyers denounce transport of migrants

Florida governor Ron DeSantis transported asylum seekers from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in ‘appalling’ political stunt

The Guardian - US

Editorial: The best path to justice in DeSantis’ migrant-flight scandal

It’s becoming increasingly clear that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will have to answer for the dubious legality of his cruel stunt that dropped two state-funded planeloads of migrants on the Massachusetts resort community of Martha’s Vineyard. At the very least, he appears to have violated the boundaries of the state…

Orlando Sentinel

Soldier who went missing during Korean War accounted for

A soldier from Massachusetts who went missing during the Korean war and was later reported to have died in a prisoner of war camp has been accounted for

The Independent UK

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Editorial: Shipping of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard shows the rot of our immigration debate

A 27-year-old migrant named Pablo unwittingly shipped to Martha’s Vineyard last week marveled at the speed with which Massachusetts authorities helped him and others who arrived unexpectedly.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: The best path to justice in DeSantis’ migrant-flight scandal

Orlando Sentinel

Former NFL Star Antonio Brown to Perform Rap Show at Nightclub

The former wide receiver is slated to rap at a venue in Massachusetts.

Sports Illustrated

Feds drop case against judge charged in immigrant's escape

Federal prosecutors have agreed to dismiss charges against a Massachusetts judge accused of helping a man who was living in the U.S. illegally evade an immigration enforcement agent

The Independent UK

U.S. drops charges against Massachusetts judge in immigration arrest case

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday said they reached an agreement to drop criminal charges filed during the Trump administration against a Massachusetts judge accused of impeding a federal immigration arrest of a defendant in her courtroom.

Reuters

Michael Hiltzik: The saga of DeSantis' migrant flights gets uglier

Earlier this week, we speculated that the saga of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's migrant flights was bound to look uglier with time.

Los Angeles Times

End of Liverpool and Celtic deals help slash losses at New Balance

The company's US parent is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and can trace its roots back to 1906

Birmingham Post

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Are Ron DeSantis' Migrant Flights Legal?

Critics of the Martha’s Vineyard flights are raising a bevy of questions about the finances and alleged deception behind the scheme.

Salon

Expert: DeSantis stunt may be illegal

Is it legal to move migrants potentially against their will? An immigration lawyer weighs in

The Independent UK

Man pleads guilty to dousing 'Bewitched' statue in red paint

A man has pleaded guilty to vandalizing the tourist favorite “Bewitched” statue in Salem, Massachusetts

The Conversation

The Republican party's cruel migrant stunts have very deep roots

The Republican governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, is facing a criminal investigation for sending two planes full of Latin American asylum-seekers to Martha’s Vineyard, a wealthy Massachusetts island where former president Barack Obama owns a home.

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Liverpool Echo

How the loss of Liverpool FC shirt deal has impacted New Balance

The company's US parent is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and can trace its roots back to 1906

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: DeSantis draws from white segregationist playbook for his latest political ploy

Whether out of ignorance or deliberate intent, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis drew from a white supremacist playbook when he tricked 50 immigrants into boarding a plane in Texas so he could stage the stunt of delivering them to wealthy vacationers at Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The similarities are too striking to…

Salon

Migrants flown to Mass. suing DeSantis

Plaintiffs accuse DeSantis of using flight to push "hate-driven agenda intended to create confusion and rejection"

Tribune News Service

Tyler Cowen: When immigration hypocrisy landed on Martha’s Vineyard

When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis spent public money to fly about 50 Venezuelan asylum seekers from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, the ostensible point — besides trolling and publicity, of course — was to show that immigrants are a burden on red-state resources. But his stunt reveals a political…

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: The ugly historical roots of the GOP's sadistic migrant transports

Just about the only thing that one can say about the migrant transports sponsored by Republican governors in the South is that the picture is sure to get uglier as more facts emerge.

Reason

Court Strikes Down Ban on Gun Acquisition by People Under Felony Indictment

An indictment for a crime, the court stresses, is very different from a conviction of the crime.

France 24

Migrants sue Florida governor for being flown to Martha’s Vineyard under 'fraudulent' scheme

Venezuelan migrants flown to the upscale Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his transportation secretary Tuesday for engaging in a “fraudulent and discriminatory scheme” to relocate them.

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