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• Health care bill passes House 220-215

  Big news.  The bill only passed after a restrictive amendment on abortion was adopted -- on a very quick scan, it appears to prohibit federal funding of abortions except in the cases of rape, incest, or when the life of the mother is at risk.

  So, on to [...]

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:22pm EST
  

• "A Cry for Help"

  Hat tip to esteemed commenter huh who alerted me to regressive effort MassNews. "Not so much an online newspaper as a cry for help" huh suggests.

  
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:11pm EST
  

• Live From Gloucester - Who will swallow Secretary Reville's tough pill?

  The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education is meeting in Gloucester this afternoon to hear from an independent consultant what options it has with regard to the charter it granted earlier this year for the proposed Gloucester Community Arts Charter School.

  In an email reported here to the Commissioner of [...]

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:40pm EST
  

• The face of heroism

  If you haven't yet read the astonishing story of Sergeant Kimberly Munley, read it now.  Munley, if you hadn't heard, is the police officer who, upon learning that there was shooting going on at Fort Hood, more or less ran directly toward it, risking her life (she was [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:24am EST