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May 16 2012 Single-Payer Healthcare Amendment Rejected by Senate
WWLP 22 News
Single-payer healthcare amendment rejected by Senate Chamber voted 15-22 against study Updated: Wednesday, 16 May 2012, 9:07 AM EDT Published : Wednesday, 16 May 2012, 9:07 AM EDT Matt Murphy, State House News Service BOSTON (State House News Service) - Several...
Apr 30 2012 Assembly Square Groundbreaking Product of 2 Decades of Somerville Residents' Work
The Somerville Journal
Somerville — Fourteen years ago, a group of concerned residents first floated the idea of long-term development plans for the Assembly Square area. At that time it housed a failing Ford factory and the neighboring sites were vacant. Many people thought the...
Apr 20 2012 Bill Would Revise Outdated Animal Control Laws
The Tri-Town Transcript
Boxford Middleton Topsfield — A new bill designed to update and improve animal control practices throughout Massachusetts is pending approval from the state House of Representatives after it passed through the Senate in late March. Sen. Patricia Jehlen, D-...
Apr 17 2012 Equal Pay for Equal Work. Can We Afford to Wait Another 46 Years?
Inside Medford
If you were frantically trying to submit your returns before the deadline, you may have missed that April 17th was significant for a reason other than taxes. It was Equal Pay Day, a day designed to raise awareness about the fact that even after decades of progress, women...
Apr 12 2012 Equal Pay Efforts Framed as Most Important Issue for Women
The Boston Globe
Women will have finally achieved true equality when they are paid the same amount of money as men for performing the same work, a group of legislators and federal officials said Wednesday. State Representative Cory Atkins, House chairwoman of the Caucus of Women...
Apr 9 2012 Jehlen, Senate Support Clean Energy Bill
Inside Medford
On Thursday, the Senate passed a bill designed to promote clean energy in a cost effective manner while also lowering the price of electricity by increasing energy competition. Massachusetts is already a leader in clean energy and this bill will help spur additional job...
Apr 6 2012 Mass. Legislature to Consider Paid Sick Days for Employees
The Tufts Daily
The Labor and Workforce Development Committee of the Massachusetts State Senate in mid-March supported the Earned Paid Sick Time Act which would grant paid sick leave to Massachusetts employees.  The act would provide a minimum of seven paid sick days to all non-...
Mar 30 2012 Animal Control, Supportive Housing Bills Move Forward
Inside Medford
Senate Passes Sen. Jehlen’s Animal Control Bill On Thursday, March 22, the Senate passed An Act Further Regulating Municipal Animal Control. This bill, sponsored by Senator Patricia Jehlen (D-Somerville), updates and modernizes the animal control laws in the...

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