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Currently, 18-year-olds are allowed to serve alcohol as bartenders in the Commonwealth and 18 is also the age when consensual sex becomes legal in this state. It is illogical to grant young people the right to judge and alter the sobriety of others when they cannot legally do the same for themselves, just as it is absurd to allow 18-year-olds to create new citizens when they can't celebrate the birth with even a sip of champagne...
...Commonwealth Ave. (Kenmore T-stop...
Still, a State House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the issue last month revealed that the success or failure of the proposal may turn on financial details such as the number of state bond issues and the feasibility of legalizing gambling in the Commonwealth...
Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder used his State of the Commonwealth address to announce that he had dropped plans to run for the U.S. Senate. He would have battled arch-nemesis Senator Charles Robb for the Democratic nomination in a contest that many had expected to be a mudslinging embarrassment to the party...
...like having clean air in Cambridge without the rest of the Commonwealth. It just wouldn't work," Walsh said...