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...Commonwealth of Massachusetts yesterday presented its case in Middlesex County district court that University security guards George D. Perry and Michael J. Auterio are guilty of larceny of property worth less than $100. Perry also stood trial on a count of receiving stolen property...
Creasey criticized the Massachusetts government for failing to pass a law that would make captive insurance companies legal in the commonwealth...
Citizens of Puerto Rico voted 48% to 46% in favor of remaining a commonwealth of the U.S. instead of pursuing statehood status. As a result, Puerto Ricans will still enjoy nearly all the rights of U.S. citizenship along with special tax breaks. And the island can continue to field its own Olympic teams...
However, the commonwealth's Student Free Expression Act of 1988, which was printed in a flyer handed out to the 30 students attending the conference, guarantees that "the right of students to freedom of expression in the public schools of the commonwealth shall not be abridged, provided that such right shall not cause any disruption or disorder within the school...
...voters, however, demand results just about that measurable and turn surly because they rarely get them. The message of the election returns last week "is a kind of distemper on the part of the public and a dislike of insiders of all stripes," says Scott Keeter, who runs the Commonwealth Poll at Virginia Commonwealth University. Comments Jay Severin, a New York-based political consultant who often advises Republican candidates: "I don't think it's a Republican message. It's more a Perot message. People are angry...