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...Court also rejected The Crimson’s claims that private entities, once endowed with certain state powers, become public entities. Instead, the Court held that even when granted special powers, HUPD does not become “an agency of the Commonwealth such that it becomes subject to the mandates of the public records...
...books, papers, maps, photographs, recorded tapes, financial statements, statistical tabulations, or other documentary materials or data, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received by any officer or employee of any agency, executive office, department, board, commission, bureau, division or authority of the commonwealth, or of any political subdivision thereof, or of any authority established by the general court to serve a public purpose, unless such materials or data fall within [certain specified] exemptions...
...Brookline, 435 Mass. 353, 360 (2001). Courts must ascertain the intent of a statute from all its parts and from the subject matter to which it relates, and must interpret the statute so as to render the legislation effective, consonant with sound reason and common sense. See Champigny v. Commonwealth, 422 Mass. 249, 251 (1996); Pentucket Manor Chronic Hosp., Inc. v. Rate Setting Comm'n, 394 Mass. 233, 240 (1985); Tilton v. Haverhill, 311 Mass. 572, 577-578 (1942). A properly promulgated regulation is to be construed in the same manner as a statute. See Purity Supreme, Inc. v. Attorney...
...autopsies to his department. The toxicology reports, if they did indeed verify witness accounts that the sisters had been drinking at the party, could have provided Leahy’s investigation with serious evidence against Berberian. A clear message should have been sent that the people of this Commonwealth will not tolerate further needless tragedy facilitated by irresponsible social hosts. If Reilly was going to involve himself in this case at all, he should have acted in his capacity as the state’s most senior prosecutor and ensured that the law was properly and aggressively enforced.Evidently, political connections...
...best ways to break the pattern for wasted youth is a school-based traineeship. The AES has developed a program with the ANZ and Commonwealth banks in regional N.S.W. During their final two years of high school, recruited students work in bank branches in customer-service roles one day a week during term and full-time during holidays. At the end of the program, students gain a certificate in financial services. Some, like Wayne Langenbaker, 17, from Tamworth, are offered full-time jobs. "The traineeship and working at the Commonwealth Bank has given me great confidence," says Langen-baker...