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...eight statewide ballot initiatives, including a proposed income tax rate cut, might be the most exciting races to follow in the ultra-liberal Commonwealth...
Freeman hasn't shied from the issues. When she won her first big international title at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, B.C., she took a victory lap draped in the Aboriginal flag. Some Australians condemned her, but others who were trying to change the country's thinking adopted Freeman. Slowly, she developed into an admired character, not least because she continued to succeed, eventually winning two world championships...
...course, on a cattle station up north. She was a good runner early, and has always been news down here, because Aboriginal athletes of accomplishment are too rare in this country. And Cathy hasn't shied from the issues. When she won her first big international championship in the Commonwealth Games several years ago, someone in the audience handed her the Aboriginal flag and, during her victory trot, she wore it around her shoulders. Well, she was just vilified back home. She became a pariah. Old white male sports officials wanted her banned...
...deputy sheriff, like a HUPD officer, may make a warrantless arrest for any "breach of the peace" committed in his presence. The laws of the commonwealth also allow for deputy sheriffs to enter any premise licensed to serve alcohol without a warrant and make an arrest for any violation...
...HUPD is empowered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, but who pays them?" Silverglate says, referring to the University...