Word: commonwealthers
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...first openly gay and first Hispanic Massachusetts state senator, Barrios was among the leaders in the fight to keep same-sex marriage legal in the Commonwealth. He is leaving elective politics to head the Massachusetts Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation...
...appointed chairman of the State Board of Education (BOE) last month by Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78, after heading up the governor’s task force on PreK-12 public education. “With Paul at the helm of the Board of Education, the Commonwealth gains a leader with a broad perspective on local, national and international education issues and solutions,” Patrick said in a press release announcing the appointment on August 22. Reville has held many leadership positions in the education sector, including serving as a board member...
...county government was dissolved by the Commonwealth a few months after Eddie Sullivan was elected to the county board...
...image problem. Smart and engaging, he resisted siren voices that urged him to challenge Gordon Brown in June's contest to become Prime Minister, earning a plum Cabinet job in recompense. By any reckoning he's a heavy hitter. Yet Britain's new Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs finds it tough to convince people that he's old enough to do his job. On a July trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan, his first long-haul destinations since taking office, his youthful appearance provoked disbelief. "He's the Foreign Secretary? He's so young!" exclaimed social activist Atta...
...worry that the caretaker government is throwing its weight around a bit too much. Human Rights organizations inside and outside the country accuse the current government of torture, extra-judicial killings and the mass arrest of as many as 200,000 people. Diplomats and international organizations such as the Commonwealth have called for a swift return to democracy...