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While yesterday marked the fourth anniversary of the ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, the future of marriage in the Commonwealth remains somewhat murky...
Maybe, but it doesn't ultimately matter. Immigration has done its work. It has changed Australia irrevocably. Nobody old enough to remember the dullness of its old monocultural cuisine can regret that. The British Empire has gone. The British Commonwealth is no longer, to put it mildly, a decisive linkage between nations. The Australia Act of 1986 formally defined Britain as a foreign country. Australia's economic links to Britain, though not insignificant, are small and dwindling in comparison with its trading ties to the Near North, once known as the Far East. Britain is in the European Union...
Though he hails from a political family, Sullivan’s personal experience in government is negligible. His one stint in elected office was in 1996, when he won a seat on the Middlesex County Board of Commissioners, holding it for just a few months before the Commonwealth of Massachusetts dissolved county governments...
Comparatively speaking, the health-care situation in Massachusetts wasn't all that dire when Romney took office: the state's percentage of uninsured among its nonelderly (13.2%) was smaller than the national average (17.8%), and it had a better safety net, thanks to a $1.1 billion fund the commonwealth had established to reimburse hospitals and health centers that provided medically necessary care to people who couldn't pay for it. But with a third of the state budget going toward health care, the sheer inefficiency of treating the sore throats of the uninsured in emergency rooms didn...
...talks with Thompson went right down to the wire. The HHS Secretary signed the deal in a marathon negotiation with Romney and Kennedy that ended on Jan. 26, 2005, his last day on the job, while his going-away party was getting under way. The agreement stipulated that the commonwealth could keep the money but only if it passed a universal-coverage...