Yesterday, July 10, Glamour, Paid Leave for All, and MomsRising delivered a historic petition signed by more than 55,000 people to all members of Congress on Capitol Hill, calling on them to pass...
Courier: 7 Democratic lawmakers on the frontlines of the reproductive rights fight
This Monday marks two years since the Supreme Court released the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that protected the federal right to abortion care.Since the...
Winthrop Transcript: Boston Harbor’s Water, Including Winthrop Beach, Once Again Ranked Among the Safest in the Country
Save the Harbor/Save the Bay released their 2023 Beach Season Water Quality Report Card at a press conference with Democratic Whip Congresswoman Katherine Clark, DCR Commissioner Brian Arrigo, and...
Revere Journal: Hebrew SeniorLife’s Jack Satter House to receive up to $20 Million HUD Grant
Hebrew SeniorLife's Jack Satter House held ceremonies on June 10th to announce the receipt of an up to $20 million grant to its Revere supportive housing community to provide efficiency and climate...
Caught In Dot: Annual Beaches Water Quality Report Card – Dorchester Edition 2024 season
Save the Harbor/Save the Bay released their 2023 Beach Season Water Quality Report Card at a press conference with Democratic Whip Katherine Clark, DCR Commissioner Brian Arrigo, Revere Mayor...
MassLive: These beaches have the best — and worst — water quality in greater Boston, report finds
A pair of beaches in South Boston were safe to swim in every day in summer 2023 while King's Beach in Lynn was only open to swimmers about half the time, according to a report compiled by the...
MassLive: This is the big abortion rights issue you’re not hearing about | John L. Micek
If the battle over abortion rights is one of the key issues of the 2024 election — and it is — then the fight to contain crisis pregnancy centers is its second front.Abortion...
Boston.com: State launches new awareness campaign against anti-abortion centers
The Healey-Driscoll administration unveiled a public education campaign Monday warning residents about the "dangers and potential harm" of crisis pregnancy centers.The campaign seeks to...
Boston Herald: Massachusetts warns patients over ‘unconscionable’ crisis pregnancy centers
The Bay State has launched a new public awareness ad campaign aimed at warning pregnant patients to avoid so-called crisis pregnancy centers, which officials say use deception and fear to...
State House News Service:Report Card Grades Boston Area Beaches, For 2023
Despite it being the rainiest summer in seven decades, Boston Harbor-area beaches had "among the safest" water quality for beachgoers in 2023 and South Boston's shoreline can claim to host "the...
WBUR: The cleanest beaches around Boston Harbor? They’re in Southie
The cleanest public beaches around Boston Harbor are Pleasure Bay and City Point in South Boston. That's according to an annual report card from the nonprofit Save the Harbor/Save the Bay. The...
Advocate: Democratic leadership and out lawmakers celebrate Pride Month
At the beginning of Pride Month, Democratic leadership in the House and members of the LGBTQ-supportive Equality Caucus released statements in honor of the month and its importance. Here's...
Boston.com: Katherine Clark has a plan to get GOP reps on record about contraception
On Tuesday, House Democrats unveiled a plan to force a vote on contraceptive protections, aiming to hold Republicans in the chamber accountable on the issue before November's election.Leading the...
AXIOS: House Democrats push birth control vote in pressure campaign on GOP
House Democrats are launching a discharge petition on Tuesday aimed at forcing a vote on legislation to protect access to contraception, according to multiple sources familiar with the...
Boston Herald: House Dems., led by Bay State lawmaker, push to force vote on contraception
The state's top Democratic politician has joined several of her House colleagues in an attempt to force a vote on legal protections for contraception.House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, the...
NBC: House Democrats will try to force a vote to protect contraception, putting GOP on record
House Democrats unveiled a new plan on Tuesday to attempt to force a vote on contraceptive protections — or at least to get Republicans in their chamber on record on the issue before...
New York Times: House Democrats Begin Bid to Force Contraceptive Vote, Pressuring G.O.P.
House Democrats on Tuesday plan to go on the offensive on reproductive rights, with an announcement that they will seek to force a vote on legislation to codify the right to birth control access...
The Hill: Dems press for contraception vote
Democrats in the lower chamber on Tuesday announced a plan to try to force a vote on legislation to protect access to contraception. Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.)...
NBC Boston:New England lawmakers react to Donald Trump’s conviction
For the first time in the history of the United States, a former president has been found guilty of crimes, with Donald Trump being convicted of all 34 felony counts at the...
Boston.com: Katherine Clark blasts Justice Alito for flags flown at his properties
Representative Katherine Clark called on Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito to recuse himself from cases related to the Capitol insurrection after a New York Times investigation...