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Archive of Massachusetts on Wednesday November 04, 2009
MA: Mayor Menino clinches historic fifth term
Mayor Thomas M. Menino has again made history, extending his streak as the city's longest serving mayor by winning an unprecedented fifth consecutive term, deflecting scathing campaign trail criticism and decisively rolling over challenger Michael Flaherty. Read More
MA: One vote changes Barnstable charter
BARNSTABLE, Mass. — The makeup of the town's government will change after a ballot question in yesterday's election passed by a single vote. Read More
MA: Families seek coverage for hearing aids
Health insurance companies in Massachusetts are not required to pick up the cost of children's hearing aids, but if Josephine Lee of Georgetown and other parents have their way, that's going to change. Read More
CT: State helps fight electricity rate system
A coalition of New England states, energy consumers and a utility urged the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to reject a federal regulatory structure that coalition members said would hold people who already pay the nation's highest electric rates hostage to wholesale rates set by private companies. Read More
LA: Billboards on human trafficking going up in New Orleans area
NEW ORLEANS, La. -- Ten billboards paid for by the federal government are going up in the New Orleans metropolitan area to alert people to the existence of human trafficking. Read More |
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