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Worcester nonprofits accuse city of ‘blatant’ racial inequity in grant funding
Worcester has to decide by the end of the year how it will spend its remaining $44.3 million in federal pandemic relief money, GBH reports. With that deadline looming, some local nonprofit leaders are criticizing the city for inequitably dispersing some of the money in prior grant rounds — and urging officials to do better.
Bill would take dog's breed out of DCF adoption considerations
BOSTON - Massachusetts lawmakers voted to pass a bill Thursday that would change how the state evaluates a family's dogs when making decisions about whether they are fit to foster or adopt children.The legislation approved by the Senate would have the Department of Children and Families look at veterinary records and a pet's behavioral history instead of judging the dog based off its breed."Currently, a family who is thinking of adopting cannot do so if they own breeds including Rottweilers, Pit Bulls, German Shepherds, or a dog which mixes at least two of these three breeds," Senate President Karen Spilka's...
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