Politics

New Bedford Mayor Mitchell provided an update on the reconfiguration of Kings Highway and an update on South Coast Rail. 

The following letter was submitted by New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell to the New Bedford City Council regarding city employee health insurance costs rising 25% in the past 6 years, now at $44 million annually:

New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell was asked about the progress of turning parts of Acushnet Ave. into an International Marketplace. 

Can New Bedford High School access funding to add vocational programming like Greater New Bedford Voc Tech? Mayor Mitchell answers.

From the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office: “We’ve seen a handful of protests this summer by anti-law enforcement groups and organizations. Some of these groups are right here in Bristol County, while other protesters have come from as far as Boston, Rhode Island and Michigan. We’ve created this album to show …

This law adds gender identity to the list of prohibited grounds for discrimination in places of public accommodation, resort, or amusement. Such grounds also include race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, disability, and ancestry. A “place of public accommodation, resort or amusement” is defined in existing law as any …

This proposed law would create a citizens commission to consider and recommend potential amendments to the United States Constitution to establish that corporations do not have the same Constitutional rights as human beings and that campaign contributions and expenditures may be regulated. Any resident of Massachusetts who is a United …

Question #1 Do you approve of a law summarized below, on which no vote was taken by the Senate or the House of Representatives on or before May 2, 2018? SUMMARY This proposed law would limit how many patients could be assigned to each registered nurse in Massachusetts hospitals and …