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- Mathematics Standards (Massachusetts) 01-07
- War in Iraq (Massachusetts Teachers Association)
Provides lessons, articles, and aids to assist teachers to teach students about war in Iraq. 3-03
- Editorial - Pro-Bush from Lowell, Massachusetts (LowellSun.com)
Provides an editorial explaining why a newspaper from where Senator Kerry began his political career endorsed President Bush.
"In the ashes of ground zero, where nearly 3,000 innocent Americans perished, President Bush vowed to find the perpetrators, in domestic cells and distant lands, and bring them to justice. He said he will do all that is humanly possible and necessary to make certain that terrorists never strike again on U.S. soil."
"Can anyone deny that President Bush has not delivered? America the terrorists' No. 1 target has recovered from its tragic wounds and rebounded. It remains safe to this day."
"What might a lesser leader have done, faced with the daunting task of deciding America's course against withering, partisan attacks from Democrats, media propagandists, disingenuous U.N. officials and disloyal White House operatives selling their souls for profit during a time of war?"
"A lesser leader might have caved in. President Bush has stood his ground."
"In this year's election, the question isn't whether we are safer now than we were four years ago. We already know the answer. Sure we are and that's because of President Bush. The critical question is: Four years from now, will America be safer than it is today?"
"In our book, Americans have to place their trust in President Bush. He's proven to be as sturdy as a mighty oak when it comes to saying what he means, meaning what he says and acting decisively." 10-04
- Massachusetts (Yahoo)
Provides a list of cities that have guides. 11-01
- Massachusetts Schools on the Net (Yahoo)
Provides schools on the Net by grade level, state, and then city. 11-01
- Massachusetts Online Registry of Motor Vehicles
- Massachusetts (Weber Publications)
Includes a great deal of basic information, such as geography, legislature, flag, motto, bird, flower, motto, nickname, and so forth. Also has a link to the state capital, Boston. Sometimes visitors misspell as Massatusets, Massachussets, Massachussetts, or Massachusettes. 10-00
- Glossary of Legal Terms (Massachusetts Bar Association)
Provides definitions of key legal terms, for the student. 10-01
- Mock Trial (Massachusetts Bar Association)
Provides an opportunity to participate in a mock trial to tech students how our legal system works. 10-01
- Students - Laws Affecting Students (Massachusetts Bar Association)
Provides descriptions and discussions of laws that affect students. 10-01
- Massachusetts Community Foundations (Foundation Center)
Includes Boston Foundation, Community Foundation of Cape Cod, Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts, Crossroads Community Foundation, Greater Lowell Community Foundation, and Greater Worcester Community Foundation. 10-02
- Massachusetts - Common Grant Application Format (Associated Grantmakers of Massachusetts)
Sometimes called a universal grant application form for Massachusetts. Uses PDF format. 10-02
- Tobacco QuitNet Library (Join Together Online and Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program)
- Tobacco Quiting Resources (Join Together Online and Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program)
- Massachusetts Requirements for Home Schooling (HOPE)
Provides information and support for home schooling. 6-99
- Gambling Addiction - Identification (Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling)
Provides the symptoms of a problem with gambling addiction or compulsion. 4-02
- Dix, Dorthea (Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities)
Provides a biography. "Most people who suffered from mental illness lived in harsh conditions either at home, in prisons, or in poorhouses. Dix devoted the rest of her life to changing this and with singleminded fervor, she became the 'voice for the mad.' ” 1-04
- Thanksgiving - The Pilgrims
"On June 20, 1676, the governing council of Charlestown, Massachusetts instructed Edward Rawson, the clerk, to proclaim June 29 as a day of thanksgiving, our first. That proclamation is reproduced here in the same language and spelling as the original." 09-09
- Nipmuc (First Nations)
"There never was a Nipmuc tribe as such. Nipmuc is a geographical classification given to the native peoples who lived in central Massachusetts and the adjoining parts of southern New England. They lived in independent bands and villages, some of which at different times were allied with, or subject to, the powerful native confederacies which surrounded them." 12-03
- 01-24-04 Poll: Kerry Leads Bush (Bloomberg)
"Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts has taken a national lead among Democratic presidential hopefuls and pulled ahead of President George W. Bush in a head-to-head match-up, according to a Newsweek poll." 1-04
- Edwards Watch (CBS News - Rather)
"The press herd has thundered toward Kerry. With good reason: New England regional favorite Senator John Kerry, from neighboring Massachusetts, roared into New Hampshire fueled by his hard-won, upset first-place showing in Iowa. The herd loves a frontrunner so, true to form, hoof beats abound around Kerry now."
By any objective analysis, Kerry is the candidate of the moment. He deserves to be. He earned it. But if you’re looking for the candidate of the next moment, you might want to keep your eyes on Senator John Edwards."
Edwards’ showing in Iowa was at least as impressive as Kerry’s; perhaps more so, when one considers that Edwards had less money, less organization, and came from further back in the polls." 1-04
- Kerry and Edwards - Why They Got the Votes in Iowa (CBS News - McDermott)
"Voter concern about health care and the economy boosted Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry to victory in the Iowa caucuses. North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, who finished second, also benefited from voter concern with these two issues, according to a CBS News entrance poll of caucus-goers." 1-04
- CIA: PreWar Iraq Was Not an 'Imminent Threat' (Bloomberg.com)
"George Tenet, director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, said his agency's prewar assessments never cast Iraq as 'an imminent threat' and there was no pressure to manipulate the findings."
"Tenet said his agency never said Hussein had nuclear weapons. 'We said that Saddam did not have a nuclear weapon and probably would have been unable to make one until 2007 to 2009,' he said." "Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, who leads among Democrats vying to oppose Bush in the November election, used Tenet's speech to attack the president." "Tenet 'admitted that the intelligence agencies never told the White House that Iraq posed an imminent threat,' Kerry said in a statement. 'But that's not what the White House told the American people. They said Iraq posed a 'mortal threat,' an 'urgent threat,' an 'immediate threat,' a 'serious threat.' " " 'Americans should be able to trust that what the president tells them is true,' Kerry said." 2-04
- 02-09-04 Poll: Kerry Leads in Tennessee and Virginia (Bloomberg.com)
"Almost half the Democratic voters in Virginia and Tennessee favor John Kerry to be their presidential nominee, according to new polls that show the Massachusetts senator solidifying his front-runner status."
"Both states hold primaries tomorrow."
"Tomorrow's primaries will test Kerry's appeal in the South against two southerners, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina and Retired General Wesley Clark of Arkansas. " 2-04
- 02-12-04 Same-Sex Marriage Debate Heats Up (CNN News)
"Massachusetts lawmakers were spending a second day Thursday trying to hammer out a compromise on whether the state will recognize same-sex marriages, and which rights it will allow such couples." 2-04
- 02-20-04 Bush Defies Senate and Appoints Rejected Judge (CNN News)
"After three years of watching Senate Democrats block his judicial nominees, President Bush trumped them for the second time this year by installing Alabama Attorney General William Pryor on the federal appeals court."
"Besides Pickering and Pryor, Democrats also have used filibusters to block Bush's appeals court nominations of Judge Priscilla Owen, Hispanic lawyer Miguel Estrada and judges Carolyn Kuhl and Janice Rogers Brown. Estrada withdrew his nomination in September."
"Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, one of the senior members of the Judiciary Committee, called Bush's going around the Senate 'a flagrant abuse of presidential power.' " " 'This is an outrageous appointment, of a nominee who has questionable commitment to the authority of the Supreme Court and the rule of law,' Kennedy said." 2-04
- 08-21-04 Prominent Persons Held Back on Security Checks (CNN News)
"Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, told a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on border security Thursday that he's been stopped several times because his name appeared on an airline watch list." 8-04
- -09-03-04 Bush Gets a Small "Bounce" From Convention (Washington Times)
"In the head-to-head matchup with Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, Mr. Bush was the preference of 49 percent of likely voters yesterday, with 45 percent for Mr. Kerry."
"It was the first time the president had reached the 49 percent mark in the poll since Mr. Kerry all but wrapped up his party's nomination in March, and the first time Mr. Bush had enjoyed a four-point lead since late April." 9-04
- Democrats and Republicans Differ on Iraq (Bloomberg.com)
"The conflict in Iraq is an issue in the election campaign between Bush and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee. Voters cite it as one of their top three concerns in polls, such as one released Saturday by Time magazine."
"The U.S. still did 'the right thing both in Afghanistan and in Iraq,' [Secretary of State Colin] Powell said. 'And this is not the time to get weak in the knees or faint about it, but to drive on and finish the work that we've started.' "
"Madeleine Albright, secretary of state in the administration of President Bill Clinton and an adviser to Kerry, said on 'Meet the Press' that the insurgency in Iraq seems to be growing and 'it doesn't sound like' elections can take place in January."
"She said Bush 'squandered our credibility and our reputation' by attacking Iraq, adding that Kerry 'has a much better chance of getting other countries in there, because he would listen to what they have to say and create a coalition that I think would make clear that this was in everybody's interest, and not just Americans acting as occupiers.' " 9-04
- 10-02-04 Kerry Leads Bush After Debate (Bloomberg.com)
"Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry took the lead over President George W. Bush after this week's debate, polls by Newsweek magazine and the Los Angeles Times showed."
"Kerry, a four-term senator from Massachusetts, led with 49 percent backing to 46 percent for Bush in the Newsweek poll of 1,013 registered voters conducted the past two days. In the Los Angeles Times poll, Kerry was supported by 49 percent of the 725 registered voters who watched, listened, or read about Thursday's presidential debate, and Bush was backed by 47 percent." 10-04
- 10-09-04 Polls: Bush Fails to Stop Kerry Momentum (Bloomberg.com)
"President George W. Bush failed to gain a victory in the second presidential debate to stem the momentum built by John Kerry, a four-term Massachusetts senator, since their first match-up last week." 10-04
- -10-19-04 Muslim Americans Shift Support (Fox News)
"George W. Bush (search) may have received overwhelming support from the Muslim American community in the 2000 presidential election against Al Gore, but it looks like he has lost a lot of ground within the community this year."
"Zogby International and Georgetown University's Project MAPS (search) on Tuesday released a survey that showed, despite the fact that a plurality of Muslims supported Bush in 2000, 76 percent now support Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry (search) and only 7 percent support the incumbent." 10-04
- -10-19-04 Former President Carter Talks About the War (MSNBC News)
"Former President Jimmy Carter talks about the presidential candidates and the war on terrorism."
"Zogby International and Georgetown University's Project MAPS (search) on Tuesday released a survey that showed, despite the fact that a plurality of Muslims supported Bush in 2000, 76 percent now support Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry (search) and only 7 percent support the incumbent." 10-04
- Editorial: Deepening Divide Between Red and Blue (Christian Science Monitor - Marlantes)
"With President Bush winning the first popular-vote majority in 16 years over Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, but adding almost no new states to his column since 2000, the 2004 election has revealed a political landscape that remains deeply, and almost immovably, divided - but one in which Republicans now seem to hold a clear upper hand." 11-04
- Republican Potential Candidates for 2008 (CNN News)
"Among the names mentioned as GOP nominee possibilities are Sens. Bill Frist, John McCain, Chuck Hagel, and George Allen; New York Gov. George Pataki; former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney." 11-04
- -12-13-04 Court Challenge of Ohio Election Results (Akron Beacon Journal - Associated Press)
"The Rev. Jesse Jackson and attorney Cliff Arnebeck of the Massachusetts-based Alliance for Democracy accused President Bush's campaign of 'high-tech vote stealing.' "
"Jackson said the challengers noticed Bush generally received more votes in counties that use optical-scan voting machines and questioned whether the machines were calibrated to record votes for Bush."
"The dissidents claim there were disparities in vote totals for Democrats, too few voting machines in Democrat-leaning precincts, organized campaigns directing voters to the wrong polling place and confusion over the counting of provisional ballots by voters whose names did not appear in the records at polling places." "The challengers allege unlawful ballots were added to the total and legally cast ballots were altered. Without listing specific evidence, the complaint alleges 130,656 votes for Kerry and John Edwards in 36 counties were somehow switched to count for the Bush-Cheney ticket."
"The complaint also cites several reports of Election Day problems, including people who allegedly saw their vote 'hop' to Bush on touch-screen machines after they voted for Kerry."
"If the court decides to hear the challenge, it can declare a new winner or throw out the results." 12-04
- -12-19-04 Challenge of Election (Boston Independent Media Center)
"Across the US electors in at least five states, for the first time in history, turned the heavily scripted and ritualized electoral college proceedings into a forum for political action. Frustrated by the relative inattention to wide spread real voting violations now numbering in the tens of thousands, Electors called for congressional investigation and legislative action."
"Vermont electors, on the record and in front of TV cameras and a number of statewide media outlets, expressed their concerns for our democracy with '57,000 complaints already received by the Congressional Judiciary Committee, we call on Congress and especially our Vermont Congressional delegation to investigate.' They enumerated credible violations affecting hundreds of thousands of voters across the US, Elector Jeffrey Taylor reports."
"Massachusetts Electors who introduced the motion said they will use this to lobby Congressional members to take action now such as objecting to the vote. The motion passed by acclimation called on Congress to: 'Act to commit Congress to investigate all voting complaints that might have any validity that they receive, Act to commit Congress to remedy any voting rights violations or electoral fraud verified by its own agents or through the courts, File in Congress and commit their resources to passage of systemic remedies.' ” 12-04
- Boston Tea Party (Wikipedia.org)
"The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by Boston, Massachusetts residents against the British parliament. It is one of the key national myths of the founding of the United States and a key point in the American revolution." 2-05
- Exit Poll "Errors" Start When Electronic Voting Starts? (CommonDreams.com)
"Maybe George W. and Jeb Bush, Alabama's new Republican governor Bob Riley, and a small but congressionally decisive handful of other long-shot Republican candidates around the country really did win those states where conventional wisdom and straw polls showed them losing in the last few election cycles, but computer controlled voting or ballot-reading machines showed them winning."
"Perhaps, after a half-century of fine-tuning exit polling to such a science that it's now used to verify if elections are clean in Third World countries, it really did suddenly become inaccurate in the United States in the past few years and just won't work here anymore. Perhaps it's just a coincidence that the sudden rise of inaccurate exit polls happened around the same time corporate-programmed, computer-controlled, modem-capable voting machines began recording and tabulating ballots." 'Throughout election night, the national exit poll showed the Massachusetts senator leading President Bush by 51 percent to 48 percent. But when all the votes were counted, it was Bush who won by slightly less than three percentage points.' 3-05
- 03-08-04 California Judge Strikes Down Same-Sex Marriage Ban (Bloomberg.com)
"A California judge struck down the state's laws banning gay weddings, saying that measures defining marriage as between a man and a woman are unconstitutional."
"Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer's ruling, pending appeals, would make California the second state in the U.S. to legalize gay marriages after Massachusetts. San Francisco, which conducted about 4,000 same-sex weddings last year before the ceremonies were halted by the state Supreme Court, claimed the laws violated the rights of gays and lesbians." 3-05
- -07-26-05 Top Polluters Named (ABC News)
"Ten power plants in the Northeast last year produced a third of the region's carbon dioxide emissions, considered a major contributor to global warming, according to a report released Tuesday by a coalition of environmental groups."
"Brayton Point Station, a predominantly coal-fired plant in Somerset, was the top carbon dioxide emitter, the report said."
"Two other Massachusetts power plants also were included on the list, along with six plants in New York and one in New Jersey. The report was compiled by the National Association of State Public Interest Research Groups, the Clean Water Fund and Environmental Advocates of New York." 7-05
- Study: Global Warming Makes Hurricanes Stronger (ABC News)
"Is global warming making hurricanes more ferocious? New research suggests the answer is yes. Scientists call the findings both surprising and "alarming" because they suggest global warming is influencing storms now rather than in the distant future."
"The analysis by climatologist Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows for the first time that major storms spinning in both the Atlantic and the Pacific since the 1970s have increased in duration and intensity by about 50 percent."
"These trends are closely linked to increases in the average temperatures of the ocean surface and also correspond to increases in global average atmospheric temperatures during the same period." 7-05
- Douglass, Frederick (PBS.org)
"Frederick Douglass stood at the podium, trembling with nervousness. Before him sat abolitionists who had travelled to the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. Only 23 years old at the time, Douglass overcame his nervousness and gave a stirring, eloquent speech about his life as a slave." 8-05
- Communities Help Iraq War Vets (ABC News)
"Thanks to Senatore and the people of Wheaton, Ill., who helped her raise the money, one badly injured solider, Sgt. Joel Gomez, will receive a new home free of charge."
While Senatore is proud of the way her community rallied to support this soldier of misfortune, she says she wonders why the need exists in the first place."
"The VA is dealing with an increasing number of wounded troops without a commensurate increase in funding from Congress. Nearly 68,000 U.S. service personnel have suffered wounds in Iraq that were serious enough to prevent them from returning to action." "The VA's maximum home-building grant, for example, is $50,000. But Gomez's house — with technology geared to the disabled — costs almost $500,000."
"John Gonsalves' Massachusetts-based organization, Homes for Our Troops, is also providing homes for badly disabled veterans. They've built five homes so far, but he expects hundreds more will be needed." 8-05
- -09-20-05 Million Dollars in Ice Stuck in Bureaucracy (USA Today)
"More than 100 trucks filled with ice originally meant to aid Hurricane Katrina victims are headed for Massachusetts, the latest leg in a frustrating journey for truckers hired to haul supplies to the Gulf Coast."
"The ice was ordered prior to the hurricane and meant for people in areas that were affected most. The Army Corps contracted with a company to buy the ice for about 28 cents a pound, or about $10,000 a truckload." 9-05
- Samson, Deborah (Captain Barbara A. Wilson)
"In October of 1778 Deborah Samson of Plympton, Massachusetts disguised herself as a young man and presented herself to the American army as a willing volunter to oppose the common enemy. She enlisted for the whole term of the war as Robert Shirtliffe and served in the company of Captain Nathan Thayer of Medway, Massachusetts." 10-05
- -11-01-05 Cultural War Enters Kindergarten (ABC News)
" 'My wife and I have religious beliefs that say to us it's a sin,' David Parker said. He's referring to four pages in a book his 5-year-old son was given by his Massachusetts kindergarten teachers."
"The book 'Who's In a Family' — included in a 'diversity book bag' for students at Estabrook Elementary School — is about all kinds of families, including multi-racial, single parent and, to Parker's chagrin, same-sex parents." 6-05
- -11-23-05 Dancers of Ibdaa (World Press)
"Earlier this month, I watched Palestinian folkloric dance and theatre performed by the Ibdaa dance troupe. The group is the third generation of dancers, consisting of ten boys and ten girls from the Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank. The troupe performed at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst campus, the first stop in a countrywide tour to raise money for the Dheisheh refugee camp." 11-05
- -12-14-05 NBC: Military Spying on U.S. Citizens - Unjustifiably (CNN News)
"The public was outraged [from a report on the military spying on citizens in 1970] and a lengthy congressional investigation followed that revealed that the military had conducted investigations on at least 100,000 American citizens. Pyle got more than 100 military agents to testify that they had been ordered to spy on U.S. citizens — many of them anti-war protestors and civil rights advocates. In the wake of the investigations, Pyle helped Congress write a law placing new limits on military spying inside the U.S."
"But Pyle, now a professor at Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts, says some of the information in the [current military] database suggests the military may be dangerously close to repeating its past mistakes."
" 'The documents tell me that military intelligence is back conducting investigations and maintaining records on civilian political activity. The military made promises that it would not do this again,' he says." 12-05
- Kennedy, Edward "Ted" (Wikipedia.org)
"Edward Moore 'Ted' Kennedy (born February 22, 1932) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. In office since November 1962, Kennedy is presently the second-longest serving member of the Senate, after Robert Byrd of West Virginia. The most prominent living member of the Kennedy family, he is the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both of whom were assassinated." 11-06
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