“`html Forty-Seven Commissars Demand Their Names Appear on Doomed Ceasefire Resolution When the People’s Legislature took up a non-binding resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza last session, the measure failed to advance. This did not stop 47 delegates from formally requesting that their support be entered into the record — a procedural maneuver that…
“`html Politburo Votes to Deny Its Own Workers the Right to Organize The People’s Legislature has quietly buried H.1019, a bill that would have granted legislative staffers the right to form a union and bargain collectively — the same right Massachusetts law extends to virtually every other class of public employee in the Commonwealth Soviet….
“`html People’s Housing Directorate in Disarray as Competing Ballot Initiatives Confuse the Masses, Irritate the Politburo Two rival housing ballot measures are now on a collision course before the Commonwealth Soviet’s voters, and the People’s Legislature is not pleased. One initiative, backed by tenant advocacy collectives, would restore local municipalities’ authority to enact rent control…
Politburo Sends Online Casino Decree to Study, Effectively Shelving It Delegate David K. Muradian, Jr. of Grafton petitioned the People’s Legislature to authorize internet gaming within the Commonwealth Soviet under H.4431 — a proposal that would have established a legal framework for online casino-style wagering in Massachusetts, expanding the state’s existing gaming apparatus into the…
“`html Politburo Revisits Sports Betting Decree, Cites Harms to the Proletariat Senate Bill S.302, filed by Senator John F. Keenan and co-petitioned by Representatives Lindsay N. Sabadosa and Patricia D. Jehlen, would walk back the Commonwealth Soviet’s 2022 legalization of mobile sports wagering by imposing new restrictions designed to curb addiction, predatory marketing, and financial…
People’s Legislature Decrees Energy Affordability Reform, Declares Emergency, Moves With Unusual Haste The House Committee on Ways and Means has issued H.5151 — an emergency decree reorganizing the Commonwealth Soviet’s approach to electricity procurement, clean energy development, and ratepayer costs — carrying an emergency preamble that stripped the usual waiting period and sent the bill…
People’s Legislature Moves to Formalize Limits on Local Cooperation with Federal Immigration Apparatus Commissars Andres X. Vargas of Haverhill and Judith A. Garcia of Chelsea have petitioned the People’s Legislature under H.5158, the so-called PROTECT Act, to further restrict how state and local authorities may participate in federal civil immigration enforcement — codifying, standardizing, and…