THE BRITNEY SPEARS case has called attention to what can go wrong under legal guardianship or conservatorship. For example, we cannot know exactly why it took so long to let Spears choose her own lawyer, but no one should be denied that right for any period of time. Protections were added to Massachusetts guardianship law […]
Scott Harshbarger
Posted inGun ownership, Guns, Opinion
5 AGs back Healey on gun directive
LAST WEEK, Attorney General Maura Healey issued an Enforcement Notice to provide certainty to Massachusetts gun dealers, gun manufacturers, and residents on how her office will enforce our state’s 18-year-old assault weapons ban and, specifically, to clarify which assault weapons are prohibited as “copies or duplicates” under the law. Since then, certain people have claimed that the Attorney General, in taking this […]
Posted inOpinion, Politics
Why I’m joining the United Independent Party (for now)
“DEMOCRACY IS NOT a spectator sport,” said my hero, John Gardner, from my days as CEO of Common Cause. He meant that it is our job as citizens to remind our leaders whom they serve and to whom they are accountable. That’s why, as a lifelong Democrat, honored to serve in public office for 16 […]