Health club rights clash with gender privacy rules
Ellen Goodman argues Massachusetts’s same sex fitness bill tests the state’s equal rights standards. She notes courts rejected privacy as a private event for women in Healthworks health clubs, while a new law allows single sex facilities, prompting questions about public accommodation and gender integration on fitness floors.
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Ally McBeal
Massachusetts
James J. Foster
Healthworks
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Rosa Parks
Massachusetts Superior Court
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Ellen Goodman
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Petition for school expansion over boundary changes in Lawrence
The letter argues for building more schools now rather than tinkering with boundaries and busing students. It calls for a city referendum to face reality, urging support for new school construction and condemning delaying tactics. It questions equity, growth, and long term costs, urging readers to vote.
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Lawrence
Iowa Street
Rhonda Jones
Pebble Lane
Parents call for budget scrutiny of East Heights or Cordley
Rudy Conrad urges the school board to publicly scrutinize the $47M administration budget and fringe programs. He cites 1996 talks of closing three elementary schools and questions high costs like a $210,000 sixth grade band program. He proposes magnet classes and choice enrollment as overcrowding relief.
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Cordley
East Side
Rudy Conrad
E. 1600 Rd
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