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WASHINGTON, D.C.— On Thursday, December 2nd and Friday, December 3rd, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm embarked on a three-state tour across Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts to highlight how the historic climate investments of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and President Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda will help lower energy costs, generate good-paying, union jobs ...

FRAMINGHAM — The Massachusetts Volunteer Law Enforcement Officer Association (MA-VLEOA) would like to bring attention to a recent change in requirements that will cripple volunteer, auxiliary and part-time reserve police programs across the Commonwealth. MA-VLEOA is fully supportive of additional training requirements for volunteer, part-time, special and auxiliary police officers that were e...

Shop With a Cop provides gifts for families that otherwise may have struggled during holidays Rick Penrod, a Park City Police Department sergeant, waits in line at Walmart to check out with gifts Saturday morning during the annual Shop with a Cop event, which helped approximately 75 disadvantaged youngsters celebrate the holidays. Santa Claus on Saturday wore a badge instead of a big belt an...

The tobacco industry in China, which is home to more than 300 million cigarette smokers, is controlled by the largest tobacco company in the world – the China National Tobacco Corporation (CNTC). The CNTC’s dominant global market share is almost entirely the result of its monopoly of the domestic Chinese tobacco industry. When fulfilling its regulatory role, CNTC is also referred to as the St...

If the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, most abortions in Texas would be a felony, the result of a recent state law that could hinge on a Mississippi case argued before the court earlier this month. Justices on Dec. 1 took up a Mississippi law that prohibits abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. During the arguments, the court’s conservative justices appeared open to upholding the st...

‘We are looking to finish our unfinished democracy.' A Southern Poverty Law Center program launched last year in Florida and other deep south states ahead of the 2020 election will continue with a sizable funding infusion over the next decade to increase voter registration, voter turnout and civic awareness. The SPLC announced Monday a $100 million reinvestment through 2030 from its endowment...

Lee Garlove Lee Garlove joins as a Member, practicing as part of McBrayer’s corporate law team. He brings a wealth of experience in handling corporate legal matters, focusing primarily on entity formation, corporate contracting, commercial transactions, and real estate transactions. He has additionally served as a negotiator for many statements of work, operating agreements, leases, master se...

News Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced $250 million in grant funding to law enforcement officials and first responders across the state. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced $250 million in federal grant funding to law enforcement officials and first responders across the state. The bill will help first responders rebuild after the pandemic, and fight violent crime across the state. A porti...

MADISON – Gov. Tony Evers signed legislation Monday to improve the processing of evidence of sexual assaults. The approval of the two bipartisan measures came after years of debate over how law enforcement has handled such evidence, some of which had been left untested for years. "Victims and survivors of sexual assault have already gone through the unimaginable, and their path to justice sho...

When we think about many Americans’ current dislike of law and law enforcement, we would do well to consider how history’s great lawgivers created respect for it. Going back to one of the earliest known lawgivers, we find that Urukagina in Mesopotamia emphasized the need to write human rights into law, so that all could see the law’s helpfulness. Moses of Israel wrote a law with an emphasis o...