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By Chris Lisinski, Colin A. Young and Sam Doran | Dec 13, 2022
Departing Reps, Senators Deliver Traditional Farewell Remarks
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By Greater Boston Staff | Sep 28, 2022
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Massachusetts to take a quantum leap or two on some of the things that voters have been telling Beacon Hill for a long time that they want to see us do,” Chang-Díaz said.
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By Dan Adams | Aug 01, 2022
Long-awaited measure includes crackdown on local fees, funding for equity
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By Colin A. Young | Aug 01, 2022
Tackles Equity, Host Community Agreements, Cannabis Cafes
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By Simón Rios and Todd Wallack | Jul 30, 2022
"It’s going to be a game changer," Chang-Díaz said. "I know it's going to take time for the MCAD to fill the staffing shortages that they've been experiencing in recent years, but this is a huge step forward."
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By Simón Rios and Todd Wallack | Jul 05, 2022
State Sen. Sonia Chang-Díaz recently sponsored a budget amendment to increase the MCAD's funding by nearly two-thirds.
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By Samantha Gross | May 05, 2022
“It has been a long, long road for this bill,” Sen Chang-Díaz said. “This bill means trust and dignity for immigrants in our state who lack federal status.”
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By Chris Lisinski | May 05, 2022
“Without a license, a routine traffic stop can have a lasting and traumatic set of repercussions: arrest, ICE detention, deportation. It can tear families apart, and that is a heavy, heavy burden to carry."
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By Dan Adams | Apr 07, 2022
Cannabis cafes, crackdown on local fees among reforms headed to House
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By Chris Burrell | Feb 08, 2022
“The numbers here are lackluster, to put it lightly,” said state Sen. Sonia Chang-Díaz, head of the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Racial Equity. “But I think that equally, if not of greater concern, is the lack of transparency."
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By Dan Adams | Jan 30, 2022
“The gap between the law’s stated commitment to equity and the on-the-ground reality of the industry shows just how much work we have left to do,” said Senator Sonia Chang-Díaz, the other co-chair of the cannabis committee.
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By Stephanie Ebbert | Nov 24, 2021
“We need to come to terms with the fact that we are free-riding on the backs of women,” said state Senator Sonia Chang-Díaz, a Boston Democrat.
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By Katie Lannan | Oct 18, 2021
A coalition of advocacy groups plus a handful of lawmakers on Monday released a scorecard they’ll use to measure whether the American Rescue Plan Act spending plans prioritize racial justice.
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By Anna Lamb | Sep 15, 2021
Activists and elected officials marched the three miles in support of a moratorium on construction of a new women’s prison in Norfolk.
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By Mark Arsenault | Aug 16, 2021
"Across the Commonwealth, far too many people — and let’s be real: it’s disproportionately Black and brown people — are incarcerated in toxic conditions that place their health, safety, and human dignity, and the safety of the communities to which they will return, at risk," said Sonia Chang-Díaz.
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By Nik DeCosta-Klipa, Boston.com | Jul 28, 2021
More local leaders are pressuring Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration to resume reporting the age, race, and sex of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Massachusetts, as concerns about the impact of the Delta variant heighten.
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By Morgan C. Mullings | Jun 02, 2021
Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz is advancing legislation that would reinvest savings stemming from criminal justice reforms back into communities.
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By Sharman Sacchetti | May 25, 2021
The new law, among other changes, set up a commission to certify and decertify police officers, banned the use of chokeholds by police and limited the use of no-knock warrants.
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By Benjamin Kail | May 03, 2021
State Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz said that unemployment in Roxbury is “routinely double the unemployment rate in the rest of our commonwealth.”
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By Greater Boston Staff | Feb 26, 2021
State Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz, D-Suffolk, and Atyia Martin, former chief resiliency officer for Boston, joined Jim Braude to talk about the key takeaways from the COVID Oversight Hearing.