MASSterList: Of floods and avalanches | Hooker demoted? | Warren pushback

MASSterList: Of floods and avalanches | Hooker demoted? | Warren pushback

Across the state, students hold anti-gun walkouts   As Boston Magazine’s Spencer Buell notes, many of the planned student protests were foiled by school closures yesterday due to this week’s snow blizzard, but that didn’t stop hundreds of students from holding anti-gun rallies on Beacon Hill and across the state. Lisa Creamer at WBUR reports, with some accompanying videos, on rallies in Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline and Andover. Wicked Local takes a wider view, noting student protests in Rhode Island, New Hampshire and other states, as well as in Massachusetts. The Northboro-based Gun Owners’ Action League, not happy with the student walkouts, was asking members to take videos of the protests, the Globe reports.

Meanwhile, Boston Teachers Union chief outlines gun-control agenda   There are student protesters. Then there are the teachers (at least in Boston) behind them pushing for more gun-control measures. Jessica Tang, president of the Boston Teachers Union, outline her union’s own gun-control agenda at CommonWealth magazine. “It is time to stand up in truly organized opposition to the NRA and the gun lobby in every state, including in Massachusetts, and to demand action,” she writes. CommonWealth

Troopergate update (we think): Worcester DA shells out big bucks for law firm

Gintautas Dumcius at MassLive reports that Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. has shelled out more than $11,000 on a high-powered Boston law firm over the first two months of 2018. Hmmm. What possibly could have happened during that time period to warrant such as an expense? Ah, yes. Troopergate! Dumcius has the details. MassLive