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Valley Voices 4/29/17

WHMP’s Stephanie Slysz with an update on the Massachusetts Pregnant Worker’s Fairness Act with one author of the legislation, Laura Sylvester, who worked with the Hadley non-profit MotherWoman to get the bill where it is now…about to be passed by the legislature.

WHMP’s Stephanie Slysz on the news/events of the week: Easthampton High School hate, and the DPU hearing on Eversource’s request for a rate hike.

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