In order for the Wabanaki to achieve sovereignty, a two-thirds vote of approval in each house of the Legislature is needed to enable the Legislature to override the governor’s expected veto.

Fifty-five years ago, before Roe v. Wade, I was a senior at then nearly all-male Massachusetts Institute of Technology, lucky enough to have a girlfriend at Wellesley College. One day before dinner we and four or five gals were sitting in a Wellesley dorm room discussing the issues of the day when a telephone rang. […]