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Massachusetts

Marijuana legalization in Colorado may be hurting poor

BOSTON – Reports about the disproportionate impact of the legal marijuana industry on minority and low-income neighborhoods and families deserve a closer look, according to Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins, who so far has focused his opposition to the legalization ballot question on its health impacts. A recent Politico Magazine cover

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The 2016 election and ‘The Fable of the Bees’

The media are missing the point when they attribute the Trump and Sanders phenomena to unhappiness with the "establishment." As for Trump, there is no Republican "establishment" – no clique of insiders who have let down their supporters by refusing to dis-establish the Obama agenda. There are

Democrats

U.S. Rep. Tsongas to face new challenge from GOP’s Wofford

BOSTON – Haverhill Republican Ann Wofford has pulled nomination papers to challenge incumbent U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas, a Lowell Democrat, in the third congressional district this fall, according to the secretary of state's office. The campaign would mark Wofford's second attempt at knocking off Tsongas. The

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Clinton: The money to help Americans pay their bills ‘should come from those who have it’

(CNSNews.com) – "We have to change the tax system so that it is fairer," Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday. To her, that means taking more money from the rich and spending it on other people's college tuition, child care, and paid family leave. "There are

Massachusetts

Kennedy seeks third term in Congress

BOSTON – Joseph P. Kennedy III, the last of his storied family to serve in Congress, is running for a third term. The Brookline Democrat confirmed Thursday his intentions to seek a third term in the U.S. House of Representatives, in an interview with the Attleboro Sun Chronicle.

Donald Trump

Trump dumps on Hillary using Cosby, Weiner and Bill

Donald Trump threw another social media haymaker at Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on Thursday, this time in the form of a brief video posted on Instagram that features audio of Clinton commenting on women's rights set to a series of photos depicting several newsworthy womanizers, including her husband.

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Trump attacks Union Leader publisher over editorial

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — Donald Trump took aim at the publisher of New Hampshire's largest newspaper, the Union Leader, Monday night, making it the latest target of the Republican presidential candidate's attacks against the news media. Its offense? A front-page editorial Monday by publisher Joseph McQuaid

Democrats

Webb stirs speculation over an independent presidential bid

WASHINGTON – A flurry of social media posts put up over the Christmas weekend by Jim Webb, the former senator from Virginia who pulled out of the Democratic presidential primary race in October, led to speculation that he will re-enter the 2016 election as an independent candidate for the White House.