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Maura Healey To Cut $375 Million From Current Massachusetts State Budget, Because Revenue Increases Aren’t Keeping Up With Increased Spending

By Colin A. Young State House News Service Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and her budget team hit the reset button Monday, announcing a plan to cut $375 million from the current year's budget amid flagging tax collections, to downgrade the amount of tax revenue expected this budget year

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Stand-Up Comedian Custodian Announces Worcester Public Schools Snow Day

A school custodian who is also a standup comedian delivered a video announcement of no-school in Worcester because of snow. Jimmy Cash, who identified himself as "Worcester Public Schools' chief meteorologist" in the video, said snowblowers, shovels, "even a bunch of paper towels" weren'

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‘No Labels’ Movement Gains Presidential Ballot Slot In Maine

No Labels will be on the ballot in Maine this year if it decides to run a presidential candidate. The centrist political movement wants to run a unity presidential ticket that features both a moderate Republican and Democrat in opposition to both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

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Liz Cheney Urges New Hampshire Republicans To Oppose Trump

Former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) does not want to see former President Donald Trump win his party's nomination in the 2024 presidential primary. Cheney made that clear while speaking at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire this past weekend.

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Elizabeth Warren Calls For Conditions On Aid To Israel

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Cambridge) wants to put conditions on future foreign aid to Israel. Warren expressed her dismay with the Likud government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu on X (formerly known as Twitter) and said the United States should try to end the war between Israel and Hamas.

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Non-Binary Student Population Up 392 Percent In Four Years In Massachusetts Public Schools

Each school year, more Massachusetts public school students are identifying as non-binary. Since the start of the 2019-2020 school year, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's public school enrollment data has broken down gender into three categories: male, female, and non-binary. In this instance, "non-binary&

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Boston City Councilor Asked To Retake Oath of Office

Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson appears to have remained silent during her oath of office on Monday, January 1. After a video circulated on X (formerly Twitter) of the inauguration, council president Ruthzee Louijeune and the city's law department are asking her to take it again. After

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More Teaching Assistants Needed For Taylor Swift Course At Harvard

A new Harvard course called "Taylor Swift and Her World" is so popular that its professor is publicly calling for more teaching assistants. "We will learn how to think about illicit affairs, and hoaxes, champagne problems and incomplete closure," the course description says.