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Sheltering Foreign Migrants Costing Massachusetts $900 Million-Plus A Year

Providing emergency shelters and other services for migrants coming into the country without a place to stay will cost the Massachusetts state government more than $900 million this fiscal year and a similar amount next fiscal year, state officials said. The state was housing 3,516 families who entered the

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North Shore Judge Picked Public School For Child Over Religious School As Default In Parents’ Dispute

A Massachusetts judge chose a public school for a child as a default over a religious school in a dispute between the child's estranged parents. That decision bothered at least two of the three members of the Massachusetts Appeals Court panel who heard the case Tuesday, who noted

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Fewer Breaking Into Massachusetts Home Market As Prices Soar

By Colin A. Young State House News Service

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Bernie Sanders Minimum Wage Hike Proposal Would Reduce Poverty and Jobs, Congressional Budget Office Says

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has a plan that would lift several hundred thousand people out of poverty, while cutting far more jobs altogether. The senator wants to the United States to gradually increase its federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $17 an hour by 2029.

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Chris Sununu Says Trump Would Win Low-Turnout New Hampshire Primary

If only staunch Republicans vote in the 2024 New Hampshire GOP presidential primary, then former President Donald Trump will have no problem winning it, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu said. Sununu, who supports former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, thinks his preferred candidate will need a high-turnout race to stand

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Mitt Romney Says His Presidential Endorsement Would Be The ‘Kiss of Death’ For A Candidate

Who does U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) support in the 2024 Republican presidential primary? He won't say, and he doesn't plan on making a public endorsement.

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Endowments, Tax Advantages, and Grants Are Fair Game If Colleges ‘Discriminate Against Conservatives, Christians, Jews’ and ‘Attack Free Speech,’ Trump Says

Former President Donald Trump says if he's elected in 2024 he'll go after the endowments, tax advantages, and grants of colleges and universities if they discriminate against certain segments of society or undermine free speech on their campuses. Trump said certain well-known universities – he called out

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Transgender Brookline High Track Runner Wins Girls’ 55-Meter Dash Event At Conference Meet

A male high school indoor track and field runner won an event at a girls' meet in Boston last week. Brookline High senior Chloe Barnes, who identifies as transgender, came in first place in the opening Bay State Conference meet of the season. It took place on Thursday, December