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By Alison Kuznitz State House News Service Scrapping the tipped-wage structure for waiters and bartenders could devastate the restaurant industry in Massachusetts, a ballot question opponent warned Monday, while a supporter outlined the potential financial relief for hospitality workers.
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Governor Maura Healey has declared October as "Massachusetts Cranberry Month" to highlight just how important the crop is to the state. Officials from the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources, local representatives, and cranberry farmers gathered at the Mayflower Cranberries Bog in Plympton to promote the purchase of locally
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A Hanson, Massachusetts resident has been asked to stop projecting a pro-Trump political message onto the town's municipal water tower or face escalating fines. The incident, which involves a "Trump 2024" campaign logo being projected onto a water tower in town, triggered a fast response from
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Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has thrown her support behind Question 5 in Massachusetts, which would raise the state's tipped minimum wage to match the standard minimum wage by 2029 and eventually allow pooling of tips among restaurant workers. The former secretary of state and first lady
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Ban private gun ownership? One Massachusetts state representative candidate says he sympathizes with that cause.
boys in girls sports
A boy won a girls' gymnastics state championship in Massachusetts this year. Mansfield High School senior Andrew Znoj won the vault event at the Massachusetts High School Gymnastics Coaches State Individuals meet; he was a junior at the time.
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Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell has filed a lawsuit against TikTok Inc., claiming that the social media platform is intentionally designed to be addictive and harmful to young users and that the company misleads the public about its safety measures. The lawsuit, which names as defendants TikTok Inc. and its
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Massachusetts Secretary of Education Patrick Tutwiler says he is a firm no vote on Question 2. Supporters of the ballot question seek to eliminate the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (widely known as MCAS) as a graduation requirement for high school students in math, science, and English.
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