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Planned high-voltage cables bringing electricity from future wind turbines in the Atlantic Ocean shouldn't be put under public beaches and neighborhood streets on the south side of Cape Cod, a newspaper columnist says. The columnist says he is worried about electromagnetic radiation and leaks.
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By Colin A. Young State House News Service
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Thomas Koch won re-election as mayor of Quincy by 10 points Tuesday night. Koch, a former Democrat who left the party over abortion, turned away a challenge from a city councilor who made abortion an issue in the campaign.
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State Auditor Diana DiZoglio says she is within striking distance of the number of signatures she needs to bring a ballot question asking voters to give her explicit authority to audit the Massachusetts Legislature. DiZoglio told State House News Service on Monday, November 6 that she has about 50,000
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Town officials in Truro are scrutinizing recent voter registrations of property owners in the Cape Cod town who also live elsewhere, holding hearings to determine if the registrations are valid. A group called the Truro Part-time Resident Taxpayers Association has encouraged people who own summer homes in the town to
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After a slapshot from a boy injured one of her teammates, a captain of the Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School field hockey team wrote a letter to the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association calling for change. In its 2-1 loss to Swampscott in the MIAA Division 3 Round of 32 matchup against
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Democrats in the Massachusetts House of Representatives are planning to pass a $250 million increase for the state's emergency shelter system to house more migrants who have entered the country without official status. The money would be part of a $2.74 billion supplemental budget bill for the
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Massachusetts Department of Revenue commissioner Geoffrey Snyder has announced that state government revenue collections for October 2023 totaled $2.558 billion, which is $196 million (or 8.3 percent) more than actual collections in October 2022. However, the October 2023 figure is $186 million (or 6.8 percent) below the
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