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Housing Benefits Administrator Will Pay $109,000 In Fraud Case, Massachusetts Inspector General Says

By Michael P. Norton State House News Service

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Maine Senate Votes To Ban Flavored Tobacco

The Maine Senate voted to ban flavored tobacco this week. The state Senate voted 18-16 in favor of the bill (LD 1215), largely along party lines on Wednesday, June 21. Most Democrats supported the proposal, while every Republican rejected it.

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Former Candidate for Governor of Massachusetts Named President of Curry College

Curry College has a new president. Former Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Jay Gonzalez, currently a partner at Hinckley Allen law firm, will take over as Curry's president on July 31.

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Massachusetts Superintendents Call For Permanent Free Meals

More than 80 Massachusetts superintendents are calling for making free school meals permanent.  The superintendents sent a letter to lawmakers requesting that $160 million from the so-called millionaire's tax go towards the endeavor.

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Left Going Too Far Over Graphic Gender-Identity Book and Enabling Gender Transitioning Behind Parents’ Back, Liberal Columnist Says

Left-wingers demanding extreme positions and ostracizing those who don't agree are driving ordinary people to align with social conservatives, a liberal columnist for The Boston Globe says. Kat Rosenfield, a novelist, uses a conflict over including the book Gender Queer in school libraries as an example.

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Prices Still High For Limited Inventory of Massachusetts Houses For Sale

By Chris Lisinski State House News Service

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Maura Healey Visiting Ireland Next Week; Will Mark 30th Anniversary of De-Criminalizing Same-Sex Sex Acts

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey is traveling to Ireland next week. Healey will meet with the taoiseach (or prime minister), Leo Varadkar;  foreign affairs minister Tánaiste Micheál Martin, Senate chairman Cathaoirleach Jerry Buttimer, and the Irish parliament's LGBTQI+ caucus.

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Rhode Island Governor Signs Bill Making Juneteenth A State Holiday

Juneteenth will be a state holiday in Rhode Island next year. Governor Dan McKee, a Democrat, signed a bill (S.444) into law on Monday making Juneteenth a state holiday beginning next year.