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Massachusetts Home Sales Down Sharply In 2022

By Chris Lisinski State House News Service

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New England Patriots Are Underdogs In Their Next Game

If you believe the oddsmakers, the New England Patriots will not win their next football game. The Patriots are underdogs in their Christmas Eve matchup at home against the Cincinnati Bengals (1 p.m. start time). DraftKings set its spread to have the Bengals as the three-point favorite in the

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Brockton Rox Sign First-Ever Female Player

The Brockton Rox will make history next season. The Rox, a summer collegiate baseball league team that competes in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League, signed its first-ever female player this week for the 2023 season:  Marika Lyszczyk, a senior at Sonoma State University (NCAA Division 2 school in Rohnert Park,

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Ayanna Pressley Says Housing Is A Human Right

U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Hyde Park) views housing as a human right. Pressley called for increased investments to be made in housing on social media this week, calling it a human right.

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Elon Musk Blasts Elizabeth Warren

Tesla and Twitter chief executive officer Elon Musk is no fan of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Cambridge). The uberwealthy businessman ripped Warren in response to a letter that Warren wrote to Tesla's board asking if investors have been harmed by Musk's tenure as Twitter'

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Massachusetts Has Already Spoken: We Don’t Want Physician-Assisted Suicide

Note: If you or someone you know is in a crisis and needs help, call 911 for emergency services or call the 24-hour 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline hotline at 988 to be connected to a trained counselor at a suicide crisis center near you. Additionally, you can also call

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Massachusetts Court Decision On Assisted Suicide Respects Liberty and Life

We congratulate the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for resisting the temptation to invent a previously unknown constitutional right to kill yourself with help from a doctor. As the court notes in its opinion in Kligler vs. Healey this week, physician-assisted suicide belongs to the political process – to state legislators and

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Assisted Suicide Not A Constitutional Right In Massachusetts, State Supreme Judicial Court Decides

Assisted suicide is not a right under the Massachusetts Constitution, the state's Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. "Although we recognize the paramount importance and profound significance of all end-of-life decisions, after careful consideration, we conclude that the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights does not reach so far as