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Nantucket To Decide If Women Can Go Topless At Beaches Next Year

Should women be able to go topless at beaches in Nantucket? The island's voters will decide that at its annual town meeting next year. It's one of 31 proposals island residents are set to consider at the meeting. The deadline to submit proposals was November 15;

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Ayanna Pressley Called Kyle Rittenhouse A ‘White Supremacist Domestic Terrorist’ Last Year

Who is Kyle Rittenhouse? The 18-year-old Illinois resident is a free man after a Wisconsin jury found him not guilty Friday on all charges after shooting three people (killing two) in self-defense at a Black Lives Matter riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin in August 2020.

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Connecticut Governor: Two Doses of Coronavirus Vaccine Isn’t Fully Vaccinated

Are you fully vaccinated against coronavirus? Maybe not anymore, according to Connecticut's Democratic governor, Ned Lamont.

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Charlie Baker Leads Maura Healey In Hypothetical Race For Governor of Massachusetts

If Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker were to run for re-election and his opponent on the other side of the aisle were current attorney general Maura Healey, Baker would have the advantage. A new poll from UMass Amherst shows that Baker holds a 33-27 edge over Healey in a hypothetical matchup;

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Charlie Baker Backs Off Transportation and Climate Initiative Carbon Fee on Fuel

By Chris Lisinski State House News Service

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Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office Unsure If Polyamory Is Legal In Massachusetts

It's not yet clear if Adam, Eve, and Steve will be able to make it official in towns across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey's office is trying to decide whether or not a domestic partnership bylaw from the town of Arlington that

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Connecticut Backs Off Climate-Change Carbon-Fee On Fuel, Leaving Massachusetts Lonelier

Connecticut's Democratic governor,Ned Lamont, no longer has an interest in joining the Transportation and Climate Initiative that would implement a fee on fuel in order to try to lessen climate change. That means that Massachusetts and Rhode Island are now the only states committed to entering the

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Charlie Baker Says The Federal Government Must Do More For Haitian Immigrants

By Matt Murphy State House News Service