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Somerville's board of health has issued a mask mandate in all indoor public settings regardless of vaccination status this week. It went into effect on Friday, August 20. City officials are threatening a $300 fine, as WCVB Channel 5 in Boston reports.
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The school year is beginning, but with fewer Catholic schools. Hundreds closed last year in the United States. Maybe more should shut their doors, according to one popular American bishop.
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In the future, churches won't have to shut down amid public health emergencies in New Hampshire. New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, a Republican, signed a bill (H.542) into law last week that will prevent state and local governments from prohibiting in-person church services in the future.
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There will soon be 23 Democrats and 13 Republicans in Connecticut's state Senate. The Connecticut Democratic Party lost its two-thirds supermajority in the Senate in a special election held on Tuesday, August 17.
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By Matt Murphy State House News Service
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Who does Massachusetts lieutenant governor Karyn Polito want to see elected to public office in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts? Women who support legal abortion and want to expand abortion access in the Commonwealth, apparently.
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Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker still has no interest in implementing a mask mandate. The media asked Baker, a Republican, about the matter on Monday, August 16, and he said his opinion hasn't changed. He said he feels that Massachusetts is in a decent spot and that cities and
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So-called single-use plastics will largely be a thing of the past in Falmouth on Cape Cod starting September 1, 2021. The ban was approved at a September 2020 Town Meeting in Falmouth, but the town gave itself time for it to go into effect. Soon, non-carbonated, unflavored drinking water sold
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