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Charlie Baker Campaign Raised Less Than $4,000 In May 2021
Still think Charlie's running for re-election? Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker had another limited month in terms of fund raising in May.
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Connecticut Backs Out Of Transportation Climate Initiative
And then there were two states remaining. Connecticut no longer wants to be a part of the cap-and-trade Transportation and Climate Initiative, leaving Massachusetts and Rhode Island as the only remaining states that are a part of the compact planning to charge a carbon fee on fuel providers. Washington D.
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Little Appetite For Rent Control Among Candidates for Mayor of Boston
Is rent control the solution to the lack of affordable housing in the city of Boston? Not really, the city's mayoral candidates say.
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Six Wrong Things About the Massachusetts GOP Flap Over Jim Lyons and Same-Sex-Couple Adoption
Massachusetts Republicans lost control of the state House of Representatives in 1948 because they managed to get themselves seen as taking an anti-Catholic position on birth control. Now, many Republicans in the state are demanding that a Catholic chairman of the party disavow Catholic teaching about marriage and children or
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Jim Lyons Rejects Republican ‘Cancel Culture,’ Refuses To Call On GOP State Committee Member To Resign
Republican members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives gave party chairman Jim Lyons an ultimatum: condemn a conservative state GOP committee member for expressing a conservative point of view or resign. Lyons addressed the topic in a statement late Friday night, acknowledging the clamor but rejecting what he called "
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State Rep Who Said There’s A ‘Special Place In Hell’ For Mitt Romney May Run For Lieutenant Governor
Abortion-supporting state Representative Tami Gouveia (D-Acton), who is no fan of U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah), may end up running to be lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. The second-term Democrat has been calling her colleagues in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in recent days telling them she plans to run
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Full Text of Statement By Jim Lyons On State GOP Committee Member’s Criticism Of Same-Sex-Couple’s Adoption of Children
Editor's Note: Jim Lyons, the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, sent out a written statement through the party late Friday, June 4, 2021 addressing calls for a member of the Massachusetts State Republican Committee to resign over email messages she sent expressing disapproval of the adoption of
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Massachusetts Plans To Close Down Mass-Vaccination Sites In Coming Weeks
Mass-coronavirus-vaccination sites will soon be a thing of the past in Massachusetts. Over the next five weeks, the state plans to close down some of its bigger vaccination sites, switching to community-based vaccination clinics instead, as WCVB reports.
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