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Bear Spotted In Hanson, Massachusetts

While many people might think of bears as an animal that lives in northern New England, at least one bear was spotted south of Boston in Plymouth County over the weekend. The Hanson Police Department reported on Facebook on Sunday that a bear had once again been spotted in town.

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Average Gas Price Exceeds $3 Per Gallon In Two New England States

The average price of gas has hit more than $3.00 per gallon in the United States, including a few New England states. The average price nationwide is $3.045 per gallon — and while it's still below $3.00 per gallon in Massachusetts ($2.921), two New England

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Green-Rainbow Party Interested In Running A Candidate For State Auditor Again

What does the Green-Rainbow Party have planned for 2022? Could the left-wing, pro-environment, and socially progressive party run some candidates for statewide office? Will the party run a candidate for state auditor with Democrat Suzanne Bump announcing that she won't seek a fourth term?

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Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Want Compromise With Republicans — Even As He Hints 2022 May Be A GOP Year

U.S. Senator  Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) wants the government to do a lot of things, but he doesn't want to compromise with the Republican Party to make it happen. Sanders made that clear in a recent op-ed he wrote for CNN. He said he wants to see bills

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Mitt Romney Blasts Republicans and Democrats In JFK Library Award Speech

Former Massachusetts governor and current U.S. senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) accepted his Profile in Courage award from the John F. Kennedy Library this week. Romney took a shot at some of his fellow Republicans as well as some Democrats during his virtual speech.

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Massachusetts News Reporters Donate To Democratic Politicians At The State Level, Too 

It turns out that people who work in news also make political contributions in state elections — to Democrats. NewBostonPost has previously covered how members of the mainstream media in Massachusetts make political donations, and how they skew heavily to the Democratic side — including in the 2021 U.S. Senate runoff

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Ireland Calling? Abortion Advocate Claire Cronin Mum As Colleagues Congratulate Her On Possible Appointment

Could Massachusetts state Representative Claire Cronin (D-Easton) be the next U.S. ambassador to Ireland? Cronin, the prime mover in the state Legislature of the ROE Act abortion expansion bill last year, is not saying, although some fellow state legislators are congratulating her on a report that says she'

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More Than 3,000 Fully Vaccinated Bay Staters Have Gotten COVID-19

A few thousand fully vaccinated Bay Staters have still gotten COVID-19. As of May 17, there had been 3,083 confirmed breakthrough cases of the virus in the state, according to MassLive. That means that 0.12 percent of fully vaccinated people had gotten the virus.