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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.

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Each New England State Met Joe Biden’s Coronavirus Vaccination Goal Well Ahead Of Time

President Joe Biden set a goal when it comes to the coronavirus vaccine, and each of the six New England states have met it. Biden's goal was that 70 percent of adults receive at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine by July 4, 2021. As WCAX reported

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MassHealth Taking Up Almost 40 Percent of Proposed State Budget

What's the biggest expense in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts's proposed state budget? MassHealth.

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Marshfield Fair To Take Place This Year

The Marshfield Fair will be back this year, organizers say. The fair normally takes place in August.  The fair's board of directors voted this week to hold it once again this year, the Marshfield Fair announced on its Facebook page. This comes after the board cancelled the fair