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Maura Healey Sees Vaccines as Mandatory for Correction Officers and State Police

By Katie Lannan State House News Service

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Shrewsbury Resident Orlando Silva Files To Run For Governor As A Democrat

Yet another Democrat has filed to run to be the next governor of Massachusetts. Shrewsbury resident Orlando Silva threw his name into the mix. Silva filed with the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance to run on Monday, March 22.

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Kim Janey Takes Over As Mayor of Boston

Marty Walsh is no longer the mayor of Boston. Walsh is now the U.S. Secretary of Labor, now that the U.S. Senate has confirmed his nomination. Recent Boston City Council president Kim Janey is now acting mayor of the city.

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Alex Morse Doubles His Salary By Trading Holyoke for Provincetown

Alex Morse is more than doubling his salary by leaving his job as mayor of Holyoke to become town manager of Provincetown. Morse, 32, is an openly homosexual progressive Democrat who unsuccessfully challenged U.S. Representative Richard Neal (D-Springfield) from the left in the state primary last year. He is

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Swampscott Cops Taking Looped Rope Around Tree Branch Very Seriously

Some say it's a foot swing. Some worry it may be a noose. Police in the North Shore town of Swampscott are taking no chances.

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Phil Scott Wants More Refugees In Vermont

Vermont's Republican governor wants more refugees to come to his state. Phil Scott plans to ask the U S. State Department to at least triple the total number of refugees that his state receives per year. Vermont is set to get 100 refugees this year — which Scott thinks

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Pro Sports Games Could Have Fans At Them In Massachusetts This Week

Fans are now welcome back at pro sporting events in Massachusetts. The Commonwealth entered the fourth phase of its reopening plan on Monday, March 22.

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Rayla Campbell Files To Run For Lieutenant Governor Of Massachusetts

It looks like Rayla Campbell may end up running for lieutenant governor rather than the U.S. House of Representatives next year. The conservative Republican from Randolph who ran as a write-in candidate against U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Dorchester) in the state's Seventh Congressional District last November