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Massachusetts Prison Inmates To Receive Coronavirus Vaccine Soon

When will prisoners receive the coronavirus vaccine in Massachusetts? Sooner than most of the general public, as CBS Boston reports.

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Carbon Fee on Fuel Would Cost Massachusetts Households Hundreds of Dollars a Year, New Study Says

The Massachusetts economy took a hit as a result of government restrictions on businesses amid the coronavirus pandemic. Would enacting the Transportation & Climate Initiative carbon fee on fuel make it worse?

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Democrats For Life of America Condemns Two Democratic State Reps For ROE Act Votes

Two members of the Massachusetts Legislature that Democrats For Life previously supported have been condemned by the organization for supporting an abortion expansion bill. Democrats For Life of America, an organization that supports pro-life Democrats and what it calls "a broad spectrum of life ethics," opposes abortion expansion

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MassGOP Chairman Jim Lyons Condemns Republican State Rep’s Support for Abortion Bill

The Massachusetts Republican Party does not support the abortion expansion bill on Beacon Hill, but one GOP state representative does. The party vigorously opposes the bill. The Massachusetts Republican Party chairman Jim Lyons calls it an infanticide bill. Dictionary.com's three definitions of infanticide are: "the act

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Massachusetts Senate Rejects Governor’s Abortion Bill Changes on Parental Consent

Massachusetts Republican Governor Charlie Baker wanted to make a change to the abortion expansion bill, but the Massachusetts Senate rejected it. Baker, although a supporter of legal abortion, does not support the abortion bill as written, arguing that 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds should continue to have to get permission from a

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Coronavirus Cases Projected To Decline In Coming Months In Massachusetts

Experts expect that the coronavirus pandemic in Massachusetts will get worse before it gets better, but that improvement could be not that far away. A University of Massachusetts at Amherst coronavirus projection model says that new cases will hit 41,954 in Massachusetts in the week of January 2, 2021

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Marty Walsh Applauds Joe Biden Nominating Pete Buttigieg For Cabinet Position

Joe Biden wants Mayor Pete to be his Secretary of Transportation. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh also supports the move.

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Robert DeLeo Spokesman (Somewhat) Denies Mister Speaker Is Leaving Massachusetts House

Is Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo leaving his post for a job at Northeastern University? Some media outlets reported it, but the Winthrop Democrat's office is refusing to confirm it.