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Most Massachusetts Communities Handling Coronavirus Well and Schools Should Re-Open There, Governor Says

The vast majority of Massachusetts cities and towns have fewer than five confirmed cases of coronavirus, state officials said Tuesday. Two hundred forty-three of the 351 cities and towns have fewer than five cases. Another 75 have fewer than 4 cases per 100,000, a benchmark used nationally to measure

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Massachusetts Legislature Could Have More Self-Identified Socialists Next Year

How many socialists will there be in the Massachusetts Legislature next year? At least two, for sure, but there could be more.

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Vermont Sees Record Mail-In Voting

It's primary day in Vermont for statewide office races, but there have already been many votes cast. Vermont offered its voters the opportunity to cast votes by U.S. mail, and out of the roughly 490,000 registered voters in the state, more than 104,000 ballots had

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Sunrise Western Mass Coalition Retracts Alex Morse Endorsement

Sunrise Western Mass Coalition had endorsed Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse in his bid to unseat U.S. Representative Richard Neal in the Democratic primary for Massachusetts's First Congressional District this September because of Morse's left-wing views, but now that's no longer the case. The

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LGBTQ Victory Fund Stands With Alex Morse After Revelations of Sex With Undergraduates

A homosexuality-affirming political action committee is continuing its support for Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse after allegations that he used his contacts with College Democrats at two western Massachusetts colleges to pursue sexual hookups with undergraduates. University of Massachusetts Amherst officials say they are investigating the allegations, brought to light late

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Indonesian Immigrant Recalls the Time America Freed His Homeland

A Manchester-By-the-Sea resident recalled the first dropping of an atomic bomb as a time of joy for his occupied homeland. As a boy the man lived in a Japanese internment camp in Indonesia, which was then a colony of the Netherlands known as the Dutch East Indies. Japan invaded the

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Joe Kennedy III Says Decarbonization, Lessening Drug Use Key To Curbing Mass Migration

Do you think immigration and the environment intertwine in politics? U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III (D-Newton) does.

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New England Congressional Democrats Want To Amend Federal Tax Code So Massachusetts Can’t Tax Remote Workers in Other States

A few New England Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have proposed a bill to lower taxes for workers. U.S. Representative James Himes of Connecticut was joined by U.S. Representatives Jahana Hayes of Connecticut and Chris Pappas of New Hampshire in supporting a bill that would