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Supporters of Ranked Choice Voting in Massachusetts have announced honorary campaign co-chairmen that include two former governors, a former lieutenant governor, a former U.S. Treasury secretary, a sports team owner, the current president of the Boston branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and a
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Two days before the formal legislative period was set to expire, Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo introduced a measure that could extend it until the end of the year – which would also extend the period to pass left-of-center legislation. Conservatives who thought they were in the clear for 2020 on
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Stoneham resident Caroline Colarusso is no stranger to elected politics. The 55-year-old has served on the Stoneham Board of Selectmen since 2015 and has run for state representative in the 31st Middlesex House District three times (2014, 2016, 2018), earning as much as 48.6 percent of the vote in
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More than 80 Massachusetts pastors have announced opposition to an assisted suicide bill on Beacon Hill, hoping to stop it from passing before the current formal portion of the current legislative session is scheduled to run out at the end of the week. The pastors, nearly three quarters of whom
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School will start at least two weeks later than usual in Vermont this year. Governor Phil Scott plans to sign an executive order later this week stating that schools will not be going back to school until at least Tuesday, September 8, providing school districts extra time to make the
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The Cambridge City Council took a step this week towards recognizing three-or-more multi-partner domestic relationships. Six of the nine members of the city council voted on Monday, July 27 in favor of advancing a pro-polyamory measure that would give the same domestic partnership benefits to relationships of more than two
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It's hard to pinpoint any disagreements on policy between the two Democratic candidates in the U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts, but the incumbent has landed a major endorsement from organized labor. U.S. Senator Ed Markey, who is being primaried by U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy
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A woman in Maine was killed by a shark attack on Monday. She was swimming off the coast of Bailey Island around 3:30 p.m. when the attack happened. Two kayakers attempted to help her back to the shore but when an ambulance arrived, she was pronounced dead, as
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