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BOSTON — Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson fired back at Beacon Hill Democrats on Wednesday night, labeling them and specifically the sponsor of a leadership-backed bill passed along party lines hours before — one which bans corrections inmates from working across state lines — as "ignorant." "That's the
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BOSTON — In the end, Republicans' calls to further examine a bill that would bar county sheriffs from allowing prisoners to participate in building President Donald Trump's proposed Mexican border wall were no match for Beacon Hill Democrats' resistance. Massachusetts House Minority Leader Bradley Jones (R-North Reading)
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BOSTON — Student activists at Boston University, frustrated with being stonewalled by administrators as part of their quest to convince the school to divest from all endowment-related holdings in fossil fuels, appear to have adopted a new tactic. The focus, according to a recent Facebook post, will now be on convincing
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BOSTON — An immigration skeptic may have been silenced by hate-speech accusations in Franklin, but it appears her speaking engagement in West Roxbury later this week is still a go. Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, plans to appear at a panel discussion Wednesday at
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CAMBRIDGE — Researchers at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government recently completed an exhaustive study analyzing the media's coverage of President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office, and the findings officially confirm what has long been observed regarding the press's handling of
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The same stymied Yale University graduate student union that waged a "symbolic" hunger strike earlier this spring plans to stage a major protest during the elite Ivy League institution's graduation proceedings, where former Boston Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein will deliver the Class of 2017&
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"Chunks of flesh as big as scoops of ice cream." A series of bombs detonated at the height of Boston's biggest annual bash, Patriots Day, leaving behind "a river of blood."
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BOSTON — Fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas are as cutting-edge as buggy whips were a hundred years ago, a Democratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts said. Bob Massie told a crowd of anti-fossil fuel activists at a rally Tuesday that the state's Pension Reserves Investment Management