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Boston Globe Union Planning Walkout Tuesday, August 6
A union that represents about 300 reporters, editors, and photographers as well as business-side employees of The Boston Globe is planning…
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Rhode Island City Unveils Sculpture Celebrating Campaign Stop by Abraham Lincoln
City officials in Woonsocket, Rhode Island have unveiled a 7-foot-tall sculpture commemorating a campaign stop by Abraham Lincoln in 1860.…
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Divided Cape Board Issues Sharks-and-Seals Proclamation
The Barnstable County Commissioners have declared August 2019 to be Cape Cod Gray Seal and Great White Shark Awareness Month. The commissioners…
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Ranked-Choice Voting Supporters Planning To Try Ballot Question in 2020
Supporters of ranked-choice voting plan to try to get a referendum on the 2020 Massachusetts general election ballot. "While we…
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Zero Vetoes: Fiscal Conservatives Hit Charlie Baker for Rubber-Stamping Massachusetts Legislature’s Budget
Some fiscal conservatives are criticizing Governor Charlie Baker for signing an approximately $43.3 billion budget approved by the Massachusetts Legislature without…
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Big Y Banishing Plastic Bags
Springfield-based supermarket chain Big Y is planning to eliminate thin-film plastic bags from all its approximately 80 stores in Massachusetts…
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State Legislators To Local Newspapers: We’re From the Government and We’re Here To Help
A bill before the Massachusetts Legislature would establish a legislative commission to study communities "underserved by local journalism" and "…
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Man Hides Ukulele in Shorts, Runs Out of Store
Police in Manchester, New Hampshire are looking for a man who they say stuffed a ukulele down his shorts and then ran…
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Judge Closes Arraignment To Public, Fails To Have Proceeding Recorded
A Massachusetts district court judge barred reporters from the arraignment of a murder suspect in a hospital room, did not make himself…
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Fishermen Are At Heart of Delay in Vineyard Wind Project
Concerns about the effect ocean wind turbines may have on fishing are holding up federal approval of a proposed wind farm south…
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Republican Former Naval Reserves Officer Running Against Richard Neal for Congress
A 30-year-old Republican former Naval Reserves officer is planning to challenge U.S. Representative Richard Neal for his western Massachusetts…
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Security Cameras in Lawrence Won’t Invade Privacy, City Officials Say
Dozens of security cameras installed earlier this year in the high-crime city of Lawrence will be used to assist police in…
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Man Moves To Fall River From Pennsylvania To Help Save Venerable Shrine
A middle-aged man who hadn't lived in Fall River since childhood recently moved back from Pennsylvania so he could…
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Sean Brady: Anti-Trump Economics Professor Needs Schooling on Chinese Theft of American Intellectual Property
A New York City high-finance banker says President Donald Trump might actually be understating the extent of theft of U.S.…
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Cape County Commissioners May Declare August Seal-and-Shark Awareness Month
Barnstable County Commissioners worried about shark attacks this summer are going to consider declaring August "Cape Cod Seal and Shark Public…
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Ayanna Pressley Introduces Bill To Abolish Federal Death Penalty
U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Dorchester) has filed a bill that would abolish the federal death penalty for current and future…
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Connecticut Driver’s License Helps Mexican Illegal Immigrant Smuggle In Seven Other Illegals, Feds Say
A Mexican illegal immigrant with a valid Connecticut driver's license helped smuggled seven other Mexicans into Maine from Canada this…
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Signs at University of Maine Now Bilingual — English and Penobscot
The University of Maine's flagship campus in Orono now has signs in both English and Penobscot – including the indigenous words…
