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There is no doubt that the Earth's temperature is rising. Temperatures measured on land and at sea since 1880 show that the Earth's globally averaged surface temperature in 2016 was 0.94 degrees Celsius (1.69 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the 20thcentury average. This finding comes
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There may be a good reason for not prosecuting the naked Harvard College student who took illegal drugs, took off his clothes in the median of a busy street, threw them at a woman, refused to cooperate with cops who showed up, grappled with cops for an extended time on
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At the time he was elected president of the Massachusetts Senate, Stan Rosenberg had a long-term committed relationship with a man 38 years younger whom he believed to be mentally ill and addicted to alcohol and who had a tendency to text pornographic images of men and make sexually offensive
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Later today a 32-year-old police officer whose friends and colleagues describe as thoughtful and honorable will have a funeral Mass in Yarmouth because a 29-year-old man with 125 entries on his rap sheet shot him in the head because he had violated probation. Think about that. When probation was invented
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Arrests are ugly. When they include physical confrontation, they're uglier. But it's no good to just say you disagree with what Cambridge cops did the other night when confronted with an agitated naked man in a street. You must also say what you would have done
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What we haven't heard in any of the pronouncements on the various Massachusetts State Police scandals is the one thing that's vital: A full and public account of what happened.
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Is there anything odder than The Boston Globe criticizing a Republican candidate for not being Republican enough? That's where Geoff Diehl finds himself today. The Republican state representative from Whitman running for U.S. Senate was outed Wednesday as having been a registered Democrat from 1996 through at
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State officials need to fix whatever led to the Massachusetts State Police scandals TrooperGate and LeighaGate – and do it publicly. The forced retirements of the two top State Police officials in November and of two more high-ranking officers this week are not enough.