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Last week a storm ripped a historic herring smokehouse, the last of its kind in the United States, from its moorings in Lubec, Maine and across the water to Campobello Island in New Brunswick. That's a province in Canada. It's not far. Lubec includes West Quoddy
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Memo to Elizabeth Warren: Stop doing long live interviews. You can't handle them.
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The GOP tax cut is about two weeks old, and already we are seeing signs that it's working. Americans for Tax Reform has found 117 companies that have given more than a million employees bonuses because their corporate tax rates have gone from 35 percent to 21 percent.
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Congratulations to the Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates, a little-known regional government entity on Cape Cod that could easily have bowed to the pressure of illegalistas this week to snub the county sheriff's cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Instead, five of the assembly's 15 delegates, representing
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Are you going to some mass-celebration of New Year's Eve on Sunday night? If so, are you afraid of being sexually assaulted? Chances are that's not a major concern this weekend for either women or men going out to First Night revelries in Boston or other
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By his own admission, Jeff Flake couldn't win a Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Arizona next year. When anybody last cared enough to test his poll numbers, his approval rating in the state he represents was 30 percent. Yet there he was, on ABC's
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Update 12:14 p.m. Monday, December 18: Mayor Marty Walsh has signed the ordinance banning thin-film plastic bags. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh's hesitancy to sign an ordinance banning thin-film plastic bags from supermarkets and drug stores is a good sign.
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The recent failure of pro-life activists to get enough signatures to put an anti-abortion-funding ballot question on the 2020 statewide ballot is no failure at all. It's never fun to set a goal, work hard, and not make it. But neither is it always that important. In many