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Sixteen of the 47 mayors in Massachusetts are calling on state legislators to approve the ROE Act abortion expansion bill, including Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. All are Democrats.
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Organizers of a rally in Boston inviting students to skip school and protest about climate change say they might draw 10,000 people Friday. The prediction stems in part from more than 7,000 responses to a Facebook notification, a spokesman for the group organizing the event told State House
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Massachusetts corrections officers are asking state legislators to pass a bill that would allow them to carry concealed firearms almost anywhere in the state the way most other types of law enforcement officers can. A federal law exempts current and retired "qualified law enforcement officers" from state laws
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U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley says she won't refer to Donald Trump as the president of the United States but rather as "the occupant of our White House." Pressley (D-Dorchester) made the comment during a press conference Monday afternoon responding to the president's criticism
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Massachusetts tax returns ought to give residents a way to donate money to the United Nations to encourage third-world countries to fight climate change, environmental activists told state legislators. The measure (Massachusetts Senate Bill 1602 and Massachusetts House Bill 2414) would establish a "Massachusetts Fund for Vulnerable Countries Most
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School officials want to provide girls at Lowell High School other kinds of contraceptives in addition to the condoms they offer now. "In this day and age we need to do everything we can to support our students," Lowell School Committee member Connie Martin said during a subcommittee
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The city of Boston's population is now a little shy of 700,000, the highest it has been since 1960, according to federal survey data. Boston's population reached about 694,583 on July 1, 2018, a 12.5 percent increase over the 617,594 found as
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Editor's Note: Stephanie Packer, a mother of four in her mid-30s who lives in California, testified Tuesday, June 25, 2019 while sitting in a wheelchair with an oxygen tube in her nostrils before the Massachusetts Legislature's Joint Committee on Public Health about a proposed bill that