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Massachusetts U.S. Senator Ed Markey is calling Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's promise to hold a floor vote on Markey's Green New Deal resolution a "Republican trick." Markey (D-Malden) tweeted his disapproval of McConnell's statement on Tuesday, February 12:
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A bill that would tax carbon dioxide emissions from oil, natural gas, and coal in Massachusetts has 107 co-sponsors in the 200-member state Legislature – all of them Democrats. HD.2370 calls for charging $20 per ton of carbon dioxide unit in the first year, then increasing the tax $5 per
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The operator of a conservative camp is asking a federal judge to order the city of Boston to fly the Christian flag from a flagpole at City Hall. Harold "Hal" Shurtleff, co-founder of Camp Constitution, headquartered in West Roxbury, has sued the city in federal court. A hearing
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren listed herself as an "American Indian" in her own handwriting on a Texas Board of Bar Registration card in 1986 – about a year before she joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. It's the earliest public document that
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Super Bowl LIII Sunday, February 3, 2019 6:30 p.m. EST New England Patriots vs. Los Angeles Rams
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The archbishop of New York has no plans to excommunicate New York Governor Andrew Cuomo from the Roman Catholic Church for signing a bill making abortion legal in that state up to the moment of birth, saying he thinks it would backfire. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, one of the prominent leaders
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A leading Massachusetts anti-tax group is condemning Governor Charlie Baker's support for an increase the state's excise tax on property deeds, calling him "a disappointment." "Gov. Baker has an excuse for every betrayal," said Chip Ford, executive director of Citizens for Limited
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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has upheld the first-degree murder conviction of a heroin dealer who shot a potential customer to death in Lawrence. Jose Hernandez claimed at trial that he shot Roberto Plaza in the chest on June 7, 2009 in self-defense when Plaza while sitting in his car