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BOSTON — Compliance with federal rules barring discrimination in college athletics presents some challenges at University of Massachusetts campuses, some of which are wrestling with gender gaps in the student body. Undergraduate enrollment at UMass Boston was 54 percent women in the last school year, but female sports participation at the
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STATE HOUSE — The combination of no marquee statewide races fueling voter enthusiasm and scant competition for the scores of local elected offices that are up for grabs this cycle will ensure low voter turnout in Thursday's primaries, Secretary of State William Galvin said Tuesday. Galvin, the state'
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BOSTON — Gov. Charlie Baker's influence on the Supreme Judicial Court was seen for the first time Tuesday as the court returned from its summer recess with three new justices hand-picked by Baker. Justices Kimberly Budd, Frank Gaziano and David Lowy — plucked from the Superior Court ranks by Baker
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STATE HOUSE — Massachusetts Comptroller Thomas Shack is poised to give anyone interested the opportunity to take a closer look at the digital innards of state government with a new transparency website aptly called CTHRU. Rather than going the traditional procurement route, Shack has taken the innovation vibe and run with
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BOSTON — Disturbed by recent arrests involving Uber drivers accused of assaulting passengers, Sen. Linda Dorcena-Forry, who backed an unsuccessful effort to fingerprint drivers of app-based ride-hailing services, predicts lawmakers will need to return to the issue next session and did not rule out filing a new bill of her own.
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After weeks of vocal appeals to Gov. Charlie Baker, the union representing laid-off MBTA janitors has seized on a new target and venue. 32BJ SEIU, the union, announced Thursday evening it has filed unfair labor practice charges against the janitors' two employers S.J. Services and ABM with the
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BOSTON — The list of guests invited to the July 3 bash thrown by two top Department of Conservation and Recreation officials using state resources is a veritable who's who of the executive branch and the state Republican Party — including cabinet secretaries, department heads, senior advisors and political big
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STATE HOUSE — A fundraising appeal from the marijuana legalization campaign has drawn the ire of health care professionals and parents of children who died from opioid addiction after the group pitched legal marijuana as an alternative to prescription pain drugs in spite of the state's medical marijuana program.