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STATE HOUSE — Less than a month after Gov. Charlie Baker signed significant new clean energy legislation, 29 candidates for state office – including eight Democratic lawmakers – have taken a pledge to reject campaign money from 10 major energy corporations. The pledge, which has been made available to candidates seeking all 200
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WBUR and The Boston Globe are teaming up with UMass-Boston to host a series of live debates starting in September to explore the four ballot questions that voters will be asked to decide in November relating to charter schools, legal marijuana, slot gambling and the treatment of farm animals. The
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The campaign supporting a ballot question to allow additional charter schools in Massachusetts on Tuesday launched a new television ad aimed at highlighting the successes of charter schools and the options they provide parents. The 30-second spot, paid for by Great Schools Massachusetts, quotes a Boston Globe editorial calling charter
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BOSTON — Maine Gov. Paul LePage, who publicly said he wished he could challenge a Maine lawmaker to a duel, has a less belligerent reputation among his peers from New England and eastern Canada. "He didn't challenge me to a duel," Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy, a Democrat,
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An academic's ideas about what the future might hold inspired Gov. Charlie Baker to invite him to speak to Canadian premiers and New England governors. Speaking to the international assembly in Boston on Monday, MIT School of Engineering Dean Ian Waitz said in two decades or more the
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BOSTON — Maine Gov. Paul LePage, a second-term Republican who has become a lightning rod in the debate over drugs and race, did not shy away Monday from his suggestion that black and Hispanic drug dealers from other parts of New England are fueling the opioid epidemic in his home state,
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It is a subject of international intrigue and one that, try as they might, politicians in America just cannot seem to avoid. Perhaps fittingly so, when four New England governors and five eastern Canadian premiers met the press Monday to take questions following a day-long summit largely devoted to renewable
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Dean Serpa and Scott Conway of Gov. Charlie Baker's office spent time Friday preparing for the arrival Sunday of New England governors and Eastern Canadian premiers. Massachusetts is hosting this year's conference for the northeast state and province leaders. Private events are planned Sunday at the