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STATE HOUSE — Attorney General Maura Healey would be stripped of her authority to regulate firearms under a bill filed Friday afternoon by the state Senate minority leader. Sen. Bruce Tarr of Gloucester filed his "act to protect due process and strengthen public safety" 12 days after Healey announced
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The campaign to legalize adult marijuana use in Massachusetts announced endorsements Thursday from 10 state lawmakers, who said a ballot question's passage in the fall would generate new tax revenues and end marijuana prohibition laws that they called a failure. "It's time we got this
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MassHealth and Medicare each provided primary health insurance coverage for more than 1 million Massachusetts residents from December 2013 to March 2016, while around 4 million Bay Staters were covered by private commercial insurance, according to a new report from a state agency. More than 160,000 of those covered
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Last cycle's Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney may be considering an endorsement of the Libertarian ticket that includes another former Republican governor of Massachusetts, Govs. Gary Johnson and Bill Weld told CNN on Thursday. Johnson and Weld, the Libertarian presidential and vice presidential nominees, told CNN's
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Gov. Charlie Baker on Wednesday nominated two Superior Court judges, an assistant attorney general and a state solicitor to serve on the Appeals Court. The nominations of Judges Kenneth Desmond and James Lemire, State Solicitor Peter Sacks, and Assistant Attorney General Sookyoung Shin arrived with an endorsement, released by Baker&
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PHILADELPHIA — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders made a surprise appearance before Massachusetts Democrats Wednesday, rallying delegates around the goals of defeating Donald Trump for the presidency in November and ushering in a new wave of Democrats to lesser offices around the country. "I'll tell you what is different
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STATE HOUSE — Gov. Charlie Baker urged Attorney General Maura Healey on Tuesday to clarify her stepped up enforcement of the state's assault weapons ban, warning that "ambiguities" in her legal notice for gun dealers could lead to an unintentional ban on many guns long considered legal
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PHILADELPHIA — After state party officials cheerfully reported their delegates to the Democratic National Convention, insurgent delegates who had backed Bernie Sanders staged a walkout and about 100 or more occupied a press tent for a little more than an hour. Sanders has repeatedly endorsed Hillary Clinton, the winner of the