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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will ring in the first full week of the new year with a campaign stop in Lowell. According to the Trump campaign, the candidate will host a rally Monday, Jan. 4 at the Paul E. Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell. The event will begin at
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STATE HOUSE — Despite brutal winter weather that delayed the start of the usual home-buying season, 2015 has featured an historic burst of growth in the housing market, analysts said in a report released Tuesday morning. Adding to the already positive year for the housing market, November home sales in Massachusetts
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BOSTON – Patients prescribed opioids for the first time would be limited to a seven-day supply and any individual admitted to an emergency room because of an apparent drug overdose would be required to undergo a substance-abuse evaluation within 24 hours, under a redrafted House bill made public Monday. The bill
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A friendly competition between political leaders turned into teamwork Wednesday, as Boston Mayor Marty Walsh had an unexpected visitor drop by to help him as celebrity bell ringer: Gov. Charlie Baker. Within minutes of Walsh taking over at The Salvation Army kettle post located outside Macy's at Downtown
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BOSTON — Set to become the next mayor of Weymouth in a little more than a week, state Sen. Robert Hedlund on Thursday formally filed his intent to resign his seat on Jan. 4, a step required before the Senate could consider scheduling special election next year. Hedlund, a Republican who
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STATE HOUSE — Though MBTA officials refuse to take the option of shutting down the Green Line extension project off the table, House Speaker Robert DeLeo on Tuesday said he didn't think the state could "completely abandon" the 4.7-mile trolley project, even if that requires cutting
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BOSTON — As Massachusetts school districts prepare for the MCAS 2.0 era to launch in the spring of 2017, ballot activists are pledging to undo the education standards behind one of the exams expected to influence the revamped student assessment test. In November, the state Board of Elementary and Secondary
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Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez, at a gathering of newly-elected Latino officials, advised them to learn the issues effecting their entire constituency and not just focus on issues effecting Latinos. "Get engaged with everyone. Just because you're Latino doesn't mean you stick to your Latino community. You&