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By Matt Murphy STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Governor Charlie Baker, drawing a sense of urgency from a fatal car crash this summer in Cotuit and a new Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling, made a case Tuesday for why judges must be able to consider someone's full criminal record
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By Matt Murphy State House News Service To put 2018 into context, consider this.
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By Matt Murphy STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Two years after legislators ignited an uproar by voting through a generous package of pay raises for themselves and other public officials, the salaries for top ranking elected officials and rank-and-file legislators on Beacon Hill are going up again.
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By Chris Triunfo STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE State Representative Jim Lyons hosted his final nativity ceremony at the Massachusetts State House on Thursday, but the man who for eight years has been one of the most vocal critics of Democratic leadership on Beacon Hill spoke very little and instead let
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By Matt Murphy STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Despite Massachusetts Republican Party treasurer Brent Andersen claiming sufficient support to become the next chairman of his party, the leadership race within the MassGOP appears to be more fluid than ever, with one candidate disputing Andersen's count and another jumping into
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By Colin A. Young State House News Service As cold weather and higher electricity prices start to encroach, Massachusetts energy officials want to lobby the federal government to ease restrictions on shipments of liquefied natural gas into New England in hopes of controlling costs and improving reliability in the energy
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By Katie Lannan STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A regional market-based program to reduce carbon emissions from transportation and a goal that all new cars, light trucks, and buses sold in Massachusetts be electric by 2040 are among the recommendations in a two-volume, 237-page state report rolled out Friday afternoon.
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By Matt Murphy State House News Service Two hundred and forty-five years ago this month, the Sons of Liberty boarded British ships and threw chests of tea into the harbor to protest taxes.