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How Much Are Massachusetts Congressional Staffers Making? Maybe More Than You Think
Working as a top staffer for the Bay State's members in Congress can fetch a salary well in excess of $100,000 — with some earning nearly as much as the official salary for a U.S. representative or U.S. senator. The two highest-paid staffers work for Massachusetts&
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Think Wind-Generated Power Is Saving People Money? Check Out America’s First Offshore Wind Farm
America's experiment in off-shore wind-based energy is raising rates on residents and creating another burden for businesses in a state that is already consistently ranked one of the worst places for businesses in the country. In December last year, the first off-shore wind farm started operating off the
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How Many Teachers Aren’t Showing Up?
When it comes to absenteeism in public schools, it's not just students who aren't showing up. Sometimes it's their teachers too. Actually, it's the teachers a lot of the time. On average, about a fifth of teachers in the Boston area miss
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Bowling for Abortions
A Rhode Island fund-raiser for abortion rights goes further than most other advocacy groups in expressing its support for the procedure, even asking participants to effectively sponsor individual abortions. "Truthfully, I am not quite sure how to react to this as it is just so difficult for me to
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Rodeos, Books, and Black Robes: What You Don’t Know About Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch
Judge Neil Gorsuch not only is a brilliant jurist and solid Constitutional originalist who is a worthy successor to Antonin Scalia — but he is also an avid outdoorsman and voracious reader and with a warm personality, one of his former clerks, Michael Kenneally, said in an interview with New Boston
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Nonprofit Colleges Pay Small Fraction of City Taxes
Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, the Museum of Fine Arts, and other nonprofit colleges, hospitals, and cultural institutions are indispensable to Boston's identity as a world-class city. But, when it comes to city finances, there's a huge downside. The proliferation of tax-exempt institutions in Boston — at
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Providence On the Brink?
A combination of dwindling revenues and soaring costs has put Rhode Island's capital city of Providence in such dire financial straits that some local businessmen think bankruptcy is the only way out. Tax-exempt exempt hospitals and colleges — particularly Brown University — have cut deeply into the city's