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Tom Joyce is a seasoned journalist and political commentator with a rich background in covering politics, sports, and pop culture. Since 2019, Tom has been a prominent contributor to NewBostonPost.
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A biological male track runner who identifies as a girl had a strong performance at the girls' outdoor track and field state championship meet in New Hampshire last month. Maelle Jacques, a freshman at Kearsarge Regional High School in Sutton, New Hampshire, finished in second place in one event
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The annual Massachusetts sales tax holiday weekend will take place on Saturday, August 12 and Sunday, August 13 this year, Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka (D-Ashland) told State House News Service on Monday. Spilka did not address the topic in any further detail.
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A Massachusetts state legislator came out as bisexual this week. Massachusetts Senate President Pro Tempore Will Brownsberger (D-Belmont), a 66-year-old man who has been married to a woman for the past 38 years, revealed this personal matter in a Commonwealth Magazine op-ed this week.
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Abolish state income tax? One bill on Beacon Hill would do that for the state's youngest workers.
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State Senator Anne Gobi (D-Spencer) is leaving her position later in June to become the rural affairs director in Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey's administration — and two Republicans are vying for the party nomination to run in the special election. State Representative Peter Durant (R-Spencer), who has represented the
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President Joe Biden plans to visit Connecticut later this week. The President is the keynote speaker at the National Safer Communities Summit at the University of Hartford in West Hartford on Friday, June 16, according to WTNH. It is a pro-gun control summit.
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Should Massachusetts residents be allowed to change their gender on their marriage license once they have been married? A bill on Beacon Hill would make that change.
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State Senator Anne Gobi (D-Spencer) is leaving her position later in June to become the rural affairs director in Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey's administration. On the Democratic side, state Representative Jon Zlotnik (D-Worcester) is running for the post. On the Republican side, another state legislator will run.