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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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Former President Donald Trump could dominate the 2024 Massachusetts Republican presidential primary, according to a poll released by UMass Amherst last week. The poll found that Trump has 59 percent support in the primary. His two closest competitors are two people who have not announced runs for president yet: Florida
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Massachusetts is known for many things nationally. It has great professional sports teams. It is where the Pilgrims settled. It is where the Revolutionary War began. It produces many failed presidential candidates. And it is home to many colleges and universities, most famously Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu supports abortion being legal. However, Sununu also now says that he supports states creating their own abortion laws and that the federal government should not have a say on the matter.
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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is no longer in the fight for $15. Instead, Sanders wants to raise the federal minimum wage to $17 an hour.
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Liberal politicians enjoy talking endlessly about big government programs, but who will pay for those programs? When given the opportunity to pay a slightly higher state income tax rate in Massachusetts, big government Democrats who, ideologically, aren't much different from self-described democratic socialists like U.S. Senator Bernie
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis visited New Hampshire last Friday. The Republican, widely considered a likely candidate for the party's 2024 presidential nomination, traveled to Manchester, New Hampshire for the New Hampshire GOP's annual Amos Tuck Dinner on Friday, April 14, according to WMUR.
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The Boston Marathon is set to take place this upcoming Monday, April 17. The 26.2-mile race begins in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and concludes on Boylston Street in Boston.
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Gender exists on a spectrum and there are far more than two genders, the curriculum taught to middle schoolers in Dover-Sherborn says. The seventh-grade health curriculum at Dover-Sherborn Regional Middle School uses the genderbread person in its curriculum to teach this claim as fact, as opposed to the common understanding