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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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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) derided what he sees as corporate greed from pharmaceutical companies in a recent Fox News op-ed. Sanders said that Americans are struggling with high prescription drug costs and that it's having negative impacts on their lives.
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The Brookline High girls' indoor track and field team has a transgender runner. Chloe Barnes, a junior on the team, is a biological male who identifies as a transgender girl, as TB Daily News reported in January and Brookline's student newspaper, The Sag, reported last year.
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Should Massachusetts bring back rent control? State Senator Lydia Edwards (D-East Boston) says that most of her constituents support it.
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The video social media app TikTok will soon be banned on some government-issued devices in Maine. Maine's Office of Information Technology recently issued a directive saying that as of February 1, 2023, state-owned mobile phones and tablets within the executive branch will be barred from having TikTok on
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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders was the most popular write-in candidate for president in Rhode Island in 2020, recent data reported on by The Providence Journal reveals. President Joe Biden had no problem defeating then-president Donald Trump in the Democratic stronghold; Biden got 59.4 percent of the vote, while
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New Bedford will soon be one step closer to filling its Ward 3 city council seat. The city will do so by holding a preliminary election on Tuesday, January 24 and a runoff election on Tuesday, February 28.
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Cambridge) says she will run for a third term in 2024. Warren recently told reporters she plans to run again and that she will make a formal announcement about it in the near future.