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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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Vermont started allowing prisoners in the state to receive the booster shot against coronavirus in early December, and many people have capitalized. There are 1,283 people incarcerated in Vermont's correctional facilities, and 75 percent of them are vaccinated against coronavirus. Of those 75 percent, 89 percent are
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Will Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey run for governor in 2022? She hasn't announced that decision yet.
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Boston city councilor Lydia Edwards (D-East Boston) will most likely end up being a member of the Massachusetts Senate next year. The progressive Democrat, who supported 12 weeks of paid abortion leave for both men and women as a member of the Boston city council, won a Massachusetts Senate special
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Some form of a mask mandate went into place in the town of Northfield, Massachusetts earlier this week. While it won't affect every public building in town, it will change the way business is conducted in some of them. The town's board of selectmen voted 3-1
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Charlie Baker wants the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to show its respects to former U.S. Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada). Reid, 82, died on Tuesday, December 28. Reid had pancreatic cancer in the final four years of his life.
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) has something in common with former President Donald Trump: neither one of them is a fan of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a popular cryptocurrency that has surged in value in recent years as demand for it has increased — with some dips along the way. At
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The lieutenant governor of Rhode Island has coronavirus. Lieutenant Governor Sabina Matos, a Democrat, made the announcement on Tuesday, December 28.
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There have been more than one million confirmed coronavirus cases in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts since the pandemic began — and an unknown number of total cases that's presumably higher than that. On Tuesday, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced there were 9,228 new confirmed coronavirus infections