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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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Rayla Campbell wants Bill Galvin's winning streak to come to an end. The Republican from Whitman (and formerly Randolph) is running for Secretary of the Commonwealth against the entrenched Democratic incumbent. Galvin has served as the Secretary of the Commonwealth since 1995 — and other than four years out
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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) knows it won't pass, but he still wants to take a vote on it. The self-described democratic socialist thinks the U.S. Senate should vote on President Joe Biden's so-called Build Back Better social spending plan — even though the majority
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Emerson College doesn't want its students to leave their rooms on campus for a two-week stretch. The school issued a "stay in room directive" to students living in on-campus residential halls. It comes in response to the Omicron variant of coronavirus.
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The new minimum wage in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will soon be $14.25 an hour. The minimum wage is set to increase at the start of the new year. The year 2022 will begin on Saturday, January 1, 2022 — nine days from today.
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Vaccine passports aren't only for Boston now. The city of Salem, Massachusetts has followed Boston's lead.
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Some Democratic lawmakers in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts want to raise the corporate tax rate. Several spoke on behalf of a pair of bills that would do just that on Wednesday. The Joint Committee on Revenue of the Massachusetts Legislature held a hearing Wednesday, December 22 on bills that would
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Chuck Hunt, the first "first gentleman" in the history of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, died on Tuesday, December 21. Hunt, 67, was married to Jane Swift, 56, who served as the acting governor of Massachusetts from 2001 to 2003. Swift, the lieutenant governor, took over as acting governor
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If you want to have a non-essential, elective surgery in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts anytime soon, that may be a challenge — unless it's an elective surgical abortion. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker's administration's Department of Public Health issued guidance to hospitals on Tuesday on how