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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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Every Republican voted in favor of it, and all but three Democrats voted for it, as well. There was bipartisan support for the bill to legalize betting on professional and college sports (H.3993) in the Massachusetts House of Representatives last week. It passed 156-3. Although many social conservatives oppose
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If you want to go to a state college in Vermont this fall, then being vaccinated is a must — with few exceptions. Castleton University, Northern Vermont University, and Vermont Technical College will require students to be fully-vaccinated against coronavirus to attend school there, as NBC 5 reports.
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New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu considers both Maryland Governor Larry Hogan and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker friends. They're all Republicans from the Northeast. However, in a recent interview with NBC News, Sununu said that he thinks those two governors made political calculations to pander to residents of liberal
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When running for the U.S. House of Representatives in the Massachusetts Seventh Congressional District last year, Rayla Campbell says, she saw a problem. The 38-year-old conservative Republican from Randolph and mother of three attended events across the state as well as in New Hampshire to support various candidates, including
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How old should you have to be to get free condoms? At the four Planned Parenthood locations across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, there is no age requirement. Three of those clinics are in the biggest cities in the state: Boston, Worcester, and Springfield. The other is in Marlborough, a city
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Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker says the days of more coronavirus restrictions in the state are behind us. Baker told the media this week that he has no interest in going back and having more restrictions on daily life to combat the pandemic.
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If New Hampshire's Republican governor Chris Sununu were running for U.S. Senate and the election were held today, it would be a tight race. A recent poll released by the University of New Hampshire showed Sununu in a statistical tie with the state's incumbent Democrat,
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If the 2024 New Hampshire Republican primary were held today and voters could pick whomever they want, they would go with former President Donald Trump. A poll released by the University of New Hampshire on Wednesday confirms that — although Trump's support in the Granite State is slipping. Nearly