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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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Wearing masks outdoors is a thing of the past in Rhode Island. Unvaccinated Ocean Staters no longer have to wear a mask outdoors in Rhode Island, although the state has made no changes to its indoor mask policy, as What's Up Newp reports.
Around New England
Did you get a gift for being vaccinated? Would getting a gift make you more likely to get vaccinated? Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker announced a new initiative to incentivize people to get the coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday. Starting Thursday, June 3, select Market Basket locations across the state will have
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Homeschooling was a lot more common in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts during the 2020-2021 school year than it was in past years. The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released its annual school enrollment figures recently — and it showed that the state's homeschooled population more than doubled
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Another Democrat plans to run for state auditor now that incumbent Suzanne Bump won't run for re-election. In addition to governor's council member Eileen Duff, Chris Dempsey says he's running. Dempsey previously served as the assistant secretary of transportation for Massachusetts, as many news
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How Democratic is Massachusetts? It's the most Democratic state in the country, according to FiveThirtyEight.
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What do Seth Moulton (D-Salem) and Richard Neal (D-Springfield) have in common? A lot, probably. They're both Democratic congressmen from Massachusetts. They both won primaries against Democrats to their left last year. And they both take corporate political action committee money.
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An openly homosexual Republican Congressional candidate attacked organizations that promote traditional family values in a Facebook video on Tuesday morning. Jeffrey Sossa-Paquette, who is running in the Second Congressional District in central Massachusetts, went after both the Massachusetts Family Institute and Renew Massachusetts Coalition, calling them bigots and extremists, and
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The answer is yes. Althea Garrison, a former state representative and former member of the Boston City Council, plans to run for city councilor at-large once again this year. Garrison filed a statement of candidacy to run, a spokesman for the City of Boston told NewBostonPost in an email message