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Open Communist Got 5 Percent of the Vote In South Shore State Representative Race
What percentage of the population would vote for an open communist? The answer is at least 5 percent in the Fourth Norfolk District south of Boston.
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Shiva Ayyadurai Gets More Than 20,000 Write-In Votes For U.S. Senate In Massachusetts
Shiva Ayyadurai wasn't on the ballot this November, but he still got 21,134 write-in votes for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-Malden) easily won re-election with 66.2 percent of the vote to Dover attorney and Republican Kevin O'Connor'
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Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey, Jim McGovern Among Massachusetts Politicians To Take Money From Opioid-Tied Sackler Family
Several Massachusetts politicians have gotten sizable campaign contributions in past years from the family that owns a pharmaceutical company that has admitted guilt in the nation's opioid epidemic. The list includes a congressman and both current U.S. senators.
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Rayla Campbell Receives 695 Write-In Votes In General Election Against Ayanna Pressley
U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Dorchester) cruised to a re-election victory on November 3 this year, but a Republican challenger who ran as a write-in received several hundred votes in the election. Republican Rayla Campbell of Randolph got 695 votes in the election, according to the Secretary of the Commonwealth&
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Give Illegal Immigrants Driver’s Licenses To Mitigate Coronavirus Spread, Says Driving Families Forward Panelist
Give illegal immigrants driver's licenses or else they will spread coronavirus. That was the message from one panelist during a virtual event put together by Driving Families Forward via a Zoom call on Monday night.
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Public School Enrollment Drops, Homeschooling Soars Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Fewer Massachusetts children than usual are attending public schools this year — but the homeschool student body may have doubled. Statewide enrollment in Massachusetts public schools was down 3.9 percent from last year as of October 1, 2020, according to data provided to New Boston Post by the Massachusetts Department
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Earthquake Hits The South Coast Again
The second earthquake this month hit the South Coast of Massachusetts over the weekend, but it's possible that many did not notice it. The center of this earthquake was near Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The quake occurred around 1 a.m. on Sunday, November 22. It was a 2.0
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Massachusetts Travel Restrictions Placed On Maine, New Hampshire Amid Pandemic
Want to host people from out of state for Thanksgiving this year? Your options of doing so legally could be quite limited. Over the weekend, Massachusetts added Maine and New Hampshire to its list of travel-restricted states, according to Mass.gov. That means that people coming from either of those