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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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U.S. Representative Richard Neal (D-Springfield) and Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse are set to have at least one debate later this month. The two Democrats are running to earn their party's nomination in Massachusetts's First Congressional District, which covers western Massachusetts.
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In Rhode Island, 176 tax refund checks issued by the state had a slight misprint. The pre-printed signatures on those checks featured the names Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse due to an error in the state Division of Taxation's automated refund check printing system, as CNN reports.
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Richard Neal, the Springfield congressman who chairs the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, faces a primary challenge from his left in this election cycle, so he has raised a lot of money to try to maintain his seat in Congress. Neal, who represents Massachusetts&
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U.S. Representative Seth Moulton (D-Salem) has made his feelings clear about Republican-leaning states that opened up earlier and have subsequently seen an increase in coronavirus cases. Apparently, Moulton doesn't have much sympathy for them.
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It had been 43 days since the last coronavirus death in Vermont before a person died of it on Thursday, July 30, authorities said. Details of the death are not known to the public, but it increases the Green Mountain State's death toll to 57 overall in the
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Rhode Island's coronavirus response has gotten a little stricter, following an order from the state's Democratic governor, Gina Raimondo. This week, she announced a reduction in the amount of people allowed at social gatherings in the state, including house parties and backyard barbecues. She reduced the
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It's commonplace for Democratic politicians to support gun control, which gun rights advocates see as a restriction on their Second Amendment rights. But what about the First Amendment? During a Democratic primary Zoom debate among candidates running for a U.S. House seat in Massachusetts's Fourth
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Ed Markey's campaign is trying to portray the U.S. senator as the yet-more progressive candidate in his Democratic primary battle against U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III. The plan? Enlist the help of U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a democratic socialist.