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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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Former U.S. Representative Chris Shays (R-Connecticut) supports Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. "I am excited about her. I'm not just happy. I'm really thrilled," Shays told CT Mirror. "It's positive versus negative. It's honest
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If former President Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, he would consider putting independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his administration. "He's a brilliant guy. He's a very smart guy. I've known him for a very long time," Trump told CNN
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A Democratic candidate for the Massachusetts Senate wants to stop paving roads so people stop driving cars. New Bedford Democrat Molly Kivi, 34, who is pursuing the party's nomination in the Second Bristol and Plymouth District, expressed support for the idea in a recent interview with the New
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Federal immigration authorities arrested a 43-year-old Chinese illegal immigrant charged with sex crimes against Massachusetts residents. Deportation officers from Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston, a division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, arrested Yao Zhang on July 5 in Medford, authorities said.
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Former President Donald Trump can win the 2024 presidential election if he behaves himself, according to New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu. Sununu, who supports Trump, says he thinks the former president has the right ideas for the country, and thinks the only thing that could stop Trump from beating Vice
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A human recently contracted Eastern equine encephalitis in Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced this past weekend. The person who got it is a male in his 80s who got a mosquito bite in Worcester County, according to a press release from the state's health agency.
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By Bruce Mohl CommonWealth Beacon The Nantucket board of selectmen has released what might be described as a dispatch from the front lines of offshore wind development, a hot take on what it's like to be a municipality trying to co-exist with the nation's first industrial-scale
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A Democratic candidate for state representative from Martha's Vineyard has expressed support for abolishing prisons. Arielle Reid Faria, a Democrat from West Tisbury, said in 2020 that prisons should be abolished. She is now running for state representative in the Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket District.