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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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Gasoline prices are going up because more people are buying it, there's less of it stored up, and there are conflicts in some places where it's drilled. The price of oil is now more than $80 for one barrel, and it might go even higher. In
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Gender exists on a spectrum, and more than two genders exist, a curriculum at Sharon Middle School School says. The sixth-grade health curriculum at Sharon Middle School uses the genderbread person to teach this claim as fact, rather than the common understanding that there are two sexes, male and female,
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U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Hyde Park) wants the federal government to commit to not deport anyone to Haiti. Given the political instability in the country, including the recently announced resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry and recently heightened gang violence, Pressley told GBH News that deporting someone to Haiti
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Vice President Scott Brown? It was a possibility that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. considered.
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A man was arrested in Rockland this week after police said he raped a child at a hotel that serves as a migrant shelter. Cory B. Alvarez, 26, is accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl on Hingham Street in Rockland, the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office said
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Thanks to the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association, you can no longer pay cash for a ticket to many Massachusetts high school sports playoff games. That's because the MIAA handles ticketing for its postseason tournament games, and the state's high school athletic governing body requires people to
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A retail food market located in Malden has recently reached a settlement agreement with the government following allegations of violating federal laws regarding the sale and transport of misbranded and uninspected meat and poultry products. This agreement comes after the market had been operating under a consent decree due to
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Good Friday will no longer be a day off for students in Westborough, Massachusetts, starting next school year. Instead, the school will give students days off for a Hindu holiday and another for a Muslim holiday.