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BOSTON – Reports about the disproportionate impact of the legal marijuana industry on minority and low-income neighborhoods and families deserve a closer look, according to Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins, who so far has focused his opposition to the legalization ballot question on its health impacts. A recent Politico Magazine cover
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BOSTON – Senate President Stanley Rosenberg, a no-show at the launch of a campaign to defeat a proposed ballot measure to make marijuana retail sales legal, said Tuesday he still supports a third option that would make it more politically palatable for lawmakers to play a role in legalization if approved
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BOSTON — Senate President Stanley Rosenberg on Monday described to a breakfast crowd of union leaders his vision of how the Senate's work on education, transportation and housing issues is laying the groundwork for a debate over adding a "millionaire tax" to the state constitution. In discussing
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BOSTON – Charter school expansion foes mobilized to announce organized opposition to a ballot question that would lift the cap on the number of the publicly funded institutions in Massachusetts, gathering outside the State House Wednesday to rally support. The head of the group, Juan Cofield, who is also a regional
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BOSTON – A pair of hotly contested ballot proposals came in for some emotional testimony Monday during a public hearing hosted by the Joint Committee on Education, as supporters and opponents voiced their opinions on the initiatives to drop national Common Core standards from public schools and lift the state cap
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DENVER – A group of Massachusetts lawmakers returned Thursday from what state Sen. Jason Lewis (D-Winchester) described as a marijuana "fact-finding" trip to Colorado, where voters legalized pot in 2012. The three-day visit came after a proposal to make the drug legal in Massachusetts moved closer to the November
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BOSTON – Secretary of State Bill Galvin said seven initiative petition campaigns submitted enough certified voter signatures to meet the requirement for consideration by lawmakers and that he will send the proposals to the Legislature for consideration during the session that starts in January, moving the initiatives one step closer to
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