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BOSTON (AP) — The grassroots activists who upended Boston's well-funded and star-studded Olympic bid are exporting their expertise. Leaders of No Boston 2024 and No Boston Olympics are showing opposition groups elsewhere how they helped turn public opinion against the city's bid for the 2024 summer games,
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STATE HOUSE — Gov. Charlie Baker praised President Barack Obama's decision to address the nation Sunday night and voiced support for a Marblehead Democrat's gun bill. The president addressed the nation from the Oval Office in a short speech where he said the two alleged perpetrators of
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has named "Spotlight," which chronicles The Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the abuses of the Catholic Church, the best film of the year. The critics' group is known for often straying from the predictable awards
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BOSTON – Hours of sunlight decrease and temperatures drop as Americans once again reopen the now-yearly debate over what to call this time of year – the Christmas season? The holiday season? December? Yet few Americans know that this debate, in various forms, arises almost as regularly as the season and dates
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Stepping out of the winter chill into the palatial foyer of the Boston Opera House, ruby walls of damask warm your face and towering columns of snow-white marble lift your eyes to a grand center staircase showcasing a majestic, emerald-green Christmas tree. Arriving at the theater for this season'
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BOSTON – Mayor Marty Walsh isn't folding yet in his fight against an Everett casino planned by Wynn Resorts, even after a Suffolk Superior Court judge tossed out a lawsuit seeking to block the $1.7 billion development. "I'm not going to roll over," Boston&
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BOSTON – Senator Anthony Petruccelli, an East Boston Democrat and a key member of Senate leadership, plans to resign his seat to join a Beacon Hill lobbying outfit. "After almost 17 years in the Legislature and over 20 years in public service, my family and I felt like it was
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BOSTON – One of dozens of historic maps missing from the Boston Public Library turned up in the hands of a New York City antiques dealer, who was offering it for sale at $285,000 last summer before a sharp-eyed library curator spotted it. The 1612 map, compiled by French explorer
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