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Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone is welcome to refrain from drinking Sam Adams beer the rest of his life, as he has vowed to do because the Boston Beer Company chairman praised the Trump tax cuts last week. But what's with calling Jim Koch and other business leaders "
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Pope Francis likes the big gesture. You can almost imagine him waving his meaty arm in a wide sweep while tossing off some breathtaking statement to a surprised aide. Here's one: Invite all bishops in the United States to tell the pope in person what they knew about
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Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of the Diocese of Providence hesitantly joined Twitter last February, warning that "I need a heavy dose of prudence in things that I post, because I don't use a lot of filters," he told the Crux online publication. Bishop Tobin disabled his
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The decision by a selectman in Haddam, Connecticut to take a knee during the Pledge of Allegiance last week is almost as laughable as it is offensive. Melissa Schlag, 43, a Democrat, is claiming her 15 seconds of fame by disrespecting our country. (If you want to see it in
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The Trump era sure has been good for shareholders in what the president likes to call the "failing New York Times." New York Times Company stock soared 141% between Election Day 2016 and late June 2018. You'd have made more money if you'd bought
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New York Magazine published Monday a long article about U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Cambridge) by Rebecca Traister. If you like edgy-sounding vulgarities and ponderous run-on sentences, dive right in. If not, here's a pithier summary, in four acts.
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I have a plan for Massachusetts public schools that will help their students become better people, more productive citizens. In schools, we will teach the Ten Commandments. Then we will move to the Beatitudes, and finally a summation of the two great commandments presented by that first century prophet Jesus
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The Earth's temperature has risen over the past century. There is no doubt about it. Since 1880, the temperatures on Earth measured on land and at sea show that the Earth's globally averaged surface temperature in 2016 was 0.94 degrees Celsius (1.69 degrees Fahrenheit)
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