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The Millionaires Tax in Massachusetts made it harder for the New England Patriots to sign free agents, the team's former head coach and general manager said. Bill Belichick made the comment during an interview with ESPN.
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Eddy Alvarez is a rare athlete who has competed in the Olympics in two different sports. A native of Miami, Florida, Alvarez has represented the United States in both speed skating and baseball. Alvarez's athletic journey began on the ice, where he excelled as a speed skater, eventually
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One member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives identifies as a they. State Representative Sam Montaño (D-Jamaica Plain) uses "they" as a pronoun on the Massachusetts Legislature's web site.
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By Michael Jonas CommonWealth Beacon While political leaders and policymakers voice concerns about the large number of families living on the financial edge, often extolling the value of various government-sponsored savings plans, they have simultaneously legalized sports betting, embracing an industry that is directly undermining the goal of saving for
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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 woman planning a protest in Boston this upcoming weekend in favor of allowing women to go topless in public has compared her fight to Rosa Parks's effort to integrate public buses in Alabama in the 1950s. Katrina Brees, founder of a group called Equaltitty, plans to lead
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A member of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary's board of trustees plans to speak at an Evangelicals For Harris online event this week. The coalition, which supports the presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris, is hosting a Zoom event at 7 p.m. Wednesday, August 14.
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A Democratic candidate running to represent the 25th Middlesex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives identifies as neither a man nor a woman. Evan MacKay, a Democrat from Cambridge, uses they/them pronouns and identifies as genderqueer. The candidate is primarying incumbent state representative Marjorie Decker (D-Cambridge).
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