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Five Questions for Dave O’Brien;Red Sox Broadcaster
How many kids who grow up in New England loving the Boston Red Sox ever make it to the big leagues? Not many, but Dave O'Brien is one of them.
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Five Pieces of Pork In The Proposed Massachusetts Fiscal Year 2024 Budget
Massachusetts state legislators are working on a budget for fiscal year 2024 — and it's huge. With more than $56.2 billion in the proposed House budget (H.3900) and various non-monetary provisions, the state continues its trend of avoiding restraint in favor of massive budgets and massive spending.
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Katherine Clark Says Males Competing In Girls’ Sports Is Not A Problem In Massachusetts
The United States House of Representatives voted to prevent males from competing in girls' sports last week. None of the nine U.S. Representatives from Massachusetts supported the measure.
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How Noah Webster’s Dictionary Helped Reinforce America As A Christian Nation
NewBostonPost is publishing a regular weekly column by local religious leaders on Friday. This week's article is below. On April 14, 1828, Noah Webster, age 70, had his long-awaited American Dictionary of the English Language copyrighted and ready for publication. The year before, when finishing the work, he
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Five Most Useless College Classes In Massachusetts
Massachusetts is known for many things nationally. It has great professional sports teams. It is where the Pilgrims settled. It is where the Revolutionary War began. It produces many failed presidential candidates. And it is home to many colleges and universities, most famously Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Dover-Sherborn Using Genderbread Person To Teach 12-Year-Olds There Are Infinite Genders
Gender exists on a spectrum and there are far more than two genders, the curriculum taught to middle schoolers in Dover-Sherborn says. The seventh-grade health curriculum at Dover-Sherborn Regional Middle School uses the genderbread person in its curriculum to teach this claim as fact, as opposed to the common understanding
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Somerville Makes Polyamory A Protected Class In Hiring and Policing
Being in a polyamorous relationship now puts people in a protected class in Somerville, Massachusetts. The Somerville city council recently approved three ordinances to make it happen. City councilors Willie Burnley Jr. and J.T. Scott sponsored the three ordinances, which passed 11-0 during a meeting Thursday, March 23. Mayor
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Massachusetts Bill Would Legalize Some Fireworks
Massachusetts is unlike the rest of the country. The Bay State is the only state where no forms of consumer fireworks are legal.
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