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If you were the governor of a state and you wanted to get people to support or at least accept a policy of major interest, would you explain how it works? Not if you’re Maura Healey.
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President Donald Trump’s executive order this past week setting in motion the release of all remaining classified government documents concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is long overdue but welcome. President Kennedy died more 60 years ago. The continued withholding of documents over purported national security concerns
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Massachusetts legislators should end the harmful practice by some local and regional authorities in the state of ignoring detainer requests from federal immigration authorities. A handful of Republican legislators have filed bills to that purpose in the legislative session that began earlier this month. Democrats who dominate the state legislature
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Maura Healey’s attempt to cap charitable deductions from the Massachusetts state income tax is an attack on non-profit organizations. Instead of the unlimited deductions they have been allowed to take since 2023, taxpayers will now be limited to $5,000 per person and $10,000 per couple if Healey’
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Today is the 52nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the worst decision the U.S. Supreme Court has ever issued. Considering “no rights which the white man is bound to respect” (Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857) and “separate but equal” (Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896), that’s saying something. But Roe
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On Monday, President Donald Trump declared a limited war on wind turbines in the ocean. He ought to escalate quickly and finish them off. Specifically: He ought to end wind turbines off Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.
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Tania Fernandes Anderson, a Boston city councilor, has been indicted on federal charges that she took a kickback from a member of her staff who is a relative. The indictment, made public Friday, says Fernandes Anderson demanded that the unnamed person pay her $7,000 in cash out of a
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President Joe Biden's pardon of his son Hunter on Sunday night is the least shocking story of 2024. If you couldn't see this one coming ever since Hunter was indicted – even with the Biden administration's absurd denials – then you have no idea how things
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