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"In Brockton, there hasn't been an event like this one. An event … with many people marching to demonstrate to the city of Brockton, the city councilors, the mayor, and to the many racists that reside here, that here, there is a community of immigrants. That here, we
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In the never-ending battle to decide which one is less horrendous, Harvard caught a break late this week when Yale made an unforced error and hired John Kerry to some mumbo-jumbo new role. Yale announced that Kerry, a former Massachusetts lieutenant governor, will be the school's "first-ever
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The lightning-fast approval of a $40 billion state budget by the Massachusetts House of Representatives this week offers a glimpse into what's wrong around here. Closed-door meetings, amendments shackled together or tossed aside — and then two days of debate and away we go.
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Decoding the Saran Wrap sex education bill on Beacon Hill is simple: Make the bizarre normative and take away local control. The bill's title, "An Act Relative to Healthy Youth," is laughable, since it seems bent on making youth unhealthy. Along with some boilerplate paeans to
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As of this week our country is now a little poorer because the United States Senate has less of a filibuster than it once did. Thank you, Senate Democrats. And special thanks to our two senators "from" Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey.
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As shocking as it is that a public official would publicly tip off lawbreakers about secret law enforcement activity, the subsequent public comments of Massachusetts state Representative Michelle DuBois are almost as shocking. On Tuesday, DuBois posted on her Facebook page that she had heard a rumor of a forthcoming
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Do you think the school bus driver in Chelmsford who told the cops he'd just smoked marijuana is in trouble? Legally, it's cloudy.
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Pro-family people often complain about the way the world is going today. The forces of darkness seem to win most of the time, except when they win all of the time. Who will do something about it? Well, with the announcement that the organizers of the St. Patrick's
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