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Massachusetts

Baker joins DeLeo and Walsh to fight pot ballot measure

BOSTON – Republican Gov. Charlie Baker has joined forces with Democratic leaders Robert DeLeo, the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to oppose a likely ballot question asking voters to make retail marijuana sales legal in the state. The three officials have previously voiced opposition

Massachusetts

Brown to appear at O’Connor fundraiser in Senate bid

BOSTON – Former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, in the news lately for backing Donald Trump's bid for the Republican presidential nomination in New Hampshire, will lend his support Tuesday to Weymouth's Patrick O'Connor in his campaign for the state Senate. O'Connor, a town

Massachusetts

Tsongas to face rematch with GOP’s Wofford for Congress seat

LOWELL – Ann Wofford, a Republican from Haverhill, is redoubling her efforts to challenge Democratic U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas, announcing the official kick off her campaign next week in the heart of Tsongas's Mill City hometown. Wofford, who lost in her first bid against Tsongas in 2014 by

Democrats

Ayotte picks up key endorsement from former GOP foe

MANCHESTER, N.H. – U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, the New Hampshire Republican battling to fend off a challenge for her Senate seat from Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan, scored what could prove to be a significant coup to shore up support within conservative circles after a former GOP foe penned a

Massachusetts

Common Core foes vow stepped up ballot campaign

BOSTON – Supporters of an initiative to end the adoption of national Common Core education standards in Massachusetts pledged to obtain the petition signatures needed to put the issue before voters in November after lawmakers on Wednesday sent a similar legislative proposal to a study committee, where little action is expected.

Massachusetts

Some see rifts in Mass. GOP, but others see only growing pains

BOSTON – A high-ranking member of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee on Friday deflected reports that Gov. Charlie Baker is quietly working to help elect more moderates to the panel and weed out representatives of the party's more conservative wing. "Many of the incumbents the governor is supporting

Massachusetts

Pro-life views dominate GOP state committee, group says

BOSTON – Almost two-thirds of the 80 Republican State Committee members elected last week are pro-life, and there may be more, according to an advocacy group that says it worked the phones prior to the elections on behalf candidates who share its views. "While the buzz was all about the

terrorism

Iranian body electees include men implicated in terror, assassinations

(CNSNews.com) – Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday hailed Iran's "glorious" elections for parliament and the Assembly of Experts, a powerful body that will pick his successor, declaring that the turnout showed "the brilliant face of religious democracy to the world." The Islamic