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Emergency room wait times in Massachusetts are longer than national average

Despite a national reputation for excellence, Massachusetts hospitals lag behind the rest of the nation in emergency room wait times – by as much as 10 minutes in some instances, according to federal data for 2015 reviewed by the NewBostonPost. The greatest discrepancy is among local hospitals with high-volume ERs – between

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U.S. regulations cost American families $15K per year

We often think of government regulations as important and valuable, keeping us safe and protecting us from fraud. But did you know the cost of these regulations could be up to $15,000 per family? That's one finding of a new report by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)

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Will Massachusetts’ diverse economy blunt a looming recession?

With an overload of disparate data, headlines alarmingly assert that the economy is headed for a recession in 2016. Given the severity and duration of the last downturn, how might Massachusetts fare this time? Technically, The Great Recession of 2007-2009 ended on June 30, 2009. But quantitative evidence feeds negative

Obamacare

Judge sides with House Republicans against health care law

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Obama administration is unconstitutionally spending federal money to fund the president's health care law. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer is a win for House Republicans who brought the politically charged legal challenge in an effort

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Sanders urges removing pot from federal illegal drugs list

(CNSNews.com) – "We have got to have the guts to rethink the so-called war on drugs," Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said at Thursday's Democrat debate in Brooklyn. He identified the issue as one of the differences between himself and his rival Hillary Clinton.

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Judge Planet and the Planeteers

I thought my capacity for shock at judicial activism was exhausted, but an April 8 decision by a federal judge to allow a group of children to sue the federal government to stop climate change literally caused me to burst out laughing. The Left, of course, is giddy. Plaintiffs'

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‘Bathroom bill’ moot, if federal officials have their way

BOSTON — The federal government may soon require Massachusetts public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice, regardless of whether the state legislature passes the so-called "bathroom bill," an examination of U.S. Department of Education documents indicates. Massachusetts is currently considering legislation that

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Black 8.8% jobless rate more than double white rate

(CNSNews.com) — For February, the national unemployment rate was 4.9 percent, but for whites alone it was 4.3 percent and for Blacks it was 8.8 percent, more than double the rate of whites, according to the latest data available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Asians