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BOSTON – Sharing a table at Harvard Medical School in Boston, New England's six governors pledged Tuesday to crack down on drug trafficking and share data from state prescription-monitoring programs. Levels of optimism varied among the four Democrats and two Republicans on the panel, as did the finger of
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BOSTON – Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker remains the country's most popular governor, according to a survey released Thursday by Morning Consult in Washington, and the Republican stands even taller when compared with his fellow New England governors. Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy and Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, both Democrats,
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SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Mourners from the top ranks of Washington and Hollywood paid final tribute to Nancy Reagan on Friday, recalling at her funeral how the former first lady and her husband made up "two halves of a circle," with a legendary love that seemed to inspire
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage is coming under attack for displaying wanted posters targeting environmentalists, unions and others at his latest town hall-style meeting, where he sparred with critics and gave one of them a sarcastic "buh-bye" as the protester was escorted from the building. The
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday declined to endorse the boldest proposal from the nation's governors to tackle the heroin crisis: limiting the number of high-powered painkillers doctors can prescribe at a time. A recommendation to limit the number opioid painkillers that doctors can hand out gained
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Republican governors who are running for president have made much of the fact that they have had executive experience as governors. They claim such experience prepares them to be president and those candidates without it, like Marco Rubio, thereby are not as qualified. The argument goes only so far, and
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BOSTON – U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton and Gov. Charlie Baker have patched up a rift over dealing with Syrian refugees which erupted last week after the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris. "We had a very good phone call at the end of last week," Moulton, a Democrat
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Written by Matt Murphy and Michael Norton STATE HOUSE — As Gov. Charlie Baker prepares to travel to Canada next week to meet with his fellow New England governors, a new report commissioned by business groups suggests that the region will face substantially higher energy costs and lose 52,000 private
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