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Joe Kennedy III Hits Ed Markey Over 2002 Pro-Iraq War Vote

Matthew McDonald

U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III criticized U.S. Senator Ed Markey for voting to authorize the second Iraq war in 2002 during a candidates' night in Cambridge.

Kennedy and Markey have similar left-of-center policy stances. Markey is running on his record, while Kennedy is arguing he can be more effective at getting their shared agenda enacted.

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New Superintendent of Schools in Providence Touts Grandmother’s Discipline

Matthew McDonald

The new head of the failing public schools in Providence, Rhode Island says he was raised by a grandmother who had a second grade education but a "doctorate in discipline."

Harrison Peters, who has worked as a teacher, principal, and administrator, was named superintendent by the state's education commissioner, because the city's public schools are in such rough shape that they have been taken over by the state.

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