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BOSTON – If a coalition of labor unions and liberal activists have their way, Massachusetts soon may regain its old nickname: Taxachusetts. Last week, sponsors of a proposed ballot question that seeks to impose a surtax on the Bay State's highest income earners submitted more than the required 64,
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BILLERICA, Mass. (AP) — The Salvation Army says someone has placed a wedding band and a diamond engagement ring worth $3,500 in one of its holiday red kettles in Massachusetts. The charity said Tuesday that the anonymous donation made last week in the town of Billerica, about 20 miles northwest
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STATE HOUSE — Tom Brannelly wanted legislators to be able to put a face to the issue of distracted driving as they weighed a bill that would ban hand-held cell phone use while behind the wheel, so he held up an oversized photo of his daughter Katie, who died in 2013
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Rose Hawthorne (1851-1926) was the daughter of author Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife, Sophia Peabody. After suffering deep personal tragedy, she found solace in serving the terminally ill and the poor. Rose eventually founded the modern hospice movement, which had worldwide reverberations for compassionate end-of-life treatment. When Rose was two
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The problem with movies is that watching costumed actors in an unfolding story over two hours leads us to believe them. It becomes difficult to separate fact from storytelling. Cinema becomes irresistible. What most people view at the movie theater they receive as historical truth. Now we have "Spotlight.
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Gordon College, the small Christian liberal arts college just 30 minutes north of Boston, became the focus of much negative media attention just over a year ago. Its president, D. Michael Lindsay, had signed an open letter to President Obama, supporting a religious exemption to his Executive Order prohibiting federal
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BOSTON — Referring to his run for presidency as a "political revolution," 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) addressed a crowd of more than 20,000 supporters on Saturday at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. "The media always seems to be asking me, 'How
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Halloween is in the air, and what better way to spread spooky holiday cheer while learning about early American superstitions and the origins of the holiday, than with a trip to Salem, Massachusetts. Known as the "Witch City," because of the infamous witch trials of 1692, Salem offers
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