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UMass Foundation agrees to divest from coal companies

STATE HOUSE — The University of Massachusetts Foundation will divest its $770 million endowment from investments in coal companies, marking a victory for climate change activists looking to bring financial pressures to bear on carbon emitters. The UMass Foundation Board, which manages the five-campus system's charitable contributions and endowment,

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Baker: MBTA ‘far better prepared’ for whatever winter brings

BOSTON — Standing in the cold drizzle Wednesday morning, Gov. Charlie Baker got an up-close look at some of the equipment the MBTA will entrust to keep the tracks clear and the trains running this winter, and said he expects to be involved in decision making at the T during major

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Boston, statewide home markets power into Fall

Boston's residential real-estate market showed gains in September while single-family home sales statewide jumped 25 percent, the best performance for the month in 10 years, data released Tuesday show. Home sales in the Hub climbed almost 15 percent during the quarter that ended in September compared with the

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The language of the Left

"Political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness" — George Orwell from "Politics and the English Language" (1946) What would George Orwell, who once described his own work in "Selected Writings" as "against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism,"

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Mass. property taxes grow by largest amount in five years

Property tax revenues across Massachusetts rose by 4.1 percent in the last fiscal year, the largest annual increase since fiscal 2010, but cities and towns continue to struggle to pay for employees and services due to unfunded fixed costs, according to a new report. The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation (MTF)

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At Harvard, Defense chief predicts generational battle against terror

CAMBRIDGE – Grappling with violent extremism will be a key challenge facing Americans for generations to come, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said at the Harvard Kennedy School Tuesday, hours after telling a congressional committee that more special forces were being deployed in Iraq to fight Islamic State. The

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A fighter takes aim at assisted suicide

BOSTON – Kristen Hanson remembers the phone call she received on May 13, 2014. It was an emergency medical technician who told her that her husband, J.J., who had appeared completely healthy when he left for work, had suffered a seizure and couldn't speak. But nurses couldn'

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Rosenberg questions endgame for ‘experimental’ charter schools

STATE HOUSE — Without indicating how the Senate is leaning, Senate President Stanley Rosenberg over the weekend referred to the charter school movement as an "experimental approach to education" that should not necessarily be allowed to continue to expand. After defeating a proposed lift to the charter school cap