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BOSTON – Across the Charles River from the seat of Bay State power sits the city of Cambridge, the intellectual heart of the commonwealth and sometimes known as the Peoples Republic. So when the Cambridge City Council formally declared Christopher Columbus as a sort of historical persona non grata Monday, it
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BOSTON – The Hub is expected to be a more crowded place by 2030 and a report issued Tuesday says growth in Greater Boston's population and workforce will require "additions" to its transportation system, energy grid, water and sewer systems as well as other infrastructure. "As
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BOSTON – U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the senior senator from Massachusetts, kept up her attacks on Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, declaring on Monday that he's a product of "extremism" fomented by her GOP Senate colleagues. On Saturday, Warren blasted the former reality television
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BOSTON — Sandwiched between two physicians recently disciplined for their roles in issuing a whopping 10,400 out of the nearly 30,000 medical marijuana licenses granted in Massachusetts is an unnamed doctor who could be next. Katie Condon, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, didn'
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BOSTON – Older adults in the Bay State fare much better in terms of their overall health compared with the rest of the nation. Moving up from sixth place, Massachusetts ranked first in a recent survey of the health of older residents, according to the state Health and Human services office.
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BOSTON – State regulators have reportedly suspended a second Massachusetts physician over prescribing medical marijuana, saying that more than 4,600 of the certificates needed to obtain the drug legally were issued in his name. That means suspended Dr. Tyrone S. Cushing, a Newton resident, accounted for more than 15 percent
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BOSTON — After another lackluster month of collections, tax receipts are now running $311 million behind budget benchmarks with just one month left in the fiscal year, leaving Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker with an immediate budget problem. May tax collections were up just 1.8 percent over May 2015 and fell
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It's going to get harder for teens to buy a pack of smokes in the second largest city in Massachusetts, after the Worcester Board of Health voted to raise the legal age to buy cigarettes to 21 in September. The unanimous vote followed a packed public hearing Wednesday
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