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BOSTON – The Massachusetts Senate wrapped up three days of fiscal 2017 budget deliberations around 11 p.m. Thursday, voting unanimously to pass an annual spending bill after adding a total of $61.3 million on the floor. The measure calls for spending $50 million more than the plan passed earlier
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BOSTON – The outgoing head of the health care agency whose funding will be drawn down to pay for an accord over health care provider pricing is questioning the impact the deal would have on struggling community hospitals. Aron Boros, executive director of the Center for Health and Information Analysis, also
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Citing the recent line-of-duty deaths of Auburn police officer Ronald Tarentino and state trooper Thomas Clardy, the Senate unanimously agreed Thursday to a budget rider creating a scholarship program for the children of veterans, law enforcement officers and other public employees killed on the job. Both Tarentino, a father of
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BOSTON – Records show that a campaign finance loophole Massachusetts Democrats have accused Republicans like Gov. Charlie Baker of exploiting has worked out pretty well for them, too. The loophole issue has been a target of Boston Globe reports and at least one editorial detailing the Baker administration's role
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(CNSNews.com) – The winters are cold in Amherst, Massachusetts, where the state university relies on a modern central heating plant that burns natural gas most of the time, switching to fuel oil when gas is not available. But no matter.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren is grabbing center stage in the 2016 presidential race as Donald Trump's most effective antagonist and Sen. Bernie Sanders' top rival for the affections of progressive voters. The combination could make Warren an indispensable ally to Hillary Clinton, in the process elevating
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BOSTON – Environmentalists across Massachusetts were ecstatic Wednesday after members of the state Senate voted during budget deliberations to adopt an amendment banning plastic disposable shopping bags in the commonwealth. The amendment, proposed by state Sen. Jamie Eldridge (D-Acton), would take effect in August 2018 if it passes in the House
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Louisa May Alcott is famous for her novels, such as "Little Women," but her father, Amos Bronson Alcott, was well-known in his time for founding the Transcendentalist utopian community Fruitlands. The communal experiment lasted for only about six months, from June to December 1843, and was located in
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