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BOSTON – In the latest chapter of an ongoing debate around the number of Massachusetts students waiting for charter school seats, Auditor Suzanne Bump on Friday released an analysis finding that an updated waitlist could still lack accuracy. On Feb. 18, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education announced that 34,
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CAMBRIDGE – Royall appears to be falling. Harvard Law School, which last year saw activist students demand that the institution scrub the emblem honoring the family of an early benefactor, Isaac Royall Jr., over his ownership of slaves 300 years ago, caved to pressures this week and voted to support dumping
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STATE HOUSE — The Massachusetts smoking age would rise to 21 and pharmacies would be banned from selling cigarettes and other tobacco products under a bill recommended Thursday by the Joint Committee on Public Health. The bill, intended to curb youth tobacco use and nicotine addiction, also includes electronic cigarettes and
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A funny thing happens every January or February. During most of the year, journalists and politicians trumpet relatively small gains in employment or drops in the unemployment rate. Gov. Gina Raimondo repeatedly proclaims, for example, that Rhode Island's unemployment rate dropped faster over the year
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A list of significant dates in New England history: March 1
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In an extraordinary display of Republican chaos, the party's most recent presidential nominees, Mitt Romney and John McCain, lambasted current front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday, calling him unfit for office and a danger for the nation and the GOP. "His is not the
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BOSTON – A day after saying he wouldn't vote for Donald Trump, a testy Gov. Charlie Baker refused to offer his thoughts on former Gov. Mitt Romney's critique of the bombastic billionaire and the consequences of making him the Republican presidential nominee. Baker, who had just spoken
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BOSTON — Do your kids think history is boring? They won't when it's re-enacted before their very eyes! Stop by the Old State House, at the intersection of Devonshire and State streets, this Saturday evening, March 5, for a reenactment of the legendary Boston Massacre.
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