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BOSTON – Speaker Robert DeLeo, the leader of the state House of Representatives, said Wednesday he attributes Donald Trump's success in Republican presidential contests to dissatisfaction among voters, though he doesn't agree that the billionaire businessman represents change in the political system. "I, quite frankly, think
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BOSTON – Last summer, state Rep. Geoff Diehl (R-Whitman) attended a fundraiser for real estate magnate Donald Trump at the home of car dealer and Boston personality Ernie Boch, Jr. Apparently, he liked what he saw.
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BOSTON – They can bring Hollywood A-listers like Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, put Boston and other Bay State communities on the silver screen and pump millions of dollars into the local economy, but critics say the cost of film tax credits makes them a bad deal for Massachusetts. "Every
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Last week, Boston Ballet announced a dynamic program for its 2016-17 season. The company will open with the North American premiere of Ivan Liška's Le Corsaire, and will also be the first North American group to perform William Forsythe's complete Artifact. The catalogue also includes works
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With the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court facing several pending vacancies and more on the horizon, and with the late Justice Antonin Scalia's United States Supreme Court seat vacant and already creating a showdown between President Obama and the Senate, the topic of who should fill judicial vacancies, particularly
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Most governors, state commissioners of education, state boards of education, and Chambers of Commerce seem to have an unshakable confidence in Common Core's standards as the silver bullet that will make all K-12 students college and career ready. This confidence is remarkable for two reasons. First, Common Core&
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WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) — Producers of a Mark Wahlberg movie about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing want to recreate the police shootout with the Tsarnaev brothers in the Watertown neighborhood where it happened. Representatives for "Patriots Day" sent fliers to residents of Laurel Street this month asking for their
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BOSTON – In a brief public hearing lacking of any counter-arguments, members of the Legislature's Joint Revenue Committee listened Tuesday to a western Massachusetts lawmaker's pitch to let cities and towns decide whether to slap drivers with a 3-cent-a-gallon fuel tax surcharge at the pump. "I
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