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BOSTON – The Legislature's Committee on Revenue on Thursday morning gave its stamp of approval to a proposed constitutional amendment that would establish a 4 percent surtax on income in excess of $1 million in a bid to raise $1.9 billion. The proposal (H. 3933) seeks to raise
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BOSTON – Donald Trump's decision to skip Thursday night's Republican presidential debate came as a surprise to the head of Ted Cruz's campaign in Massachusetts, who said his candidate would have benefited from another chance to draw a contrast with the frontrunner. "I don&
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BOSTON – A Chinese national who facilitated the sale of nuclear technology to Iran will spend almost a decade in jail while his Iranian accomplice roams free as part of a deal between the governments of the United States and Iran. Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the
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You don't need a weatherman To know which way the wind blows "Subterranean Homesick Blues" — Bob Dylan WCVB-TV meteorologist Mike Wankum seemed crestfallen last Sunday night during a post-mortem of Winter Storm Jonas. A mere six inches of snow fell on Boston as a large swath
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BOSTON – The Massachusetts House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that would create a state Office of Health Equity, which supporters said would work toward eliminating health disparities based on factors like race and income. State Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez, a Jamaica Plain Democrat and the bill's sponsor,
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BOSTON – Massachusetts school districts should be allowed to pursue charter schools if they want, Speaker Robert DeLeo told his colleagues in the House of Representatives Wednesday, stirring up an issue in his annual address to the House that has been mired in the Senate where charters are viewed with skepticism.
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BOSTON – Gov. Charlie Baker plans to boost state spending next fiscal year by 3.5 percent, making targeted investments while holding the line on many government accounts despite back-to-back years of major jobs gains that are pushing up state tax collections by an estimated 4.3 percent. With a strong
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BOSTON – Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey may go after Gilead Sciences over the price of its new hepatitis C treatment, Sovaldi, calling the $84,000 cost of a full treatment against the deadly disease potentially an illegal unfair trade practice. Healey referred to pricing for the drug as well as
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