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By Gintautas Dumcius CommonWealth Beacon An increasing number of Bay State voters view the state as on the wrong track, leading to some slippage in elected officials' approval ratings, according to a web-based poll conducted for the Retailers Association of Massachusetts.
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Massachusetts has had a right-to-shelter law since 1983 — but its beneficiaries in the early years looked much different from how they look now. The statute guarantees emergency assistance shelter at state government expense for families and pregnant women.
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Vaughn Grissom hopes to help the Boston Red Sox address their infield problems. The Red Sox activated the 23-year-old second baseman from the Injured List on May 2, after he missedthe first month of the season with a groin injury. Grissom is new to the organization; the Red Sox traded
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Massachusetts is being taken advantage of due to the lack of a residency requirement on the state's right-to-shelter law, a state legislator from Cape Cod recently said. State Representative Steve Xiarhos (R-Barnstable), who supports amending the right-to-shelter law in Massachusetts to include a residency requirement, said the law
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John Kerry received a prestigious honor from the White House this week. President Joe Biden announced 19 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients on Friday, May 3, including Kerry.
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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey recently told business leaders that she doesn't support raising taxes — despite announcing a proposal earlier this year that would raise taxes in at least some places in the state. While giving a speech to the New England Council at the Boston Harbor Hotel on
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By Bruce Mohl CommonWealth Beacon A special committee of eight Massachusetts House and Senate lawmakers on Wednesday issued a series of reports on the state's pending ballot questions and in each case determined that the proposals ought not to be approved as new laws by the Legislature.
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The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind by Joseph Nocera and Bethany Lee McLean Penguin Random House 448 pages October 2023 This book describes the business aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the problems that resulted in multiple failures, both in
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