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Under President Joe Biden's administration, federal executions will not take place — to the joy of U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Dorchester). A public memo from U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the Justice Department will pause federal executions. This comes after former President Donald Trump'
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Former state representative Geoff Diehl (R-Whitman) will run for governor of Massachusetts in 2022. Diehl, who represented the Seventh Plymouth district from 2011 to 2019, made the announcement at an event in western Massachusetts on Sunday, July 4, with no press in attendance. Diehl confirmed the news in an email
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What makes Massachusetts different from the other 49 states? A lot of things, including its fireworks laws.
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Who did Dianne Hastie vote for in the 2020 presidential election? Well, it's unlikely she did. But someone did in her name.
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The federal government doesn't seem likely to give black Americans reparations anytime soon, but a left-leaning town in western Massachusetts will. The town council in Amherst voted 12-1 to approve a "Reparations Stabilization Fund" on June 21. It's a fund that will reimburse the
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Former Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis has a warning for the Democratic Party: don't cede fighting crime to Republicans. Dukakis, who was the Democratic Party's nominee for president in 1988, told The Hill in a recent interview that the movement to "defund the police" is
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Calling Claire Cronin "an abortion extremist," the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts says her nomination to become the next U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Ireland demonstrates the failure of U.S. Catholic bishops to hold Catholic politicians who support abortion accountable to their faith. Cronin, a
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Non-citizens should be able to vote in local elections in Massachusetts because they are already participating in civic life and paying taxes, advocates of a bill before the state legislature say. One of the sponsors, state Representative Mike Connolly (D-Cambridge), linked allowing non-citizens to vote to the state legislature'
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