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The Washington Post got something wrong about President Donald Trump. The newspaper issued a lengthy correction to a January 2021 quoting Trump as telling an elections investigator in Georgia "to find the fraud" and that she would be a hero if she did it.
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About one year ago the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shut down sectors of the economy in response to the coronavirus pandemic. While the virus has taken the lives of more than half a million Americans and hospitalized many more, people remain hesitant to donate blood out of fear of the virus,
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A short road running through the campus of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod has been renamed because its namesake fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War and supported slavery. Maury Lane is now officially called Marie Tharp Lane. The school has erected a temporary sign and plans
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[CORRECTION, 7 p.m. Friday, March 12, 2021: A previous version of this story included a provision that appeared in a draft version of the Cambridge ordinance on polyamory but was not included in the final version passed by the city council. The draft version required that members of a
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Planned Parenthood and their allies are once again pressuring Worcester mayor Joseph Petty and members of the school committee to implement so-called "comprehensive sexuality education" in the city's public schools. Two years ago, in February 2019, the school committee abandoned the proposal after hearing from parents
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Before he was a candidate for governor in Massachusetts, he was a state senator — and taught at a public college for two years. Benjamin Downing, a Democrat who lived in Pittsfield at the time but in East Boston now, served as a member of the Massachusetts Legislature from 2007 to
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Is there a right to health care in Massachusetts? Many Democrats in the Massachusetts Legislature think so.
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There may be some overlapping goals, but the approach differs. The Sierra Club is one of the most progressive environmental organizations in the country, but what do its leaders think of the Transportation and Climate Initiative that Massachusetts signed onto last December?
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