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Massachusetts voters shot it down 25 years ago, but some Democrats in the Massachusetts Legislature want rent control back. A legislative committee on Beacon Hill plans to consider a bill on Tuesday, January 14 that would once again legalize rent control in the state. Called "An Act Enabling Local
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In recent years, left-wing Democrats and so-called "progressives" have routinely labeled as racist some of America's greatest Founding Fathers and military leaders who were slaveholders – men such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Robert E. Lee. They have also demanded that statutes of these men be
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The Republican governor of Vermont and the Democratic governor of Connecticut poured cold water this week on a regional carbon-emissions fee that could increase gasoline prices by 5 to 17 cents a gallon – isolating Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, who supports the idea. The regional proposal, called the Transportation Climate Initiative,
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Elizabeth Warren wants to raise taxes if she's elected president, but usually hasn't chosen to pay more herself. Massachusetts state income tax forms allow taxpayers to pay a higher rate to help out the state government. But according to tax returns posted on Warren's
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Below-market-rate housing advocates want the Massachusetts Legislature to allow cities and towns to add up to a 2 percent transfer tax on higher-end real estate sales in order to build more so-called affordable housing. The fee would apply to sale prices above the statewide median sale price and to certain
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Traveling military is often unpredictable, at times inefficient, and usually slower than you'd like. I knew all this well, but nothing prepared me for our journey home this past summer. In June we moved from Greece, where my husband was working, back to America. He works for the
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The new president of the Boston City Council wants to use a proposed increase in the state's gasoline tax to make public-transportation bus rides free throughout the city of Boston. "Let's find new ways to tackle old problems, like free MBTA buses to increase ridership
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JERUSALEM — The blood was barely dry from the attack by a machete-wielding assailant who wounded five Jews at a Monsey, New York, Chanukah party before an Israeli politician, Avigdor Lieberman, declared that the "main solution" to rising violent antisemitism in the United States is for American Jews to
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