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By Michael P. Norton State House News Service Massachusetts slipped to 36th among states in a business tax climate index released this week by a foundation that promotes lower tax burdens, raising questions about the state's business investment appeal.
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Several left-of-center student groups at Harvard College are calling for a boycott of the student newspaper because a reporter asked a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman for comment about a rally on campus calling for the agency to be abolished. Editors of The Harvard Crimson maintain they were just
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A candidate for mayor of Brockton says he won't raise property taxes as much as state law allows if he is elected. Jimmy L. Pereira, an urban planner, made the pledge during a debate this past week.
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Pedaling, walking, and taking public trains and buses ought to take priority over helping drivers of cars in order to achieve "transit justice," Massachusetts U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley said. Pressley (D-Dorchester) is co-chairman of the new Future of Transportation Caucus, which she helped introduce during a press
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The conventional wisdom about WeWork these days is that it is some kind of failure. The privately held company announced that its co-founder, Adam Neumann, would step down as CEO. It also withdrew the planned initial public offering that it had registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That was
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By Matt Murphy State House News Service Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker's proposal to double the tax exemption for dependent children was left out of a $714 million spending bill being debated Wednesday because leadership prioritized building up the state's savings, a top House Democrat said.
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A Providence city councilor has endorsed recent vandalism of a city-owned statue of Christopher Columbus that covered the statue from head to toe with red paint. Katherine Kerwin, a Democrat and first-term city councilor, tweeted in support of the vandalism and then doubled down when interviewed by a Providence radio
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Democratic businessman Steve Pemberton is stopping his race for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, but not before taking a shot at his party's preference for what he called "legacy and birthright … incumbency and connections." Pemberton was one of two outsiders who thought they had a shot
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