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Coming soon to a Democratic Party presidential debate: the question, "Is it morally appropriate for anyone to be a billionaire?" A version of the query was raised earlier this month by the author Ta-Nehisi Coates. He was interviewing a new Democratic congresswoman from New York, the self-described socialist
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Massachusetts U.S. Senator Ed Markey is calling Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's promise to hold a floor vote on Markey's Green New Deal resolution a "Republican trick." Markey (D-Malden) tweeted his disapproval of McConnell's statement on Tuesday, February 12:
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A bill that would tax carbon dioxide emissions from oil, natural gas, and coal in Massachusetts has 107 co-sponsors in the 200-member state Legislature – all of them Democrats. HD.2370 calls for charging $20 per ton of carbon dioxide unit in the first year, then increasing the tax $5 per
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Pity poor Ed Markey. He's 72 years old, has been in Congress since 1976 – at this writing, 42 years, 3 months, 6 days. A United States senator for 5 years, 6 months, 23 days. And yet yesterday he felt the need to get his picture taken with and
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The operator of a conservative camp is asking a federal judge to order the city of Boston to fly the Christian flag from a flagpole at City Hall. Harold "Hal" Shurtleff, co-founder of Camp Constitution, headquartered in West Roxbury, has sued the city in federal court. A hearing
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As we all know, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is contemplating his post-political life while desperately trying to hold on as the state's chief executive officer. But who will be governor next week? That forecast is harder than you might think, because the options are expanding while the candidates
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The highest court in Massachusetts has upheld the conviction for involuntary manslaughter of a teen-age girl who repeatedly urged her boyfriend to kill himself, saying the commonwealth has a "compelling interest in preserving life." But the court said it was not ruling on assisted suicide in cases where
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren listed herself as an "American Indian" in her own handwriting on a Texas Board of Bar Registration card in 1986 – about a year before she joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. It's the earliest public document that
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