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Christian Di Spigna has done a great service to citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: he has written a superb biography of Joseph Warren – the great Boston-based revolutionary leader, who was killed during the Battle of Bunker Hill. He titles the biography: Founding Martyr – The Life and Death of Dr.
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In memory of the late William Safire, place your bets now on possibilities for the year ahead. Choose from the choices offered or devise your own scenarios. Last year's column, Office Pool 2018, correctly anticipated President Donald Trump's ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Democratic
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School officials in Framingham rejected a bid to replace Columbus Day on the school calendar with "Indigenous Peoples Day," but added indigenous peoples to the commemoration. The Framingham School Committee voted 5-4 Wednesday night to approve the change, with the majority seizing on a compromise offered by the
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By Matt Murphy State House News Service To put 2018 into context, consider this.
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By Matt Murphy STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Two years after legislators ignited an uproar by voting through a generous package of pay raises for themselves and other public officials, the salaries for top ranking elected officials and rank-and-file legislators on Beacon Hill are going up again.
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By Chris Triunfo STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE State Representative Jim Lyons hosted his final nativity ceremony at the Massachusetts State House on Thursday, but the man who for eight years has been one of the most vocal critics of Democratic leadership on Beacon Hill spoke very little and instead let
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Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson appears to be the lone Massachusetts state official taking President Donald Trump's side in the shutdown of many federal government services in a dispute over Trump's proposed border wall. Hodgson, a Republican who often emphasizes border security and cooperation with federal
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It once seemed self-evident that if a thing is valuable, it is worth protecting. Conversely, if a thing is deemed worthless, it's tossed away with nary a thought. But now, at this time in American history, as a caravan of apparent asylum-seekers has finished passing through Mexico (not
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