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No More Sam:  Somerville Mayor To Abstain From Boston Beer Over Pro-Trump-Tax-Cut Comments

Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone is vowing to boycott Samuel Adams beer for the rest of his life because company co-founder Jim Koch touted the Trump tax cuts during a meeting with the president last week.

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Lindstrom, Appearing By Herself At ‘Debate,’ Expresses Support for Both Legal Abortion and Kavanaugh

Beth Lindstrom supports legal abortion, but she would likely vote for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh even if he doesn't answer questions about abortion law during his confirmation hearings scheduled for next month. Jim Braude, the host of Greater Boston on WBGH-TV Channel 2, pressed Lindstrom

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Feds To Cambridge Man: You Can’t Call for Murdering ICE Agents

By Andy Metzger State House News Service A Cambridge man who allegedly repeatedly posted online about his desire to "slit" the throat of Arizona U.S. Senator John McCain caught the attention of federal authorities when he Tweeted an offer to pay someone to kill immigration agents.

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GOP Candidates Take Tongs To Elizabeth Warren – And Save A Little for Each Other

Geoff Diehl would vote to repeal Obamacare if he is elected to the U.S. Senate, while fellow GOP candidates John Kingston and Beth Lindstrom want changes in it but won't commit to repeal. Obamacare was one of a handful of issues that divided the candidates during an

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Democrats Scrambling To Find New Taxes in Massachusetts Governor’s Race

By Michael P. Norton STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE When the state's highest court on June 18 knocked off the 2018 ballot a proposed surtax on the wealthy the court also torpedoed a core element of the campaign platforms of the two Democrats running for governor this year, Jay

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New Hampshire Democrats Purge Bill Clinton

The New Hampshire Democratic Party is ditching former President Bill Clinton from the name of the party's annual fund-raising dinner, less than two years after he was first honored. The Kennedy-Clinton Dinner, as the event was known in 2016 and 2017, will now be called the Eleanor Roosevelt

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Longtime Republican Survivor Margaret Heckler Dies, 87

Former U.S. Representative Margaret Heckler (R-Wellesley) died Monday, August 6 in Virginia. She was 87. A moderate Republican, the former Margaret Mary O'Shaughnessy championed the Equal Rights Amendment but also opposed abortion.

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Lindstrom Slams Elizabeth Warren As Strident, Questions GOP Senate Opponents’ Commitment To GOP

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Beth Lindstrom is supporting President Donald Trump's tough trade policies, provided that tariffs don't last long. "On the tariffs, I say:  I believe in free trade but fair trade. So I think the president's ultimate goal is to