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By Matt Murphy STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE The "grand bargain" law signed by Governor Charlie Baker last week makes a summer sales tax holiday a permanent annual fixture on the calendars of shoppers and business owners in Massachusetts.
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Kingston is criticizing Senator Elizabeth Warren's call to get rid of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, accusing her of pandering "to the far left." Warren called for eliminating the federal agency that enforces immigration law during a rally
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Elizabeth Warren, meet Clarence Thomas. Senator Warren, a Democrat of Massachusetts, was in the headlines recently for joining with Senator Cory Gardner, a Republican who represents Colorado, to introduce the Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States Act. That legislation would, as Warren put it in a tweet, "let
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In this country you can do whatever you want with your 15 minutes of fame – even if it's a yearly 15 minutes of fame. But if you lie about what you're doing with it, the press is supposed to call you on it.
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By Colin A. Young State House News Service With a raft of advocates and lawmakers huddled around the desk in his ceremonial office, Governor Charlie Baker on Tuesday signed a law to allow family members to petition the courts to suspend gun ownership rights of someone they believe to be
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By Andy Metzger and Chris Triunfo STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE If State Police stole from the public till by committing overtime fraud, they should be denied a pension, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker said on Monday, reacting to the arrest of three current and former State Police officials last week.
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Clarence Thomas is the only member of the U.S. Supreme Court on record as supporting overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion throughout the country, an Associated Press news story points out. That leads some observers to think that even if President Donald Trump replaces pro-Roe
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President Donald Trump's occasional claim that the press is "the enemy of the American people" is over the top. It also had nothing to do with the shootings at the Capital Gazette newspaper office in Annapolis, Maryland Thursday.
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