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Vermont Department of Health Urges People To Not Say ‘Son’ and ‘Daughter’ For Sake of Inclusion

Don't say "son" and "daughter" because those terms are not inclusive enough, the Vermont Department of Health recently said. Vermont's public health agency is under fire over a Facebook post where it urged its state's residents to stop saying "

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Immigration Shaping Up As Hot Topic In Warren-Deaton Race

By Sam Drysdale State House News Service

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Federal Immigration Authorities Arrest Haitian Illegal Charged With Child Molestation In Mansfield

Federal immigration authorities recently apprehended an 18-year-old Haitian illegal immigrant charged with sexually assaulting a child in Massachusetts. Offices from the Boston field office of Enforcement and Removal Operations arrested Akim Marc Desire in Attleboro on Friday, August 30, according to a press release from U.S. Immigration and Customs

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Maura Healey Picks New Superintendent From Outside Massachusetts State Police Ranks Following Karen Read Scandal

By Sam Drysdale State House News Service Governor Maura Healey used the new powers afforded to her under law and picked the retired second-in-command of the New Jersey State Police to take over as the next superintendent and colonel of the Massachusetts State Police. Geoffrey Noble, who retired as New

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Catholic Hospitals To Be Sold To Secular Entities, Almost Ending Catholic Acute Health Care In Eastern Massachusetts

The end of Catholic acute health care in eastern Massachusetts is in sight, as a bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of four nominally Catholic hospitals formerly run by the Archdiocese of Boston. The current owner, Steward Health Care System LLC, filed for bankruptcy on May 6, and is in

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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey Denies Wanting To Be U.S. Attorney General, Blames Trump For Migrants Surge

Governor Maura Healey told Massachusetts reporters that she doesn't want to be attorney general of the United States – days after not quite saying that on national television. Healey, a Democrat, who is in her first term as governor, was asked Sunday, September 1 on CBS's Face

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South Shore Bartender’s Case Against Tipped Minimum Wage Ballot Question Going Viral

A South Shore restaurant worker is going viral on social media after she made the case against a November 2024 ballot question. MaryKathryn McLaughlin, a bartender at Mia Regazza in Abington and Marshfield, both south of Boston, urged people to vote against Question 5 in Massachusetts this November in an

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Massachusetts Lawmakers Won’t Campaign Against DiZoglio Audit-The-Legislature Ballot Question

By Bruce Mohl CommonWealth Beacon Massachusetts House and Senate leaders do not intend to mount a campaign against a ballot question giving the state auditor the power to audit the Legislature.