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Massachusetts is being taken advantage of due to the lack of a residency requirement on the state's right-to-shelter law, a state legislator from Cape Cod recently said. State Representative Steve Xiarhos (R-Barnstable), who supports amending the right-to-shelter law in Massachusetts to include a residency requirement, said the law
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John Kerry received a prestigious honor from the White House this week. President Joe Biden announced 19 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients on Friday, May 3, including Kerry.
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The Massachusetts Family Institute has announced a change in leadership. Ian Huyett, who had served as president of the organization since September 2023, has accepted a new role at Cornerstone, a conservative family values organization in New Hampshire, as its associate director.
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Federal immigration authorities arrested a Guatemalan illegal immigrant convicted of first-degree manslaughter in Connecticut. Enforcement and Removal Operations deportation officers arrested the 35-year-old man in Somers, a Connecticut town of about 2,200 on the Massachusetts border, about 12 miles southeast of Springfield, Massachusetts, after state officials released him after
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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey recently told business leaders that she doesn't support raising taxes — despite announcing a proposal earlier this year that would raise taxes in at least some places in the state. While giving a speech to the New England Council at the Boston Harbor Hotel on
Longtime Boston Bruins play-by-play broadcaster Jack Edwards called his last game Thursday night. Edwards, 67, is retiring because of an undiagnosed speech problem that causes him to slur words. His last call was Game 6 of the first round playoff series between the Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs, which the
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By Bruce Mohl CommonWealth Beacon A special committee of eight Massachusetts House and Senate lawmakers on Wednesday issued a series of reports on the state's pending ballot questions and in each case determined that the proposals ought not to be approved as new laws by the Legislature.
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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) worries that younger Americans are not anti-Trump enough. Sanders said that while he understands their frustrations with the failings of President Joe Biden, he still wants people to vote for Biden.