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Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly support transparency measures, according to a recent Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll. The poll found that 76.8 percent of Bay Staters think that the Massachusetts state legislature, governor's office, and judiciary should allow public records requests, while just 18 percent opposed the idea. Massachusetts
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A candidate for selectman in Dracut has made a campaign promise: the more followers he gets on Facebook, the more he will donate to the Dracut Food Pantry. Dave Martin made the announcement via a press release this week.
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The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind by Joseph Nocera and Bethany Lee McLean Penguin Random House 448 pages October 2023 This book describes the business aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the problems that resulted in multiple failures, both in
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A male transgender skier earned all-league honors in Maine this school year. Maine Coast Waldorf School sophomore Soren Stark-Chessa was named to the Western Maine Conference girls' Nordic skiing all-conference team for the winter 2023-2024 season, as The Lewiston Sun-Journal first reported.
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By Sam Drysdale State House News Service
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Cambridge city councilors are considering a resolution expressing support for students at Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who are protesting Israel's invasion of Gaza by living in tents on the campuses. Supporters of the resolution note that the protests on the Cambridge campuses have been
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By Sam Drysdale State House News Service Massachusetts House Speaker Ronald Mariano on Tuesday condemned the actions of a freshman Cape Cod lawmaker, after regulators found that state Representative Christopher Flanagan violated state campaign finance law and subsequently lied about it to officials.
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A bill that would legalize physician-assisted suicide has gotten a favorable vote from a second legislative committee, leading some who read the tea leaves of the Massachusetts Legislature to wonder if this is the year it passes. The state legislature's Joint Committee on Health Care Financing reported the