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Vermont voters want their state's liberal Republican governor and democratic socialist federal senator to seek re-election this year. Fifty-eight percent of Vermonters want Governor Phil Scott to seek a fifth two-year term, while just 30 percent don't; 12 percent are undecided, according to a University of
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By Jennifer Smith CommonWealth Beacon Six years since Massachusetts opened the first legal recreational marijuana stores on the East Coast, residents are still by and large pleased with cannabis legalization. But they aren't taking a lax stance on regulations.
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By Alison Kuznitz State House News Service
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Welfare fraud continues to be a problem in Massachusetts. Investigators in state Auditor Diana DiZoglio's office found nearly $2.9 million worth of public benefits fraud from October 2023 through December 2023, according to a press release from her office. Most of that welfare fraud occurred via MassHealth,
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The Massachusetts legislature and Governor Maura Healey put a new restriction on the state's emergency shelter system, but it won't fix the problem. While pouring another $426 million into the system, on Thursday state legislators and the governor also imposed a nine-month limit on how long
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By Michael P. Norton State House News Service The Massachusetts House of Representatives voted 117-36 and the Massachusetts Senate 29-9 to approve a supplemental budget steering $251 million more into the family shelter system and calling for new limits on how long families may stay in shelters. The agreement announced
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A former Berklee College of Music student from the People's Republic of China was sentenced to nine months in federal prison this week for stalking and threatening a person who posted fliers around campus in support of democracy in China. Xiaolei Wu, 26, was also sentenced by U.
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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is not happy with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Sanders took issue with Netanyahu's position that anti-Semitism is a driving force for opposition to Israel's actions in its war against Gaza, according to The Independent.