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By Gintautas Dumcius CommonWealth Beacon Campaign finance regulators kept coming back with a question for Chris Flanagan, a freshman House lawmaker who represents part of the Cape: Who is Jeanne Louise?
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What is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s political ideology? The independent presidential candidate described himself as a "classical liberal" in a message to his campaign email list.
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President Joe Biden is coming to Massachusetts in May. The president plans to attend three fund-raisers for the Biden Victory Fund on Tuesday, May 21, including one hosted by Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, according to Puck News.
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The Massachusetts fiscal year 2024 budget set aside $325 million for the state's emergency shelter system. However, the state has allocated more than $1 billion for it during the past year.
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College campuses should end pro-Gaza tent protests, U.S. Representative Seth Moulton (D-Salem) said. "Fundamentally, we live in a country that values freedom of speech. So that should be the baseline that you start with. But these protests in many cases have threatened the safety of Jewish students. They&
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Four Deep Sports Talk presented its annual basketball Players and Coaches of the Year awards and Hall of Fame awards this past weekend. The weekly radio show broadcast on WARA AM 1320 in Attleboro covers what the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association used to consider its south section. Brockton resident Dominic
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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.