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It's becoming a little bit more difficult to book a hotel in Massachusetts. That's because hotels across the state are not only being used to house migrants, including illegal immigrants, on the taxpayers' dime due to the state's right-to-shelter law, which lacks a
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Some Somerville residents and city officials want utility companies to stop replacing natural gas pipes and repair them instead, in hopes of eventually getting rid of them altogether. The Somerville Public Utilities and Public Works Committee, a subcommittee of the Somerville City Council, heard a presentation this week from an
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By Sam Drysdale State House News Service Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey doubled down Monday on maintaining privacy for her and her family, after her administration reportedly refused to disclose where she went when she left the state for four days last month.
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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 103 (Dorchester, Massachusetts) endorsed President Joe Biden's re-election bid this week. "President Biden and Vice President Harris are the leaders working people need now," said Lou Antonellis, business manager and financial secretary of Local 103 IBEW, in a press release
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Gasoline prices are going up because more people are buying it, there's less of it stored up, and there are conflicts in some places where it's drilled. The price of oil is now more than $80 for one barrel, and it might go even higher. In
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Gender exists on a spectrum, and more than two genders exist, a curriculum at Sharon Middle School School says. The sixth-grade health curriculum at Sharon Middle School uses the genderbread person to teach this claim as fact, rather than the common understanding that there are two sexes, male and female,
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State financial aid forms in English and Spanish are now available to students in the country illegally who attending or planning to attend public or private colleges in Massachusetts. "We are taking quite a bit of care to make certain that if a student starts an application and does
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By Sam Drysdale State House News Service