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The Massachusetts Governor's Council plans to interview Governor Maura Healey's former longtime romantic partner next week in a confirmation hearing for the state's highest court. Gabrielle Wolohojian, 63, is a member of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, the state's second highest court.
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Twelve whole hours. That's how long more than 30 pro-Palestinian Harvard students participated in a hunger strike on Friday last week to show their solidarity with 17 Brown University students who participated in an eight-day hunger strike to pressure Brown Corporation to divest from Israel on Friday, February
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A Massachusetts state legislative committee has voted to recommend a bill that would replace merit-based admissions at public vocational high schools with a blind lottery, supporters of the bill said. The Joint Education on Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature reported the bill out of committee, according to a press release
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The Massachusetts Republican Party wanted the state legislature to call for a special election in the Sixth Plymouth House District, but there won't be one. The state representative seat is vacant. The former occupant, Josh Cutler, a Democrat, was named as an undersecretary in the Massachusetts Executive Office
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Brookline High School has a transgender athlete on its girls' track team, but the athlete did not compete at the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association state championship meet on Thursday for unknown reasons. Senior Chloe Barnes, a male who helped Brookline win an MIAA Division 1 state championship last year
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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has nominated a former longtime romantic partner to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The nominee, Gabrielle Wolohojian, 63, who owned the four-bedroom condominium in Charlestown where she and Healey lived as a same-sex couple for more than a decade, has served on the Massachusetts Appeals Court
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Milton voters have rejected a re-zoning proposal that would have increased density in the town. The vote was 4,346 for Yes to 5,115 for No – or 46 percent to 54 percent. Milton Town Clerk Susan Galvin announced the results on a live YouTube feed at about 10:20
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Some left-wing politicians in Massachusetts are totally in favor of housing illegal immigrants – somewhere else. The latest example: Boston city councilor Julia Mejia, who says she doesn't want more of them in Boston.