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Maura Healey took to X (formerly Twitter) today to wish Massachusetts a happy Kwanzaa. "Happy Kwanzaa, Massachusetts! Sending my warmest wishes for a happy holiday and light, love, and unity in the year ahead," Healey wrote on Tuesday, December 26.
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The Massachusetts unemployment rate saw a slight increase in November, reaching 2.9 percent, up from the revised October rate of 2.8 percent, according to State House News Service. Despite this uptick, the state has maintained a jobless rate below 3 percent for the seventh consecutive month. In comparison,
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'Tis the day before Christmas, and believing Christians are thinking about Jesus. They also should be thinking about Mary the mother of Jesus, and what they can learn from her.
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The New Hampshire presidential primary is now just four weeks away. The primary is set to take place on Tuesday, January 23, 2024, eight days after the Iowa Caucuses.
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A Boston Globe columnist is defending Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's "Electeds of Color" party. "There was outrage when the invite mistakenly went out to the entire Boston City Council, not just the six councilors of color," the Boston Globe's Shirley Leung wrote
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When Great Barrington police received a call earlier this month that a middle school teacher had handed students a book depicting animated sex acts, a plainclothes officer visited the school. The officer could not locate the book. Now, the department is apologizing for sending anyone at all.
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Elizabeth Warren is using her platform to defend access to abortion pills, criticizing "right-wing extremists" for trying to ban mifepristone, an abortion pill. "Understand this: overturning Roe v. Wade was never simply about leaving abortion policy to the states," Warren said in a post on X
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A New Hampshire newspaper publisher who ran political ads the state attorney general's office claimed were illegal has been fined $620 by a judge. Deb Paul, publisher of the Londonderry Times and the former Nutfield News, was convicted December 7 on misdemeanor charges of failing to identify political