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A columnist for The Boston Globe recently reported a story about a woman traveling from Connecticut to Vermont to use the state's physician-assisted suicide law — except he made himself part of the story. The story notes that to take advantage of Vermont's physician-assisted suicide law, someone
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At the beginning of January, commissioner Robert Goldstein of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health issued a memorandum to all Massachusetts health care providers, supposedly to remind them about their licensure obligations. But to careful readers, it was immediately apparent that the letter represented a thinly veiled threat against the
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Several Massachusetts state troopers conspired to give passing scores for commercial driver's licenses to would-be truck drivers who failed their road test in exchange for goods and services, federal prosecutors say. State troopers often sent text messages after the test describing the applicant as a "mess,"
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The Newton Teachers Association entered the eighth day of its illegal wildcat strike on Tuesday, but Massachusetts Republican Party chairman Amy Carnevale wants to see the teachers get back to work. Carnevale said Newton teachers are playing politics with kids' educations, which she said is wrong.
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The average price for a gallon of gas in Massachusetts has not moved over the past week, according to AAA Northeast. The price has held steady at $3.11 per gallon, which is 11 cents cheaper than it was one month ago and 32 cents cheaper than it was at
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By Chris Lisinski State House News Service
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For the vast majority of people, the experience of Covid lockdowns is past, a thing almost of distant memory. But for some, it lingers. Michelle Efendi, 37, a mother of four who lived in Randolph, Massachusetts at the time, protested against vaccine passports and mask mandates at the Massachusetts State
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A legislative committee in Maine has killed a bill that would have given a state court "temporary emergency jurisdiction" over a child if "it is necessary in an emergency to protect the child … because the child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental