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Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson appears to have remained silent during her oath of office on Monday, January 1. After a video circulated on X (formerly Twitter) of the inauguration, council president Ruthzee Louijeune and the city's law department are asking her to take it again. After
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A new Harvard course called "Taylor Swift and Her World" is so popular that its professor is publicly calling for more teaching assistants. "We will learn how to think about illicit affairs, and hoaxes, champagne problems and incomplete closure," the course description says.
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A tiny community in northern New Hampshire plans to continue its tradition of casting the first primary votes in the nation this year. All six residents of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire plan to cast their ballots at midnight in the Granite State's January 23, 2024 presidential primary, according
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Almost a month after it happened, the firestorm around an incident at a Great Barrington middle school is still raging. Yet no one has asked the obvious question or made the obvious point.
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Several 2024 events at the University of Vermont have a diversity theme. One such event is the "Inclusive Excellence Symposium," Campus Reform reported. The "Inclusive Excellence Symposium" provides sessions for university members to develop their skills in promoting "inclusive excellence" through "authentic dialogue,
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A group of Massachusetts voters have filed to remove Donald Trump from the ballot, attempting to replicate efforts in Colorado and Maine. The motion was filed by Free Speech For People and Massachusetts-based civil rights firm Lichten & Liss-Riordan. Free Speech For People is a non-profit advocacy group. Shannon Liss-Riordan
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A recent United Van Lines study found that Massachusetts was the seventh most moved-from state in the country. Now, a report from U-Haul says that it's worse, with Massachusetts only behind California for lost residents in the past year.
Culture
Imagine if over this past Columbus Day weekend then-Harvard president Claudine Gay had issued a statement along these lines: The killing and kidnapping of hundreds of innocent civilians by Hamas in Israel on Saturday, October 7 horrifies me. I condemn it.