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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
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U.S. Representative Richard Neal (D-Springfield) says he thinks President Joe Biden needs to tout his economic record during his re-election bid. Neal said the problem with Biden is his administration has not done a good enough job touting it.
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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) admitted something this week. Sanders said that he does not think the Democratic Party has used its power to do much to improve the lives of the American people — and that he understands why Republicans don't vote for them.
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By Bethany Blankley The Center Square Contributor