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Massachusetts residents generally support the state's right-to-shelter law, but not everyone who backs it wants it to be open to migrants. While 75 percent of residents support the law and just 19 percent oppose it, support drops when asking people if they support it for migrants, according to
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State officials can start turning away families from emergencies shelters when they run out of space, now that a state judge has denied a request to force the state to provide places for them to live. That may happen as soon as this week.
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As U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Cambridge) seeks another term in office, many Massachusetts voters say that politicians like her are too old to serve in the U.S. Senate. Warren will be 75 years old next year, and she wants another six years in the U.S. Senate. If
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By Colin A. Young State House News Service
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One of President Joe Biden's presidential primary challengers plans to be in the Bay State this month. Progressive Democrat Marianne Williamson, a former pastor and spiritual psychotherapist, is scheduled to appear at an event hosted by the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) supports sending foreign aid to Israel, but introduced a caveat recently. Sanders said he would not support it if it is used on weaponry that kills civilians in the Gaza Strip.
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Probation officers visited the homes of sex offenders on probation in several cities in Massachusetts on Halloween to make sure their front door lights were off and that they weren't handing out candy to children. The program is known as Operation Lights Out.
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