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State Representative Peter Durant will soon be state Senator Peter Durant, now that he has won a special election in central Massachusetts. Durant (R-Worcester) will become the fourth Republican in the Massachusetts Senate, against 36 Democrats, for a ratio of one-to-nine.
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Planned high-voltage cables bringing electricity from future wind turbines in the Atlantic Ocean shouldn't be put under public beaches and neighborhood streets on the south side of Cape Cod, a newspaper columnist says. The columnist says he is worried about electromagnetic radiation and leaks.
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Ohio voters have approved an amendment to the state constitution making abortion legal through fetal viability, which state law says is around 22 to 24 weeks. The amendment passed Tuesday by 57 to 43 percent, according to the Ohio Secretary of State's office.
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By Colin A. Young State House News Service
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Thomas Koch won re-election as mayor of Quincy by 10 points Tuesday night. Koch, a former Democrat who left the party over abortion, turned away a challenge from a city councilor who made abortion an issue in the campaign.
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State Auditor Diana DiZoglio says she is within striking distance of the number of signatures she needs to bring a ballot question asking voters to give her explicit authority to audit the Massachusetts Legislature. DiZoglio told State House News Service on Monday, November 6 that she has about 50,000
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Town officials in Truro are scrutinizing recent voter registrations of property owners in the Cape Cod town who also live elsewhere, holding hearings to determine if the registrations are valid. A group called the Truro Part-time Resident Taxpayers Association has encouraged people who own summer homes in the town to
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After a slapshot from a boy injured one of her teammates, a captain of the Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School field hockey team wrote a letter to the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association calling for change. In its 2-1 loss to Swampscott in the MIAA Division 3 Round of 32 matchup against