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A Maine state representative is thanking God for his unlikely escape from beneath a 40-foot lobster boat after a rogue wave flipped it over. State Representative Billy Bob Faulkingham (R-Winter Harbor) was approaching Winter Harbor along the northeast coast of Maine on Friday, September 15 in about 50 feet of
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By Colin Young State House News Service
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Nikki Haley plans to do some heavy campaigning in the Granite State this week. The Republican presidential candidate, who served as governor of South Carolina and later as the United States ambassador to the United Nations, has three campaign events scheduled for Thursday, September 21 in New Hampshire.
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An Athol resident who launched a third-party U.S. Senate campaign earlier this year has died. Lou Marino, 48, died Monday, September 11, according to his obituary. The obituary said that he died unexpectedly "after being stricken ill."
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Massachusetts state agencies will no longer be allowed to buy single-use plastic bottles, Governor Maura Healey announced in a speech at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York on Monday. "In government, we have an obligation to stop contributing to this damage and chart a better path forward,"
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Creating a Women's Rights History Trail will help increase tourism in Massachusetts, a state legislator said. In May 2022, Governor Charlie Baker signed into law a bill creating a Women's Rights History Trail Task Force to come up with a "program … designating properties and sites
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Former Massachusetts governor Jane Swift says she does not want to see a rematch of the 2020 presidential election. Instead, the moderate Republican wants to see both parties nominate different candidates.
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Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie already has an exit plan for the 2024 Republican presidential primary. Christie said that if he does not finish in the top four in the first few states, including New Hampshire, he will drop out.