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Several Massachusetts towns might institute grocery bag fees soon, if the Massachusetts legislature permits it. State legislators are considering bills that would allow the towns of Acton, Concord, Fairhaven, Lincoln, and Sudbury to establish check-out bag fees. The bill for Concord allows a 15 cents or higher fee per bag.
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Two bills before the Massachusetts legislature would allow the towns of Gosnold and Westport to change the name of the elected body that oversees day-to-day affairs from the "Board of Selectmen" to "Select Board." "The members of the selectboard, previously known as selectmen, shall be
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There is more than a little overlap between the Democratic Party and the mainstream media in Massachusetts. As NewBostonPost has previously reported, members of the media have donated to Democratic politicians.
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The National Men's March to end abortion is scheduled to take place in Boston on Saturday, November 4. "There is a man connected to every abortion," the organizers' description of the event says. "Men are a big part of the problem. It's
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By Chris Lisinski State House News Service
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It's not an early primary voting state, but one Democratic presidential candidate went there anyway. Marianne Williamson, a former pastor and spiritual psychotherapist, who is primarying President Joe Biden from his left, did a few campaign events in Vermont on Wednesday, August 22, according to her campaign'
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Bay Staters have until Monday, August 28 to offer public comment on the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education's proposed health and physical education for the state's public schools. After that, the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is supposed to consider this feedback,
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Abortion Truth Campaign, a pro-abortion advocacy group, is pushing Worcester and other Massachusetts municipalities to pass local legislation restricting pro-life crisis pregnancy centers. "As cities and towns in Massachusetts grapple this summer with a growing number of patients traveling to the Commonwealth for abortion care – along with an increasingly