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A committee of the state legislature plans to hold hearings on a few bills that would increase vaccination requirements in Massachusetts — and one that would loosen them. The Joint Committee on Public Health plans to hold hearings at the Massachusetts State House in Gardiner Auditorium from 9 a.m. to
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By Chris Lisinski State House News Service
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An electrical fire in the basement of the Massachusetts State House on Tuesday, July 18, led to an evacuation of the building. The fire was discovered at 2:12 p.m., according to Massachusetts State Police, reports NBC Boston.
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Massachusetts U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter yesterday to the federal Securities and Exchange Commission, pushing the commission to investigate Tesla. Warren wrote that the investigation would be justified due to "conflicts of interest, misappropriation of corporate assets, and other negative impacts to Tesla shareholders," according
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Former vice president Mike Pence plans to be in the Granite State this week. The Republican presidential candidate will be doing four public events, according to media reports.
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Should Massachusetts residents go to prison for possessing fentanyl test strips? A bill (S.926/H.1736) on Beacon Hill would eliminate that penalty, as other states have in recent years.
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A small airplane was on its way from Westchester, New York to West Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard this past weekend when the one-year-short-of-being-an-octogenarian pilot suffered a medical emergency on final approach, requiring a Connecticut woman who is not a pilot to take over the craft. The woman crashed the
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U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) is set to appear at an event this evening with Jon Huntsman, a Republican and former governor of Utah. Many Americans are "exceedingly frustrated by the growing divide in our political parties and toxic political rhetoric from our elected leaders" and