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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
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Five former chairmen of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education wrote an op-ed criticizing both those willing to leave Massachusetts public education as it is and those who wish to abolish graduation requirements. "It is troubling that education reform is threatened from a couple of different directions,
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Drag Queen Story Hour is scheduled to take place once again at Duxbury Free Library on Saturday, July 15. The library hosted a similar event in June 2022.
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Stanley Cup winner with the 2023 champions Vegas Golden Knights and Massachusetts native Jack Eichel brought the trophy to the rink where he started playing hockey earlier today. The former Chelmsford kid and Boston University alumnus first started skating at Skate 3, a rink in Tyngsboro, when he was 1
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Households where a married father is present are far wealthier than households where no father is present, a report from the Massachusetts Family Institute finds. The median annual income of a married couple household in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was $157,418 as of 2021, according to the report. That
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By Brent Addleman The Center Square
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Helping female military personnel get abortions is necessary to keep the U.S. military ready for action, U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley said. "In addition to full spectrum reproductive care being an essential human right – it is also a readiness imperative for our military," Pressley said on the
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A proposed bill in the Massachusetts legislature would lay the foundation for increasing the racial diversity of the Massachusetts judiciary. The bill seeks to establish a fifteen-member legislative commission "to study the potential for legislative action to increase racial diversity among the judiciary in the Commonwealth."