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Ranked-choice voting supporters are trying to get a ballot question on the 2024 state ballot in Massachusetts, four years after state voters rejected it. Ranked choice voting, which comes into play when there are three or more candidates for an elected office, asks voters to rank their choices, if they
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The federal government will spend nearly $2 million to house newly-arrived migrant families in Massachusetts. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making the expenditure so the Bay State can expand shelter and transportation services for these migrants, Governor Maura Healey's administration announced.
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By Colin Young State House News Service
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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) plans to visit a neighboring state this week. Sanders is scheduled to speak at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire on Saturday, August 26, according to WMUR. The time of the event has not yet been
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James Perloff, a journalist and author of several books, plans to give a presentation titled "An Oligarchy Controls America — Fact or Conspiracy Theory?" in New Hampshire later this month. Perloff's description of the event on his web site says he will be "examining the evidence
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Catholic schools in central Massachusetts will be expected to reject transgender identity and homosexuality this upcoming school year. The Diocese of Worcester issued new policies regarding sexuality and transgender identity this week. Bishop Robert McManus, the bishop of Worcester, approved the plan in late June.
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By Alison Kuznitz State House News Service
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President Joe Biden has a commanding lead in the 2024 New Hampshire Democratic primary polling. Biden has 65 percent support among Democrats, according to an Emerson College poll released this week. That's a 53-point advantage over environmental attorney and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (12 percent) and