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By Sam Drysdale State House News Service Governor Maura Healey used the new powers afforded to her under law and picked the retired second-in-command of the New Jersey State Police to take over as the next superintendent and colonel of the Massachusetts State Police. Geoffrey Noble, who retired as New
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A pro-life conservative unseated an incumbent Republican state representative in Massachusetts this week. Carver planning board member and Coast Guard Veteran John Gaskey defeated state representative Susan Gifford (R-Wareham) in the Second Plymouth District Republican primary on Tuesday, September 3. No Democrat is on the ballot in the November general
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Attorney John Deaton of Swansea cruised to victory in the Massachusetts Republican primary for U.S. Senate on Tuesday. Deaton had 64.6 percent of the vote with 92 percent of the vote counted, according to the Associated Press. This gave him a substantial lead over Robert Antonellis of Somerville
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The end of Catholic acute health care in eastern Massachusetts is in sight, as a bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of four nominally Catholic hospitals formerly run by the Archdiocese of Boston. The current owner, Steward Health Care System LLC, filed for bankruptcy on May 6, and is in
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Governor Maura Healey told Massachusetts reporters that she doesn't want to be attorney general of the United States – days after not quite saying that on national television. Healey, a Democrat, who is in her first term as governor, was asked Sunday, September 1 on CBS's Face
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A South Shore restaurant worker is going viral on social media after she made the case against a November 2024 ballot question. MaryKathryn McLaughlin, a bartender at Mia Regazza in Abington and Marshfield, both south of Boston, urged people to vote against Question 5 in Massachusetts this November in an
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By Bruce Mohl CommonWealth Beacon Massachusetts House and Senate leaders do not intend to mount a campaign against a ballot question giving the state auditor the power to audit the Legislature.
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Former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh misses his old job, he recently said. The former U.S. Labor Secretary, who serves as the executive director of the National Hockey League Players' Association, served as Boston's mayor from January 2014 to March 2021.