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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.
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A Republican running for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts has backed several progressive Democrats for elected office in recent years. Quincy City Council president Ian Cain has been a registered Republican since February 29, 2024, a Quincy City Clerk employee told NewBostonPost by telephone on Friday, August 30. Before that,
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By Chris Lisinski State House News Service
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Former President Donald Trump offered an in-vitro fertilization proposal last week — and Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey says don't buy it. Trump recently said he wants to force insurance companies to pay for in vitro fertilization or have the federal government pay for in vitro fertilization.