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Vice President Kamala Harris is coming to New Hampshire for a campaign this week. The Democratic presidential nominee plans to be in the Granite State on Wednesday, September 4, according to WMUR. However, the location and time of the event are not yet public, the report said.
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Massachusetts residents overwhelmingly want transparency in state government, a new Pioneer Institute poll conducted by Emerson College found. The poll found that 80 percent of registered voters favor eliminating the exemption from the state public records law currently claimed by the Massachusetts Legislature, governor, and state Supreme Judicial Court, advocating
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By Alison Kuznitz State House News Service
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By Chris Lisinski State House News Service Bay Staters will pick Republican candidates to challenge U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Congressman Stephen Lynch, fill an open Governor's Council seat, and settle a few intriguing court clerk races when they head to the polls on Tuesday, September 3.
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Kamala Harris has been vice president for three-and-a-half years, but she's still working through her policy platform for the presidential election that is about two months away, according to U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont). Sanders said that Harris is doing a good job and defended her lack
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U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-Malden) endorsed a democratic socialist this week. Markey endorsed current state representative Erika Uyterhoeven (D-Somerville) in her 27th Middlesex Democratic primary against Kathleen Hornby, a self-described progressive who doesn't identify as a socialist.
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Switchblades are now legal to carry in Massachusetts because a state law banning them violates the right to keep and bear arms, the state's highest court said. Gun-rights decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court in recent years that confirm an individual right to keep and bear arms
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Federal immigration authorities have arrested a Mexican illegal immigrant who is wanted for aggravated homicide in his home country. Officers from the Hartford office of Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston's office arrested the 42-year-old illegal immigrant in Seymour, Connecticut, on August 20, authorities said.