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Charlie Baker Staying Optimistic On Tax Relief
By Chris Lisinski State House News Service
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Massachusetts Democratic Attorney General Candidate Supports Defunding The Police
Should we defund the police? One Democratic attorney general candidate in Massachusetts thinks so.
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Retired Lexington Cop Can’t Add Vacation Pay To Pension Calculation, State’s Highest Court Rules
Yearly payments in lieu of unused vacation days can't add to a state pension calculation, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. The decision prevents a retired police officer from collecting about $2,700 a year in additional pension – and also stops other public employees in Massachusetts who
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Fewer People Are Moving As Interest Rates, Rents Rise
Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. By Tim Henderson Most people move during the spring and summer months, but many would-be movers stayed put this May and June amid higher interest rates and rising rents, according to change-of-address data from the U.S. Postal Service.
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The Perils of Not Paying Property Taxes In Massachusetts Illustrated In Bourne Case
The heir of a home owner who didn't pay full property taxes for a year can't get the property back now that the town has foreclosed on it, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled Friday. Nor does the heir get anything from the value of the house
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Rockport School Committee Canceled Field Trip To Gordon College Because of Its Policy On Homosexuality
This past June, Rockport school officials planned a seventh-grade field trip to a rock gym and challenge course day camp at Gordon College, a Christian school of higher learning in Wenham. But the trip never happened.
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Less Demand Fuels National Gas Price Drop To Below $4 Per Gallon
By Richie Malouf The Center Square
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Reparations? Anti-Racist Training? Amherst Officials Demanding Changes In Town’s Police Department Over Late-Night Interaction With Teen-Agers
A late-night interaction between police and teen-agers in Amherst over a noise complaint and a broken-down car has led some town officials to demand reparations for victims of police harassment. The town's Community Safety & Social Justice Committee has called for creating a victims compensation fund under the
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