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Over the last century, Massachusetts has bucked national trends by moving away from county government. While county government prevails in over 45 states, the Commonwealth has doubled down on a model of local home rule and a strong, centralized state government — bypassing and, in the case of eight of the
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By Matt Murphy State House News Service
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Cambridge) says she plans to run for a third term in the Senate — not for president — in 2024. Warren says she won't run for the Democratic Party's nomination for president of the United States, as she did in 2020, but wants
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By Katie Lannan State House News Service
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A nondenominational Protestant church in New Bedford is asking a federal judge to throw out the governor's coronavirus limitations on capacity and prohibition of gatherings after church services, saying the rules for churches in Massachusetts are more restrictive than what the state requires of businesses and other activities.
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What does racial justice look like? If you're U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Dorchester), it could be more black babies being aborted.
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A member of the Worcester School Committee who voted for a comprehensive sex education curriculum that drew stiff opposition from some parents said some of the public comments against it amount to hate speech. Tracy O'Connell Novick, whose successful 2019 candidacy was endorsed by Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund
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There seems to be some confusion about the meaning of the words "Jim Crow" these days. Many of the same people who would reduce our country's history almost entirely to its racial sins, and particularly its historic mistreatment of blacks, seem not to appreciate what "
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