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Russell Holmes Supports Term Limits for Massachusetts House Speaker; Ron Mariano Doesn’t
By Chris Van Buskirk State House News Service
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Nantucket Memorial Airport Featured In Rand Paul’s 2020 Festivus Waste Report
U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) continued his annual Festivus tradition this year — and gave Massachusetts a shoutout in the process. Each year, Paul pays tribute to the fictitious December 23 holiday from the TV show Seinfeld with his own "Airing of Grievances." On the Seinfeld episode called
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Lottery Tickets Aren’t The Best Christmas Present
When it comes to Christmas presents, it's possible that the Massachusetts State Lottery makes them — but that doesn't make giving the Lottery's product to friends and family is a good idea. During the 2019 fiscal year, Bay Staters spent more than $5.5 billion
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Charlie Baker Signs Carbon-Fee-on-Fuel Memorandum of Understanding With Rhode Island and Connecticut
Gasoline and diesel could soon be more expensive in Massachusetts. On Monday, Massachusetts Republican governor Charlie Baker, Rhode Island Democratic governor Gina Raimondo, Connecticut Democratic governor Ned Lamont, and Washington D.C. Democratic mayor Muriel Bowser signed the Transportation and Climate Initiative memorandum of understanding. Several other states reportedly may
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Carbon Fee on Fuel Would Cost Massachusetts Households Hundreds of Dollars a Year, New Study Says
The Massachusetts economy took a hit as a result of government restrictions on businesses amid the coronavirus pandemic. Would enacting the Transportation & Climate Initiative carbon fee on fuel make it worse?
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Democrats For Life of America Condemns Two Democratic State Reps For ROE Act Votes
Two members of the Massachusetts Legislature that Democrats For Life previously supported have been condemned by the organization for supporting an abortion expansion bill. Democrats For Life of America, an organization that supports pro-life Democrats and what it calls "a broad spectrum of life ethics," opposes abortion expansion
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MassGOP Chairman Jim Lyons Condemns Republican State Rep’s Support for Abortion Bill
The Massachusetts Republican Party does not support the abortion expansion bill on Beacon Hill, but one GOP state representative does. The party vigorously opposes the bill. The Massachusetts Republican Party chairman Jim Lyons calls it an infanticide bill. Dictionary.com's three definitions of infanticide are: "the act
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Massachusetts Senate Rejects Governor’s Abortion Bill Changes on Parental Consent
Massachusetts Republican Governor Charlie Baker wanted to make a change to the abortion expansion bill, but the Massachusetts Senate rejected it. Baker, although a supporter of legal abortion, does not support the abortion bill as written, arguing that 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds should continue to have to get permission from a
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