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Rent control supporters flooded the Massachusetts State House on Tuesday, hoping to revive it more than 25 years after the state's voters killed it. Supporters filled hearing rooms A-1 and A-2 to their 230-person capacity and also gathered in the Great Hall and outside. They dominated testimony before
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Massachusetts voters shot it down 25 years ago, but some Democrats in the Massachusetts Legislature want rent control back. A legislative committee on Beacon Hill plans to consider a bill on Tuesday, January 14 that would once again legalize rent control in the state. Called "An Act Enabling Local
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Is it age-appropriate to introduce 12-year old children to anal sex? Is it medically accurate to encourage students to protect against sexually transmitted infections by using non-microwaveable Saran Wrap as a prophylactic for oral sex? Planned Parenthood thinks so, and so does the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education,
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In recent years, left-wing Democrats and so-called "progressives" have routinely labeled as racist some of America's greatest Founding Fathers and military leaders who were slaveholders – men such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Robert E. Lee. They have also demanded that statutes of these men be
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The Republican governor of Vermont and the Democratic governor of Connecticut poured cold water this week on a regional carbon-emissions fee that could increase gasoline prices by 5 to 17 cents a gallon – isolating Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, who supports the idea. The regional proposal, called the Transportation Climate Initiative,
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Elizabeth Warren wants to raise taxes if she's elected president, but usually hasn't chosen to pay more herself. Massachusetts state income tax forms allow taxpayers to pay a higher rate to help out the state government. But according to tax returns posted on Warren's
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Below-market-rate housing advocates want the Massachusetts Legislature to allow cities and towns to add up to a 2 percent transfer tax on higher-end real estate sales in order to build more so-called affordable housing. The fee would apply to sale prices above the statewide median sale price and to certain
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The new president of the Boston City Council wants to use a proposed increase in the state's gasoline tax to make public-transportation bus rides free throughout the city of Boston. "Let's find new ways to tackle old problems, like free MBTA buses to increase ridership
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