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By Colin Young State House News Service The chief goal of the conference committee examining a proposed education bill on Beacon Hill is to dot the Is and cross the Ts on how the state will spend $1.5 billion more into public education over the next seven years. But
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An energy analyst says a late decision by the New York Attorney General to drop two of four fraud allegations against ExxonMobil in a lawsuit over climate change bodes ill for the Massachusetts Attorney General's case against the oil giant. On Thursday, November 7, a lawyer for the
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As surely as winter follows fall, Republican election victories are followed by unconstitutional attempts to restrict political speech. The Nixon presidency brought the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, which the U.S. Supreme Court partially struck down in Buckley v. Valeo. The George W. Bush presidency brought the Bipartisan
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By Matt Murphy State House News Service With House Speaker Robert DeLeo eyeing a vote in the coming weeks on new transportation revenue, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker on Monday said a "big increase" in the gas tax would be a non-starter for his administration.
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A further-left challenger of U.S. Representative Stephen Lynch says his past doubts about impeaching President Donald Trump should disqualify him from chairing the House committee that would coordinate that process. Brianna Wu, who lost to Lynch in 2018 but is challenging him again, released a video Thursday showing clips
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By Michael P. Norton State House News Service Massachusetts slipped to 36th among states in a business tax climate index released this week by a foundation that promotes lower tax burdens, raising questions about the state's business investment appeal.
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Several left-of-center student groups at Harvard College are calling for a boycott of the student newspaper because a reporter asked a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman for comment about a rally on campus calling for the agency to be abolished. Editors of The Harvard Crimson maintain they were just
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A candidate for mayor of Brockton says he won't raise property taxes as much as state law allows if he is elected. Jimmy L. Pereira, an urban planner, made the pledge during a debate this past week.
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