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U.S. Representative Stephen Lynch has long had a reputation for being the least crazy of Massachusetts's nine Democratic congressmen. He initially opposed Obamacare, for instance, when he correctly discerned that union members in his base were going to get shafted by it when they lost their private
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Longtime taxpayer advocate Chip Faulkner died Friday, May 24. He was 73. Faulkner had been suffering from pancreatic cancer for the past 15 months, said his brother, Donald Faulkner. He died at a hospice in the area.
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Give the New York Times credit for publishing, earlier this month, a long investigative piece about the strange enthusiasm of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders for the communist strongman Daniel Ortega, who ruled Nicaragua in the 1980s and is in power there again today. It bears remembering, though, that the
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About 65 percent of residents in Massachusetts oppose letting 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds vote in federal elections and only 29 percent support it, a newly released poll found. The vast majority of residents polled said teen-agers at that age aren't mature enough, don't know enough, or don&
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Brown University's student protesters have done heroic things despite an administration that often isn't on board for constructive change, a graduating senior told a commencement crowd Sunday. Ruth Scott Miller, of Anchorage, Alaska, who describes herself as part Dena'ina Athabaskan (an Alaska indigenous tribe)
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U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi received the 2019 Profile in Courage award at John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston on Sunday, May 19. She was praised "for putting the national interest above her party's interest." Whatever she did or did
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In the final two readings of a recent Saturday's Torah portion (Acharei Mos (after the death)), G-d told the Hebrews that incest, bestiality, and homosexuality were prohibited sexual activities and that the Canaanite nations defiled themselves by engaging in these forbidden and abominable practices. Refraining from engaging in
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Joe Biden still has the big smile. He's physically smaller, the same way that Bill Clinton is these days, the way that it's hard to tell whether it's because he's in better shape, or he's shrunken with age, or it&
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