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A company planning to build 84 turbines off the coast of Martha's Vineyard is asking experts to come up with ways to prevent ships at sea and the proposed wind farm from harming endangered right whales. "Vineyard Wind is seeking technology firms or academic institutions to provide
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A Democratic state senator in Rhode Island who supports legal abortion provided the one-vote majority to kill a bill in committee that would have removed most restrictions on late-term abortions, saying the bill "goes well beyond Roe v. Wade." The Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the bill
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What happens when you establish a 15-member commission whose goal is to represent various geographical, political, and demographic backgrounds? If you're in Massachusetts, you appoint a group that tries to represent everyone. Everyone, that is, except Republicans.
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President Donald Trump calls the indictment of President Barack Obama's White House counsel Gregory Craig "a really big story." That it is, but probably not precisely in the way that Trump means it.
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By Matt Murphy State House News Service The wealth tax on income over $1 million received just one vote from a Republican lawmaker last week in favor of advancing the amendment to a full debate in June, but Governor Charlie Baker, the leader of the party, is not eager to
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By Matt Murphy STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE With tax collections pouring in but Democrats still on the hunt for new revenue, the possibility of repealing tax breaks for specialized industries like aviation or the chance to apply new taxes to unhealthy, sugary drinks dangles like low-hanging fruit before many lawmakers.
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Massachusetts legislators should roll back the state's sales tax to 5 percent, where it was for decades until the state Legislature increased it in 2009, an anti-tax group says. The state's sales tax is currently 6.25 percent, with a 0.75 percent local option that
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THE SETTING These are difficult times that should challenge us all, with our outlook, and hope, e'en our spirits subdued From the ceaseless, relentless, unpleasant campaigning of spoiled adult children with behavior quite crude, As if they are hostages captive to shock and sheer hatred, they make a
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