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Reading instruction is one of the very few areas where it is not the case that "more research is needed." Education policy makers have had the theory and the evidence for decades. The central problem they face in providing effective reading instruction and a sound reading curriculum stems
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A Northampton resident who called police officers "violence workers" seven times while arguing against allowing the city's police department to accept a donation of $13,000 worth of ammunition from Walmart is standing by her statement. The issue came up last month when the general manager
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The essence of leadership is picking the right fights, and on the Border Wall, President Donald Trump has hit bullseye. The unwillingness of Democrats in Congress – and a fair number of Republicans – to approve a drop in the bucket of the federal budget to build a permanent barrier along much
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Taunton residents who don't want a 900-room hotel casino near their homes would be overridden if Congress passes a bill ending their legal challenge to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. U.S. Representative William Keating (D-Bourne) and U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III (D-Brookline) earlier this week filed
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Someday soon on Cape Cod it may be legal to buy an edible gummy bear laced with marijuana but illegal to buy a helium balloon. Something has gone wrong.
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The town of Orleans on Cape Cod is considering a ban on selling and releasing helium balloons. Selectmen voted this week to set a public hearing on a bylaw proposed by the town's Conservation Commission that would set a fine at $50 per offense.
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Editor's Note: Below is draft language for a proposed bylaw that would ban selling and releasing helium balloons in the the town of Orleans, Massachusetts, which is on Cape Cod. The language comes from the packet of documents for the Orleans Board of Selectmen meeting of Wednesday, January
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Christian Di Spigna has done a great service to citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: he has written a superb biography of Joseph Warren – the great Boston-based revolutionary leader, who was killed during the Battle of Bunker Hill. He titles the biography: Founding Martyr – The Life and Death of Dr.
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