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By Andy Metzger STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE President Donald Trump's remarks about tossing a DNA test at U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren during a hypothetical debate have not sat well with some top Bay State Republicans, including one who is running to defeat the Cambridge Democrat.
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Since the disappointing results of the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress tests were made public on April 10, it has been puzzling that no one at the National Assessment Governing Board, including its chairman (former Governor John Engler of Michigan), has suggested that Common Core-aligned standards and tests might
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Maine Governor Paul LePage has vetoed a bill that would outlaw so-called "conversion therapy" aimed at changing the sexual orientation or gender identity of a minor, sending a blistering message to state legislators chiding them for not passing an unrelated bill that would have outlawed female genital mutilation.
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By Matt Murphy STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE The "grand bargain" law signed by Governor Charlie Baker last week makes a summer sales tax holiday a permanent annual fixture on the calendars of shoppers and business owners in Massachusetts.
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Kingston is criticizing Senator Elizabeth Warren's call to get rid of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, accusing her of pandering "to the far left." Warren called for eliminating the federal agency that enforces immigration law during a rally
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Elizabeth Warren, meet Clarence Thomas. Senator Warren, a Democrat of Massachusetts, was in the headlines recently for joining with Senator Cory Gardner, a Republican who represents Colorado, to introduce the Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States Act. That legislation would, as Warren put it in a tweet, "let
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In this country you can do whatever you want with your 15 minutes of fame – even if it's a yearly 15 minutes of fame. But if you lie about what you're doing with it, the press is supposed to call you on it.
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By Colin A. Young State House News Service With a raft of advocates and lawmakers huddled around the desk in his ceremonial office, Governor Charlie Baker on Tuesday signed a law to allow family members to petition the courts to suspend gun ownership rights of someone they believe to be
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