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A South Shore restaurant worker is going viral on social media after she made the case against a November 2024 ballot question. MaryKathryn McLaughlin, a bartender at Mia Regazza in Abington and Marshfield, both south of Boston, urged people to vote against Question 5 in Massachusetts this November in an
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By Bruce Mohl CommonWealth Beacon Massachusetts House and Senate leaders do not intend to mount a campaign against a ballot question giving the state auditor the power to audit the Legislature.
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A Republican running for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts has backed several progressive Democrats for elected office in recent years. Quincy City Council president Ian Cain has been a registered Republican since February 29, 2024, a Quincy City Clerk employee told NewBostonPost by telephone on Friday, August 30. Before that,
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By Chris Lisinski State House News Service
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Massachusetts residents overwhelmingly want transparency in state government, a new Pioneer Institute poll conducted by Emerson College found. The poll found that 80 percent of registered voters favor eliminating the exemption from the state public records law currently claimed by the Massachusetts Legislature, governor, and state Supreme Judicial Court, advocating
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By Alison Kuznitz State House News Service
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By Chris Lisinski State House News Service Bay Staters will pick Republican candidates to challenge U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Congressman Stephen Lynch, fill an open Governor's Council seat, and settle a few intriguing court clerk races when they head to the polls on Tuesday, September 3.
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Switchblades are now legal to carry in Massachusetts because a state law banning them violates the right to keep and bear arms, the state's highest court said. Gun-rights decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court in recent years that confirm an individual right to keep and bear arms
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