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Someone Apparently Doesn’t Like the New Massachusetts Senate Budget
By Andy Metzger STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
Politics
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Nasty Woman Addresses Wellesley College Graduates
"In the years to come there will be trolls galore …" — Hillary Clinton
Commentary
New York Times Tax Coverage Goes Off the Rails
Binyamin Appelbaum is one of the more fair-minded and accurate reporters at the New York Times. For an example of his best work, one might look back to his reporting from Hazleton, Pennsylvania in October of 2016. So it was particularly dismaying to read Appelbaum's dispatch earlier this
Commentary
Are Some People Just Not Worth It?
Some people are worth saving, and some people aren't. That's the message of a new line item in the Massachusetts state budget proposing to spend $400,000 on Samaritans, a suicide prevention organization that provides a hotline for people thinking about ending their lives.
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Massachusetts Senate Wants More Money for Suicide Prevention
By Colin A. Young STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
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Counter-Resistance To Sanctuary Cities Forms In Boston
WEST ROXBURY — On the same day that House Democrats on Beacon Hill ushered through a bill aimed at halting any participation from the state's inmate population to help build President Donald Trump's proposed border wall, a resistance of a different sort took place across town. Wednesday
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Hodgson Fires Back At Beacon Hill Dems Over Out-Of-State Prisoner Work Ban
BOSTON — Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson fired back at Beacon Hill Democrats on Wednesday night, labeling them and specifically the sponsor of a leadership-backed bill passed along party lines hours before — one which bans corrections inmates from working across state lines — as "ignorant." "That's the
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Sanctuary City Setback in Massachusetts?
By Matt Murphy STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
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