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President Donald Trump is being widely (even by Dick Cheney) and at least in part justifiably criticized and condemned for his crackdown on the admission to America of refugees from certain foreign countries. If the goal is to make Americans safe from radical Islamic terrorism, the ban, it is argued
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BOSTON — In the end, Senate Republicans appeared powerless when it came to halting the legislative money train that rocketed through both chambers on Beacon Hill this week. "We in the minority appreciate the work that has been done," state Senator Bruce Tarr, the GOP minority leader from Gloucester,
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The comforting thing about Mayor Marty Walsh's offer to use Boston City Hall as a sanctuary for illegal immigrants is that no one will take him up on it. No one goes to New City Hall unless it's absolutely necessary. A trek across barren City Hall
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BOSTON — House lawmakers on Wednesday acted quickly along party lines to ram through a complex $18 million package of legislative, judicial,and constitutional office pay raises, marking the end of a speedy process in which Republicans appeared to be powerless in their opposition. Each Republican amendment went down in defeat,
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NEWTON — Steve Aylward had the back of the room, but Kirsten Hughes had the front of the room where it really mattered. Hughes defeated Aylward 46-30 in the race for chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party on Wednesday night.
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If you were the governor of a state where the other party outnumbered your party in the Legislature 3 ½ to 1, you might look for ways to make the legislators happy. And if you had it in your power to give those legislators a pay raise, you might do it.
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Shortly after his inauguration, President Donald Trump hastily arranged a press conference to take place in the Oval Office. In front of the entire world, the new president signed the first in a series of executive orders reversing or curtailing executive orders issued by President Barack Obama on a variety
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Checking in at a little more than 3,500 words, below is a transcript of Gov. Charlie Baker's second State of the Commonwealth Address.
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