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By Sam Drysdale State House News Service Massachusetts House Speaker Ronald Mariano on Tuesday condemned the actions of a freshman Cape Cod lawmaker, after regulators found that state Representative Christopher Flanagan violated state campaign finance law and subsequently lied about it to officials.
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If the Massachusetts House of Representatives has its way, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will ban schools from having American Indian mascots. This wouldn't happen because of a bill that made its way through the legislative process. Instead, the House wants to force its will onto municipalities on this
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By Gintautas Dumcius CommonWealth Beacon Campaign finance regulators kept coming back with a question for Chris Flanagan, a freshman House lawmaker who represents part of the Cape: Who is Jeanne Louise?
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The Massachusetts fiscal year 2024 budget set aside $325 million for the state's emergency shelter system. However, the state has allocated more than $1 billion for it during the past year.
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By Jennifer Smith CommonWealth Beacon Six years since Massachusetts opened the first legal recreational marijuana stores on the East Coast, residents are still by and large pleased with cannabis legalization. But they aren't taking a lax stance on regulations.
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By Alison Kuznitz State House News Service
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Welfare fraud continues to be a problem in Massachusetts. Investigators in state Auditor Diana DiZoglio's office found nearly $2.9 million worth of public benefits fraud from October 2023 through December 2023, according to a press release from her office. Most of that welfare fraud occurred via MassHealth,
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The Massachusetts legislature and Governor Maura Healey put a new restriction on the state's emergency shelter system, but it won't fix the problem. While pouring another $426 million into the system, on Thursday state legislators and the governor also imposed a nine-month limit on how long
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