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Maura Healey Shrugs Off Mid-Year Spending Cuts For Massachusetts State Government
By Colin A. Young State House News Service
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Provincetown Effectively Decriminalizes Mushrooms
Provincetown became Massachusetts's seventh municipality to effectively decriminalize psychadelic drugs, including magic mushrooms, this week. The town's board of selectmen voted 3-1-1 to approve a resolution at its meeting Monday, December 11 meeting instructing police officers to de-prioritize cases involving psilocybin. The resolution also calls for
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Massachusetts Attorney General Says ‘Cash Has To Be Accepted Everywhere’
By Colin A. Young State House News Service
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Massachusetts Democrat Pushing Voter ID Bill
Should you have to show an ID to vote in Massachusetts elections? A Democrat in the Massachusetts legislature thinks so. State Representative Colleen Garry (D-Dracut), filed a bill (H.687) that would require people to show identification to vote.
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Massachusetts Regulators Ponder How To Boost Responsible Gaming Tools
By Colin A. Young State House News Service
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Healey Nominates Abortion-Supporting Former Aide For Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
A 43-year-old abortion supporter who could serve until 2050 is Governor Maura Healey's first nominee to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Elizabeth Dewar, the state solicitor in the Massachusetts Attorney General's office, is the first nominee to the state's highest court not to have
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Allow Multi-Family Housing Units or State Will Cut Off Some Local Aid, Maura Healey Says To Massachusetts Towns
The state government will block state funding for public schools, roads, and other items for towns and cities that don't create at least one zoning district that allows multi-family housing as a matter of right, Governor Maura Healey said Thursday. Healey, a Democrat, called housing affordability "the
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Maura Healey Named Democratic Governors Association’s Women Governors Fund Chairman
Less than a year after assuming office, Maura Healey is taking on a national political role. The Democratic Governors Association named the Massachusetts governor as its chairman of the association's Women Governors Fund this week.
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