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BOSTON – Framingham will join Cambridge, Newton and more than a dozen other Bay State communities in banning plastic bags used by retailers to package goods including groceries starting in January 2018. Acting on a citizen's petition "to eliminate the usage of thin-film single-use bags by all retail
government
A glance at the overall count of rules and regulations leads one to suppose regulatory burdens are decreasing. After all, since Obama took office the total number of rules and regulations appearing annually in the Federal Register has moved from 3,830 in Bush's last calendar year to
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BOSTON (AP) — Organizers are scrapping plans for an IndyCar race on the streets of Boston. John Casey, president of the Grand Prix of Boston, told the Boston Globe on Friday that the relationship between promoters and the city isn't working.
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BOSTON – Boston's Licensing Board made a long-awaited move toward letting diners bring their own beer and wine into a restaurant, voting unanimously Thursday to begin the process of changing the rules that currently bar customers from doing so. "Yesterday's vote is an exciting step forward
Massachusetts
The state Gaming Commission on Thursday declined to award a license for a commercial casino on the Brockton Fairgrounds in southeastern Massachusetts near where the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe has broken ground on a resort casino of its own. After about two and a half days of discussion and deliberation, the
Donald Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — One of Donald Trump's jets has been flying for months with an expired registration, Federal Aviation Administration records showed Tuesday. The Republican presidential candidate's airplane lost its registered status in January after failure to pay a $5 fee to the FAA. The aircraft in
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WASHINGTON – An assortment of conservative and libertarian groups is calling on Congress to implement a regulatory budget that would clamp down on the hundreds of billions of dollars the groups say are wasted in complying with unnecessary rules and regulations. "Like federal spending, regulations and their costs should be
Massachusetts legislature
BOSTON – For Holly Marcus, the fear of having to leave her North End neighborhood after nearly 40 years is beginning to feel real. Marcus was one of dozens of Massachusetts residents who showed up at the State House on Tuesday morning to testify for a proposal that would prevent landlords
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