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State fights challenge to recording law

BOSTON — Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, served this past spring with a federal lawsuit by controversial undercover journalist James O'Keefe's Project Veritas Action Fund over enforcement of Massachusetts' recording laws, responded Friday with a motion to dismiss. Conley's chief argument for

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Marijuana legalization in Colorado may be hurting poor

BOSTON – Reports about the disproportionate impact of the legal marijuana industry on minority and low-income neighborhoods and families deserve a closer look, according to Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins, who so far has focused his opposition to the legalization ballot question on its health impacts. A recent Politico Magazine cover

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Old school outreach and the limits of progressive politics

If only the outwardly progressive candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for the Suffolk and Middlesex state senate seat had looked to history, one of their own might have begun a new Boston dynasty. The special election earlier this month to replace outgoing state Senator Anthony Petruccelli of East Boston will

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Greater Boston shows most population gains as rural areas shrink

BOSTON – Most recent population growth in Massachusetts has occurred in Boston and the metro area, while the number of residents in some rural counties and on Cape Cod actually shrank, U.S. Census Bureau figures released Thursday show. Compared with some other parts of the nation, particularly in parts of

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Boston’s most charitable neighborhoods mix rich and poor

BOSTON – It's the season of giving, but to what extent Hub residents respond appears to vary widely from one neighborhood to another, with the wealthiest giving the most while donation ratios in some of the poorest quarters easily outstrip those of their more well-off neighbors. And that'