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Coalition’s Congressional map proposes uniting Fall River, New Bedford
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Life Without Parole Knocked As “Death By Another Name”
By Chris Lisinski More than four years after her younger brother, Michael, was shot and killed in Boston, Rep. Liz…
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Massachusetts spending housing aid, likely to receive more
Chris Lisinski/SHNS The federal government is revving up to redistribute some unspent rental aid it steered to states during the…
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Fall River Brings Fire Stations Into Opioid Fight
By Meg McIntyre Special to the State House News Service Earlier this year, Fall River firefighters responded to the scene…
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Enhanced Cash Benefits Pitched to Get Massachusetts Families Out of ‘Deep Poverty’
By Matt Murphy State House News Service Despite the Legislature in 2021 increasing cash assistance benefits for the first time…
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Enhanced cash benefits pitched to get families out of ‘deep poverty’
By Matt Murphy State House News Service Despite the Legislature in 2021 increasing cash assistance benefits for the first time…
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Massachusetts hospitals: Staffing problems are ‘really bad’
By Katie Lannan State House News Service Hospital leaders sounded an alarm Wednesday about the workforce challenges plaguing them as…
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Coalition Seeks Formation Of 13 New Majority-Minority Districts
By Matt Murphy Voting rights advocates are pushing for a new majority-Black Senate district in Boston and as many as…
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Massachusetts Doctors Urge State To Take First Step on Drug Consumption Sites
Michael P. Norton In 2017, the trade association representing doctors in Massachusetts became the first in the United States to…
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Board raises Massachusetts Education Commissioner’s salary to over $250,000 with future increases
Katie Lannan/SHNS Members of the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education signed off Tuesday on salary increases for Commissioner…
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