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In case you missed it, there were party primaries for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts last week. Don't feel bad if you failed to catch the returns. Most people in Massachusetts didn't show up for the commonwealth's first-ever special election.
Rep. Michael E. Capuano's bid for Massachusetts' open Senate seat has been gaining momentum, and he has succeeded in narrowing the Democratic primary contest to a two-person race between himself and front-runner Martha Coakley, a number of party strategists and Massachusetts political observers say.
More cities and towns in Massachusetts have chosen to apply a local-option tax on restaurant meals. According to the state Department of Revenue, 34 communities filed paperwork to begin imposing the 0.75 percent meals tax as of Jan. 1. That is in addition to the 31 cities and towns where the tax went into effect Oct. 1. Still, fewer than ...
Photo by Mark M Murray / The Republican U.S. Senate candidate and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha M.Coakley speaks with reporters following her stop at the Latino Chamber of Commerce office in Springfield.
The Senate on Thursday approved legislation to enhance and protect benefits of Massachusetts’ veterans and servicemembers. The legislation, An Act to Provide Benefits for Veterans and Servicemembers , makes improvements in numerous areas, including voting rights, access to veterans’ services, employment and benefits.
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) — The race for a U.S. Senate seat once held by John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, John F. Kennedy and "liberal lion" Edward M. Kennedy, all paragons of American politics, is shaping up as a battle of relative national unknowns, led by a state Democratic insider and a Republican lawmaker perhaps best known as a male centerfold and father of an "American Idol" talent ...
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When Massachusetts elects a new U.S. senator in January, that person could end up voting on the national health care reform bill being debated in Congress. The proposal is being modeled in part after the health reform law passed here in 2006. Three years later, the state is still grappling with some of the details -- including access to care.
Edward Kennedy's widow says she's feeling bittersweet as Massachusetts wraps up its primary campaign to fill his U.S. Senate seat. Vicki Kennedy said in an interview that Tuesday's primaries are about "filling a term that he wasn't able to complete." She refuses to pick sides among her late husband's fellow Democrats.
When the Massachusetts Republicans went hunting for a candidate to oppose Sen. Edward Kennedy in 2000, they thought they'd struck gold in a little known attorney and political newcomer named Jack E. Robinson.
After voting to dissolve the co-operative football team at Cape Tech/Harwich, the Mayflower League will lose at least one of its members next year after Cape Tech formally decided to leave the league in all sports in favor of forming the newest version of the Cape and Islands League. “We’re not giving up on the co-op team. We’ve appealed to the MIAA (Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic ...
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