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Mar 17 2024
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Massachusetts affordable housing push: Medford to consider real estate transaction fee
Medford is looking to become the latest Massachusetts municipality to send a home rule petition to the State House to enact a tax on “high-end real estate deals.” Backers say the measure would address the city’s affordable housing “crisis,” but the idea is not sitting too well with residents. Some engaged in a shouting match with city councilors during a meeting last week. Eighteen cities and
Boston HeraldMar 13 2024
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TikTok bill divides Massachusetts delegation in Congress - see how they voted
BOSTON - A TikTok bill that could lead to a ban of the popular social media platform in the U.S. took a major step forward in Congress on Wednesday. The House of Representatives passed legislation that would require China-based parent company ByteDance to sell its stake in the app. The bill passed with broad bipartisan support, but in Massachusetts there was a rare split among the nine
CBS News (Online)Mar 17 2024
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6 Massachusetts students accused of online racial bullying including 'mock slave auction'
Six Massachusetts students have been charged in "hateful, racist online" Snapchat bullying incidents, officials said. Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni announced that his office is pursuing criminal charges against six minors from Southwick for the February incidents that included "facilitating and participating in a hateful, racist online chat that included heinous language, threats,
"USA Today" ContributorMar 19 2024
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‘As pricey as a big city’: Tiny Massachusetts town named most expensive in America
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. — A tiny town in Massachusetts has been named the most expensive place to live in the United States, according to a study. LendingTree recently published, “As Pricey as a Big City: Home Values in America’s Most Expensive Towns,” which summarized findings from analysis of U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey data to find the 50 U.S. micropolitan areas. The study
Boston 25 NewsMar 14 2024
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6 Massachusetts teens charged with hate crimes after alleged 'slave auction' on Snapchat
United Press InternationalMar 17 2024
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Massachusetts family helps return Japanese artifacts looted during World War II
BOSTON — A local family that found looted World War II artifacts in their late father’s personal effects “did the right thing” and alerted the FBI, leading to the feds returning the historic art to Japan after eight decades. The FBI Boston division announced that it has recovered 22 historic artifacts that were looted after the Battle of Okinawa. These artifacts had been missing for almost 80
Portland Press HeraldMar 25 2024
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Massachusetts Burning $75 Million A Month On Shelters, May Soon Run Out Of Cash Amid Migrant Crisis
Massachusetts is spending about $75 million a month on shelters and is reportedly on track to run out of cash next month as officials struggle to contend with a migrant crisis. Democrat Governor Maura Healey’s administration has not revealed exactly when the money is slated to run out, but it is expected to be sometime in early or mid-April, according to the Boston Herald. “We don’t have any
The Daily WireMar 13 2024
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Massachusetts man gets prison for making bomb threat to Arizona election office
PHOENIX — A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to three years and six months in federal prison for making an online threat to bomb then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs’ election office in February 2021, the U.S. Justice Department said. Cut through the 2024 election noise. Get The Campaign Moment newsletter. James Clark, 40, of Falmouth, pleaded guilty in August in U.S. District Court
Washington PostMar 17 2024
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Massachusetts State Police arrest Level 2 sex offender friends for alleged child pornography
Boston HeraldMar 13 2024
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Tractor trailer rollover in front of Massachusetts State Police barracks in East Boston
Massachusetts State Police troopers responded Wednesday to a tractor trailer rollover in front of their East Boston barracks.
The agency tweeted just after 11 a.m. that they were on the scene and had closed some of the lanes on the Service Road at their barracks at Logan International Airport.
The driver of the trailer was injured and was transported to an area hospital, the
Boston Herald