Salem passes first-ever override tax hike to build new high school
With a turnout of 19% of the city's voters, 57.5% of voters approved a plan on Tuesday to add around $700 a year to the median tax bill in order to pay for a new high school.
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Abigail Adams implored her husband to ‘remember the ladies.’ Here’s what she meant.
While it’s been used as a rallying cry for women’s political rights, the famous phrase may have had more to do with tyranny at home.
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UMass Memorial transfers transgender patients to new surgeons following abrupt cancellations
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Mass. judge rules against Trump administration policy for third-country deportations
“It’s not fine, nor is it legal,” the judge wrote. He said the Trump administration violated his previous orders repeatedly. -
‘Massachusetts ... is even worse’: Does Trump's fraud claim hold up?
Despite the president’s assertions, the scale of documented local fraud pales in comparison to Minnesota. -
As utilities work on the South Shore, Fall River still struggles just to clear streets
Nearly half of the residential streets in the city in southeastern Massachusetts remain buried under snow, two days after the storm dumped 41 inches of snow on the city.
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