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STATE WIRE: MASS TAKES STEP TOWARD SINGLE PAYER
"Using that data, you can start to have the conversation of where are the cost drivers, where are the potential savings, and where can we actually streamline the whole conversation to get to guaranteed universal health care without the overhead of the insurance industry."
GENERAL ELECTRIC FAIL
Conglomerate’s woes throw Boston HQ deal contradictions into bold relief
What a surprise. General Electric is tanking, and the scheme to bring the multinational’s headquarters to Boston is looking worse by the day. And whom shall the public blame if that once-secret deal cut by Gov. Charlie Baker and Mayor Marty Walsh in January 2016 goes south? Potentially ...
CONSPIRACY BLEARY: THE GOVERNMENT’S CASE SETS A LOW BAR FOR CHARGES ON EVE OF J20 TRIAL
All the prosecution needed to establish was a conspiracy to commit any crime, including “conspiracy to disrupt public congress.” This could refer to any protest at any time.
FROM DECAY GROUND TO PLAYGROUND (AND BACK AGAIN)
Somerville residents reclaim empty lot, then forced out in latest rift of 10-year saga
TARGETED DEPORTATION IN MASS?
Human rights activist seized by ICE during routine immigration check-in
HERE’S THAT HISTORY LESSON JOHN KELLY NEEDS
Kelly’s remark is also a false equivalence. And in the most odious way, because it minimizes the moral turpitude of the Confederacy’s dogged and “by any means necessary” drive to make chattel slavery endure as a central pillar to their Southern way of life.
DIGBOSTON SEEKS LOCAL TALENT
NATIONAL WIRE: HOUSE CHIP RENEWAL UNLIKELY TO PASS SENATE
The Republican bill that passed the House would balance increased costs by slashing funding for vital public health services and denying healthcare to pregnant women and children while billing issues are resolved.
MASS PROSECUTORS GET REFORM SCHOOLED
Criminal justice reformers respond to Neanderthal district attorneys