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Some people are critical — they compare it to the DARE program for alcohol and drug education that largely failed in the 1980s and '90s.
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Healey, the Massachusetts Attorney General, overwhelmed her Republican opponent, Geoff Diehl, to put the governorship back in Democratic hands after Republican Gov. Charlie Baker didn't run again.
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Members of Massachusetts's Wampanoag community say the people running the Patuxet living history site have done little to ingratiate themselves with tribes.
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The Environmental Protection Agency recently issued a new warning that no level of PFAS in water is safe.
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New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals overdose deaths rose by 30% from 2019 to 2020.
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A Massachusetts elementary school welcomes COVID-sniffing dogs. The animals were trained to detect COVID based on research showing that dogs could find a fungus on trees before the trees got sick.
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Massachusetts lawmakers formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name three centuries after she was convicted of witchcraft in 1693 at the height of the Salem Witch Trials.
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Many transgender people are poorly served by mainstream medicine, as providers often lack an understanding of gender issues.
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The states were not counted equally well for population totals used to determine their share of political representation and federal funding for the next 10 years, a new Census Bureau report shows.
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This comes after an extremely rapid rise in December, where the number far exceeded previous pandemic records.