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Healey To Sue Trump — Again — Over Census Citizenship Question

BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said Tuesday she plans to sue President Donald Trump's administration over plans to reintroduce a citizenship question to the 2020 federal census. "The Census is supposed to count everyone," Healey said in a Twitter post Tuesday morning. "This is

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Boston City Councilor Zakim Presses Galvin Over Phone Call With Lawrence Mayor Rivera

BOSTON — Secretary of State William Galvin's silence following claims made by Lawrence Mayor Dan Rivera that Galvin asserted to have played a role in his winning 2013 mayoral race is "very troubling," the secretary's Democratic opponent Josh Zakim said on Tuesday.

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Massachusetts’ Secretary Of The Commonwealth Race Wasting No Time Getting Ugly

MAYOR'S ENDORSEMENT OF ZAKIM IGNITES SPAT WITH GALVIN

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Mass. AG Healey directed to revise response to ‘copycat’ weapon ban information request

BOSTON — A Holden resident, stonewalled last month by Attorney General Maura Healey's office when she rejected his public records request for documents and records that may shed light on how Healey arrived at her "copycat" assault weapons ban decision, recently scored a victory in his appeal

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Sanders backer sues Clinton, Galvin over Super Tuesday shenanigans

BOSTON — A Bernie Sanders supporter is taking former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State William Galvin to federal court, alleging that the husband of the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee illegally campaigned for his wife in Massachusetts on primary day. "This goes beyond hubris," said Kathleen Cody, the

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Pearson exec slams opponents of Common Core as supporters head to court to prevent Mass. vote

A video in which a former textbook publishing executive defends the controversial federal Common Core educational standards and says that its creators aim to marginalize teachings of America's founding principles became public last week, just days before Common Core supporters filed suit in Massachusetts court to stop voters

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Voters may soon get to weigh in on charter schools, Common Core

BOSTON — Proponents of two ballot initiatives aimed at reforming Massachusetts public education dropped off boxes of signed petitions to Secretary of State William Galvin's office on Wednesday. Sponsors of measures that would expand the number of public charter schools and prevent the state from continuing to rely on