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Tax-Free Weekend in Massachusetts 2025: What to Know Before You Shop

Here's everything you need to know about the annual Massachusetts tax-free weekend.

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Massachusetts governor declares emergency and urges help for migrants

Maura Healey calls on federal government to provide ‘urgent action’ as shelters housing migrants and refugees reach capacity

The Guardian - US

Massachusett governor declares state of emergency amid influx of migrants seeking shelter

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey declared a state of emergency Tuesday, citing an influx of migrants seeking shelter at a time when the cost of housing continues to rise

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Alabama’s 2022 state legislative elections saw highest percentage of seats with no major party competition

In the 2022 state legislative election cycle, Alabama saw the highest percentage of seats with no major party competition in the country. Major party competition exists when a ballot contains a candidate from one or both major parties and does not account for minor party candidacy. Oklahoma came in second…

Ballotpedia

Initiative Sponsors Filed A Total Of 52 Measures Targeting The Massachusetts 2024 Ballot—the Most Over The Last Six Election Cycles

In Massachusetts, the initiative filing deadline for the 2024 ballot was Aug. 3.

Zenger

Initiative sponsors filed a total of 52 measures targeting the Massachusetts 2024 ballot—the most over the last six election cycles

In Massachusetts, the initiative filing deadline for the 2024 ballot was Aug. 3. Initiative sponsors filed 52 measures (49 initiated state statutes and three initiated constitutional amendments) by the deadline—the most filed over the last six election cycles. The average number of initiatives filed between 2012 and 2022 was 29.…

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Back-to-School Shopping 2024: Every Tax-Free Weekend

Does your state have a back-to-school sales tax holiday this summer? Find out when, and what, you can buy tax-free.

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Massachusetts rejects request to discharge radioactive water from closed nuclear plant into bay

Massachusetts environmental regulators have denied a request by the company dismantling a shuttered nuclear power plant to release more than 1 million gallons of radioactive wastewater into Cape Cod Bay

The Independent UK

Barack Obama’s personal chef drowns near the family’s home on Martha’s Vineyard

Body of Tafari Campbell recovered from pond near Obamas’ home in Massachusetts

Evening Standard

Obama chef death – latest: Tafari Campbell identified as man who died paddleboarding near Obama’s home

In a statement of mourning, the Obamas Campbell as ‘a beloved part of our family’

The Independent UK

Massachusetts is updating its sex education guidelines for the first time in 24 years

In June 2023, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shared with the public a draft of a new framework that will guide how elementary, middle and high schools in the state approach sex education.

The Conversation

Now a Floridian, Boston Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca says why he left Massachusetts

Surprisngly, it wasn't the taxes -- unlike (at least in part) Grant Williams.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Tesla CyberCanopy Might Be Installed At Massachusetts Supercharger Location

The Tesla CyberCanopy could help the brand meet its increasing energy needs in the future without overburdening the grid.

InsideEVs

Using green banks to solve America’s affordable housing crisis – and climate change at the same time

Green banks are starting to draw attention in the U.S., particularly since the federal government announced its first grant competitions under a national green bank program to bring clean technology and more affordable energy to low-income communities.

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Early-week floods leave Western Mass. crops ‘a total loss’ for some farmers

Jon Galenski’s land in South Deerfield was no exception to the widespread damage torrential rains inflicted on farms across Western Massachusetts earlier this week.

Boston Herald

More than 1,000 acres of crops destroyed in Massachusetts by storms, floods

At least 75 farms were soaked and more than 1,000 acres of crops lost after heavy storms earlier this week in Western Massachusetts, state agriculture officials said Friday morning.

The Independent UK

Seven murders by cyanide-laced Tylenol will never be solved. But the prime suspect’s death brings justice

After a joint FBI task force was unable to pin the 1982 Tylenol murders on prime suspect James Lewis, special agent Roy Lane was coaxed out of retirement to carry out a daring undercover mission. He tells Bevan Hurley Lewis’ death this week ‘puts the pursuit of justice to an…

Reason

Court Greenlights Microsoft Acquisition of Video Game Powerhouse Activision Blizzard

Plus: California social media law could backfire, Massachusetts may ban the sale of phone location data, and more...

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The Guardian - US

Americans warned not to swim or drive in hazardous flood waters

Residents face toxic and drowning hazards as officials in Vermont and Massachusetts survey damage from devastating inundation

Reason

Massachusetts Considers Ban on Sale of Phone Location Data

Abortion and privacy activists join over concerns that cell phones track our movements.

Reason

Massachusetts' Wealth Tax Encouraged NBA's Grant Williams To Sign With Dallas

Grant Williams breaks down the math: "$54 million in Dallas is really like $58 million in Boston."

WEKU

An overdue library book makes a return trip to the shelves — 119 years later

There are overdue library books. Then there's An Elementary Treatise on Electricity, which was last checked out in Massachusetts in 1904. It finally made it back after being spotted in West Virginia.

The Independent UK

Extremely overdue book returned to Massachusetts library 119 years later

A Massachusetts library is celebrating the return of a book more than a century after it was last checked out

Chicago Tribune

University of Chicago partners with Massachusetts firm to incubate startup companies in Hyde Park Labs

CHICAGO — Chicago’s life sciences industry is about to get another much-needed shot in the arm. The University of Chicago signed a partnership agreement with CIC, a Massachusetts-based operator of shared workspaces and labs, to incubate dozens of faculty-led startup companies within the university’s leased space in Hyde Park Labs,…

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A woman is found alive and stuck in the mud a week after she went missing

Hikers found the woman at Borderland State Park in Massachusetts, and police used all-terrain vehicles to rescue her.

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