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The Bureau of Labor Statistics said prices for food eaten at home have gone up more than 10%.
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Republican delegates on Saturday qualified both of their candidates for Massachusetts governor for the September primary ballot. Reporter Matt Murphy of the State House News Service discusses what's ahead this week at the Statehouse in Boston.
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Lesli Suggs, the president and CEO of the Home for Little Wanderers, joined WBUR's Morning Edition host Rupa Shenoy to talk further about this. -
Jennifer McDermott/APSecretary Jennifer Granholm said “nuclear must be a part of the zero-carbon future.”
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Greenfield Community TelevisionIn early May, a jury found that Greenfield, Massachusetts, Police Chief Robert Haigh and the department racially discriminated against a former officer, Patrick Buchanan, when it denied him a promotion.
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Courtesy/Springfield Puerto Rican Parade CommitteeThe Springfield Puerto Rican Parade will march down Main Street in September after two years of virtual parades.
Speaking and signing performers share the stage in the Opera House Players’ presentation of Next to Normal
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Samuel Quiñones/CourtesyComposer Christian Quiñones, who participated in El Puerto Rico IV, said his music channeled a dichotomy between beauty and the fear of letting go.
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Adam Conte/Courtesy of the artistA composer, performer and installation artist from the Navajo Nation, Chacon's winning piece, Voiceless Mass, was composed for chamber orchestra and a specific Milwaukee pipe organ.
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Each year about a quarter of a million fish use the fish lift at the Hadley Falls Station in Holyoke, Massachusetts. -
Connecticut Rep. Jim Himes asked Pentagon officials to help reduce "speculation and conspiracy theories" around UFOs.
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The Center For Health Information and Analysis said aggregate operating revenue for hospitals increased by $2.8 billion, or 9% in 2021.
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The special commission charged with reviewing and possibly revamping Massachusetts's official state seal and motto voted unanimously to recommend that both be replaced.
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Author Erik Reardon dives into the history of commitments local citizens made to gaining a greater understanding of migratory fish, and accommodations they cooperatively made to keep these fish populations healthy.
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Language helping to set up expanded passenger rail service from western Massachusetts to Boston was left out of a nearly $10 billion transportation bond bill.
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