Thursday’s solemn National Day of Mourning observance in downtown Plymouth, Massachusetts, recalled the disease and oppression that European settlers brought to North America.
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Maine DEP suspends construction license for $1 billion power line
The license will be reinstated if the New England Clean Energy Connect project’s developer wins its legal fights over state land or a pending statutory ban.
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Hundreds of Massachusetts state workers suspended over vaccine order
The governor announced in August that executive branch workers will have to provide proof of a COVID-19 vaccination or seek an exemption from the state, otherwise they’d risk being fired.
Posted inNation / World, New England
Three years after Boston mobster ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s killing: No charges, still questions
The lack of answers has only spurred claims by the crime boss’s family that the frail 89-year-old was ‘deliberately sent to his death’ at the penitentiary nicknamed ‘Misery Mountain.’
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Seabrook plant dispute over NECEC power line could hinder clean-energy effort, Massachusetts says
The federal-level fight represents yet another obstacle for the western Maine transmission line roughly a week before Maine voters will weigh in on a ballot question aimed at killing the project.
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U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to Massachusetts governor’s pandemic authority
The lawsuit argued thatGov. Charlie Baker had no authority to issue public health-related orders under the state’s Civil Defense Act.
Posted inNation / World, New England
Boston train that rear-ended another was on ‘full power,’ investigators find
The report did not say if the controller had been turned to full power on purpose or accidentally.
Posted inNation / World, New England
Boston’s storied Skinny House sells for a nice fat price
The house, built in 1862, also is known as the Spite House because of the story behind its construction.
Posted inNation / World, New England, Religion & Values
Ex-Cardinal McCarrick, 91, pleads not guilty in Massachusetts sex assault
An activist says former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s court appearance in a sex abuse case marks a new phase in the global struggle to hold clerics accountable.
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Judge dismisses lawsuit brought by armed group stopped on their way to Maine
The self-described leader of the group said they were a militia traveling from Rhode Island to Maine for training.