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Mass. Alcohol Tax Disappears This Week
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts shoppers soon will no longer have to pay the state’s 6.25 percent sales tax on alcohol sold in stores. Come Jan. 1 the tax is set to disappear. Voters approved a ballot...
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Sponsors Claim Enough Signatures For Euthanasia & Marijuana Ballot Questions
BOSTON (AP) — Sponsors of proposals to allow terminally ill patients to self-administer life-ending drugs and to legalize marijuana for medical purposes claim they have gathered enough signatures to...
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Medical Marijuana, Aid In Dying, Right To Repair Top Ballot Questions
BOSTON (AP) — With measures failing to be taken up in the Legislature and advocates rallying support throughout the state, Massachusetts voters will have the opportunity to weigh in on contentious...
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Mass. Critics Of Suicide Question Return $250,000
BOSTON (AP) — A group opposed to a ballot question that would allow terminally ill patients to self-administer life-ending drugs has returned a $250,000 donation from a conservative Mississippi-based...
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Toucher & Rich: Do You Know Your Ballot Questions?
We are right in the middle of a heated political season, and with politics comes opinions. And of course, with opinions come some idiots. Toucher & Rich sent Adolfo out on the streets to gauge...
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Toucher & Rich: Do You Know Your Ballot Questions?
We are right in the middle of a heated political season, and with politics comes opinions. And of course, with opinions come some idiots. Toucher & Rich sent Adolfo out on the streets to gauge...
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Ballot Question 3: Should Medical Marijuana Be Allowed In Massachusetts?
BOSTON (CBS) – Massachusetts voters will have to make decisions on three ballot questions on Election Day. Question 3 would allow for the use of medical marijuana in the Commonwealth. Eric McCoy, who...
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Mass. Voters Approve Medical Marijuana Ballot Measure
BOSTON (CBS) – Massachusetts voters have approved a ballot measure that legalizes medical marijuana. CHECK: Question 3 Results Doctors can now recommend medical marijuana for patients with certain...
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Mass. Voters Approve Auto Repair Question
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts voters have approved a ballot question requiring automakers to provide car owners and independent repair shops with access to their diagnostic systems. CHECK: Question 1...
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Question 2 Assisted Suicide Supporters Concede Defeat
BOSTON (AP) — Supporters of a ballot question that would legalize physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill in Massachusetts have conceded defeat, even though the vote is too close to call....
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Casino Repeal, Sick Time, Minimum Wage Bills Head Toward Mass. Ballot In 2014
BOSTON (AP) — Voters in Massachusetts have grown used to weighty policy questions, from deciding whether to allow the death penalty or regulate abortion to whether to legalize physician-assisted...
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WBZ-TV-UMass Amherst Poll: Baker-Coakley, Casinos Are Close Races
BOSTON (CBS) – The first WBZ TV-UMass Amherst poll on the Massachusetts governor’s race shows it’s a tight contest between Republican Charlie Baker and Democrat Martha Coakley. The poll released Monday...
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Ballot Question 1: Eliminating Gas Tax Indexing
BOSTON (CBS) – Ballot Question 1 would repeal the part of last year’s gasoline tax hike that would adjust the tax annually according to the inflation rate. Steve Aylward of Watertown led the petition...
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Ballot Question 2: Expanding The Bottle Deposit Law
BOSTON (CBS) – Ballot Question 2 raises the question of whether expanding the state’s beverage container law would result in less litter and more people recycling. Can a five-cent deposit make that...
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Ballot Question 3: Ban Casinos In Massachusetts?
BOSTON (CBS) – Massachusetts voters will have the chance to give a thumbs up or down on casinos in the Commonwealth on November 4. Ballot Question 3 is called “The Affordable Casino Repeal Initiative”...
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Ballot Question 4: Earned Sick Time For Employees
BOSTON (CBS) – Ballot Question 4 would set a mandate for both small and large businesses to provide employees with a certain allocation of sick days. “Employees who work for employers having eleven or...
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New WBZ-TV-UMass Amherst Poll Shows Coakley, Baker In Dead Heat
BOSTON (CBS) – A new WBZ/UMass Amherst poll shows the 2014 race for governor is locked in a dead heat as voters prepare to choose a successor to Gov. Deval Patrick. Republican nominee Charlie Baker and...
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Massachusetts Groups Propose Questions Legalizing Marijuana
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts voters could get a chance to decide whether to legalize the recreational use of marijuana if any of several proposed pro-pot questions filed with the state attorney...
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Healey Clears Most Proposed State Ballot Questions
BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts attorney general cleared the way on Wednesday for supporters of more than 20 proposed ballot questions, including ones calling for the legalization of recreational...
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WBZ-UMass Poll: Ballot Questions On Marijuana, Common Core, Wealthy Income Tax
BOSTON (CBS) – I know, it’s hard to take your eyes off the presidential demolition derby. But the WBZ-TV, WBZ NewsRadio, UMass Amherst Poll shows we are headed for a pretty interesting local campaign...
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