Write-in candidates add some competition to sleepy legislative election season
A handful of candidates for Massachusetts House and Senate seats made the general election ballot through successful write-in campaigns in the September primary.
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A Walk Down the Block: Boston's Spooky Streets Halloween parties
How a Jamaica Plain resident got a city grant to shut down her street for a safe and spooky event.
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Nancy Pelosi chides pro-Palestine protesters during a Cambridge book talk
Pelosi was in town promoting a book amid her campaign for a 20th term in Congress. -
Every night of the play ‘NASSIM’ is different. That’s because its star has never seen the script.
Nassim Soleimanpour's audacious theatrical experiment requires a new featured performer to take to the stage each night while the script waits unseen in a sealed box. One of them was GBH’s Jared Bowen. -
Without a shot fired: How the long battle to build a Cape Cod machine gun range ended
For more than a dozen years, the Massachusetts Army National Guard has been fighting to build a machine gun range on Joint Base Cape Cod. But in the past month, the project seems to have collapsed. So how did that happen, is it really over — and what happens next? -
After her sudden death, Rep. Williams Gifford remembered as an inspiration to conservative women
The longtime state representative, a Wareham Republican, died from cancer at age 64. -
It's hard to raise a child with a rare disorder. This Mass. mom still makes time to raise awareness.
Mary Pederson is a single mom of a 3-year-old son, Carter, who has lissencephaly, a rare disease known as "smooth-brain syndrome" that causes developmental regressions.
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