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⏱ 3 minute read Massachusetts is confronting growing fiscal and demographic challenges as state leaders grapple with population changes, tax policy, and shifting migration patterns. Recent data points to slowing population growth, driven by a combination of reduced immigration and domestic outmigration. According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal, cities like Boston saw strong population increases between 2023 and 2024, but that growth lowered significantly the following year. Analysts attribute the shift to tighter federal immigration enforcement alongside a continued trend of residents relocating to other states, particularly those with lower costs of living. Declining Tax Base Raises Concerns...

BOSTON (WHDH/WBZ/CNN NEWSOURCE/WKRC) - A Massachusetts high school senior is charged with murder in the death of a 68-year-old woman in what investigators say was a random attack in Danvers. Anthony Demayo, 18, appeared in court Friday in Salem after police arrested him Thursday in Lynn. Authorities said he was found walking along a road carrying a bloody knife.

The Greater Springfield NAACP wants colleges — including the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst College and Holyoke Community College — to address surging Turning Point USA chapters on their campuses. The conservative group ramped up here and around the country after founder and spokesman Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during an event at a Utah university in September.

A man in Florida for a bachelor party humiliated his friend by stealing all the women they met at Miami Beach bars, then stabbed the pal after he became "agitated" and confronted him, cops say. Olajuwon Dickerson, 32, of Massachusetts, is charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon after attacking the victim while partying with him and two other friends, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by Law&Crime.

In the waning days of the benighted Biden Administration, as Democrats do when they are preparing to leave office, the leftist agents in the federal apparatus rapaciously took every opportunity to shore up their hold on as many levers of power as possible. As always, this included seating as many reliably leftist activist judges as they could, so that they had places to go when they wanted to overthrow the ability of the incoming administration to do what it was elected to do. One of the judges the deep state installed was a Massachusetts criminal defense attorney named Brian Murphy....

Six progressive, anti-Israel candidates running for Congress in Illinois, all of whom AIPAC reportedly sees as potential members of the “Squad,” lost their primaries in the 2nd, 7th, 8th and 9th Districts on Tuesday. Most drew endorsements from the Democratic Socialists of America, members of the “Squad” in Congress or a combination of the two. Marc Rod, of Jewish Insider, wrote on March 16, the day before the primaries, that “a source close to AIPAC says the group’s main goal in Chicago is stopping who it sees as six potential Squad members: Robert Peters, Kina Collins, Junaid Ahmed, Yasmeen Bankole,...

The latest poll of registered voters from NBC News found that President Trump was viewed less unfavorably than the two leading Democrats contenders for the 2028 presidential nomination. Trump's percentages were 41% positive to 53% negative for a net -12%. Gov. California Gavin Newsom's were 27% positive to 45% negative for a net -18%. Former Vice-President Kamala Harris' were 34% positive to 51% negative for a net of -17%. Comparisons for the Republican and Democrat Parties were similar. Voters rated Republicans as 37% positive to 51% negative for a net -14%. Democrats were rated 30% positive to 52% negative for...

Just the other day, Gov. Maura Healey was once again whining about how ICE is picking up her, uh, neighbors. They’re not sending us their best. Donald Trump first said that back in 2015 during his initial campaign for president. Trump was talking about illegal aliens and how their bleephole Third World homelands have been dumping them into the US. But all these years later, Democrats continue to pretend that they don’t understand why these lawless savages must be rounded up and deported. Just the other day, Gov. Maura Healey was once again whining about how ICE is picking up...

A Quiet Coastal Revolution “Why only two?” The question, posed six years ago by J.T. Scott, a member of the city council of Somerville, Massachusetts, is at the heart of the debate concerning government recognition of polyamory. Scott and his colleague on the city council were considering a domestic partnership ordinance. The original language of the draft specified a domestic partnership as being “between two people,” according to The Harvard Crimson. Councilor Lance L. Davis paused, saying “something didn’t feel quite right,” reports The Crimson. Scott asked the question: “Why only two?” Davis, in his words, executed a “few simple...

Fox News contributor Joey Jones, a Marine Corps veteran, called out Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts on “Fox and Friends” Monday for labeling Vice President JD Vance a “pogue” during a Friday CNN appearance. Moulton, an ex-Marine who served four tours in the Global War on Terror according to his official biography, used the term while reacting to President Donald Trump canceling a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after he and Vance argued with the Ukrainian leader during a contentious meeting prior to the planned signing of a minerals deal Friday. Jones, who served as an...

Marie Harf is stepping down from her post as a political commentator for Fox News Channel and co-host of Fox News Radio’s Benson and Harf—a show co-hosted with Guy Benson—to join Team [Seth] Moulton as deputy campaign manager for policy and communications, The Daily Beast confirmed. Harf’s hire adds more foreign-policy credentials to the 40-year-old veteran’s early presidential campaign. Prior to becoming a talking head, she worked as a senior communications adviser to former Secretary of State John Kerry and at the CIA as a Middle East analyst. She also ran former President Barack Obama’s national-security strategy during the 2012...

Well, at least we're rid of one nitwit.

Are you now or have you ever been an agent for the Russians? No? Okay, let me ask it another way:  Were you ever a Russian agent? No? In that case, let me ask the same question again with slightly different wording... And so it seemed to go on the July 22 State of the Union on CNN as host Jake Tapper appeared to act as a latter day Inspector Javert hot on the trail of his Jean Valjean in the form of businessman and former Trump adviser Carter Page who was clearly amused by Tapper's dogged persistence over what...

Democrat congressman, Seth Moulton, defiantly announced that he WILL NOT participate in the House of Representatives moment of silence for the victims in Las Vegas. Moulton explains his disgusting actions by saying that now is a time for action, not silence. In truth, it’s completely disrespectful towards the victims and he should be ashamed of himself. The Massachusetts Democrat appeared to be protesting inaction to pass gun control legislation. Moulton also did not participate in a moment of silence in honor of the victims of the 2016 Orlando night club shooting, which killed 49 people. In the aftermath of the...

Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton says he will not participate in a moment of silence on the House floor after 50 people were killed in Las Vegas and more than 400 others were sent to area hospitals in the deadliest mass shooting in American history. The Democratic congressman, along with his Bay State colleague Katherine Clark, also did not participate in a moment of silence after a mass shooting in Orlando claimed the lives of 49 people in June 2016. The two joined other Democratic representatives to walk out on the moment of silence in a protest over a lack...

<p>Democrats hope to enlist military veterans in another type of fight — for majority control of the House.</p> <p>Looking ahead to next year's elections, Democrats are trying to recruit at least two dozen military veterans to challenge Republican incumbents, arguing that candidates with a military background on their resumes appeal to independent voters and can help the party break the GOP grip on Washington.</p>

Gun shop owner talks AR-15 NY Daily News BY Seth Moulton SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, June 14, 2016, 8:26 PM I’m a Marine. I carried guns every day in Iraq, guns very similar to the ones used to perpetrate the Orlando murders and many other mass shootings in America. I’ve used guns in combat. On more than one occasion, guns have saved my life.

Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton possibly committed a crime when he brought an illegal immigrant to President Trump's State of the Union address on February 24, and then hid the illegal immigrant — Marcelo Gomes daSilva — in his office when daSilva's presence was made known. ICE arrested daSilva last May.But the plot now thickens. The Milford Police shared information that daSilva was reportedly mentioned in police reports involving "sexual assault and juveniles."WOW. Marcelo Gomes da Silva, the illegal alien guest that Rep. Seth Moulton (D) brought to the State of the Union address, was reportedly mentioned in police reports involving...

Congressman Seth Moulton’s illegal immigrant guest during the State of the Union address is referenced in police reports involving sexual assault and juveniles, police say. The Herald submitted a public records request to the Secretary of State’s Office and the Milford Police Department regarding two reports, one from June and the other from September of 2021, where Marcelo Gomes da Silva was apparently named as the person of interest. The Herald sought the police report numbered 21-23101 dated 9/15/2021 featuring Marcelo Gomes da Silva and 21-16254 dated 6/30/21 also featuring the 19-year-old. Milford Deputy Chief John Sanchioni denied both of...

🚨 WTF?! Democrat Rep. Seth Moulton SMUGGLED IN an illegal alien to Trump's State of the Union address, then had his Chief of Staff HARBOR the illegal in Moulton's office to SHIELD him from police Harboring an illegal is a FEDERAL FELONY ARRESTS need to be made! Or our laws are MEANINGLESS.