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Ballot Question 5 Looks to Reformulate State’s Tax Revenue Cap

Since 1986, Massachusetts has had a cap on how much tax revenue the state can collect in a year, requiring the state to refund taxpayers if the cap is exceeded. But in 40 years, a refund has only been ...
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Ballot Question 8 Could Turn Back the Clock on Recreational Marijuana Sales

Ten years after Massachusetts legalized recreational marijuana, Ballot Question 9 aims to end its sale and home cultivation, while preserving the state’s medical marijuana program.
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‘William Tell’ Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s Urgent, Dazzling Take on a Rossini Rarity

BLO’s recasting of Rossini’s 'William Tell' in a 21st-century context with political urgency and commentary, creating an impactful season opener for the company’s 50th anniversary.
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‘Carrie’ Review: A Must-Watch Modern Adaptation

This series’ utter embrace of the ambiguous makes it the perfect rendition of “Carrie” for a modern audience no longer satisfied with the black and white.
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‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Review: Less is More in Maycomb

A dose of Loretta Greco’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is sure to satisfy anyone’s thirst for a gut punch of a theatrical experience.
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Video Game Adaptations in Cinema: Just a Cash Grab?

The past few years have shown that video game adaptations in film have become a safe bet for Hollywood to make money, leaving fans devastated as they watch the love put into making the original games ...
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Down A Player, Harvard Women’s Soccer Ties Penn 3-3 After Three Equalizers

After a free kick from the Quakers’ goalie, the Crimson needed just six touches among three players to score its first of the game — its second-earliest goal of the season — less than three minutes in ...
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Halloween Night Frightens Men’s Soccer in 2-0 Loss to Princeton

In an especially scary Halloween weekend for Harvard football – both the European and American varieties – the men’s soccer team (4-7-3, 2-3-1 Ivy League) fell frighteningly scoreless to the Princeton ...
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Ballot Question 2 Could Give Public Defenders the Long-Sought Right to Unionize

Massachusetts voters will soon decide whether the roughly 800 attorneys and staff at the Committee for Public Counsel Services, the state’s public defense agency, can do something many other state ...
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Justice Department Sues Harvard Over Admissions Records

The U.S. Department of Justice sued Harvard on Friday, seeking a court order requiring the University to turn over admissions records requested as part of a federal civil rights review. The lawsuit ...
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HGSU-UAW Picket Disrupts Harvard GenEd Midterm, Draws Rebuke From Deming, Claybaugh

More than 20 striking members of the Harvard Graduate Student Union-United Auto Workers chanted and sounded air horns outside Emerson Hall Thursday as roughly 250 students took a GenEd midterm inside.