New England Public Radio News

01/26/2009

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has said he will seek a one percent increase in the state meals and hotels tax, to help cities and towns offset cuts to local aid he'll be making this week. An additional local meals tax...

01/26/2009

An Adams, Massachusetts Catholic church that closed in December and has been the subject of an extended protest is now being celebrated in a new calendar. WFCR's Tina Antolini has more.

01/26/2009

A spokesman for Sal DiMasi says the speaker of the Massachusetts House decided to resign just three weeks after being re-elected to the post because he didn't want to finish his term and felt it was better to quit before the...

01/21/2009

Now that President Obama is in office, Congress is expected to quickly pass several pieces of legislation to address some of the country's most pressing problems. Congressman Richard Neal (D) of Springfield, Massachusetts, was...

01/21/2009

New Englanders gathered in living rooms, bars, classrooms, and movie theaters to watch the inauguration of Barack Obama as the nation's 44th president. WFCR's Tina Antolini was at the Academy of Music in Northampton, MA, were 800...

01/20/2009

The Inauguration of the 44th American president may have been a notable day in US history but as WFCR's Jill Kaufman reports, on the day the country's first African American president was sworn in, some people were just going...

01/20/2009

Reenactors of an all African American military unit from Massachusetts that won praise during the Civil War were among the marchers in Tuesday's inaugural parade.

01/20/2009

November's presidential election inspired unprecedented interest from the nation's youth, and thousands of young people from around the country have traveled to Washington, DC, for today's inauguration. as WFCR's Tina Antolini...

01/20/2009

Millions across the world watched Tuesday's inauguration when Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States... And, as WFCR's Tina Antolini reports, President Obama's election brought new hope to some recent...

01/19/2009

UMASS 19th century history and African American studies professor Manisha Sinha frames the long road from the abolitionists to the Obama campaign workers.

01/16/2009

Massachusetts lawmakers have filed a bill they say would prevent "data mining" by pharmaceutical companies.

01/16/2009

Federal agents have arrested three men in connection with the fire that destroyed a Springfield, Massachusetts church the day after Barack Obama's presidential victory.WFCR's Tina Antolini reports.

01/15/2009

Officials are still trying to figure out how best to implement Massachusetts' new law decriminalizing the possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. Several stipulations in the measure -- passed by voter referendum last...

01/15/2009

The Obama presidential transition team has announced that one of the first executive orders the President-Elect will issue is the closure of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But doing so is not as simple as a...

01/15/2009

Members of the Massachusetts House and Senate have voted to give Governor Deval Patrick expanded 9-C powers which will allow him to cut additional things from the budget the state is now operating on--including financial aid to the...

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