By filing a Declaration of Homestead at the Registry of Deeds, a Massachusetts homeowner is able to protect the equity in his home from the laws of debt collection. The Homestead has been available for more than a century and there’s really no downside – it’s purpose is to prevent…
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GOP members of the U. S. Senate Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine From the HuffingtonPost this afternoon: WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats were unable to overcome a Republican filibuster of the Paycheck Fairness Act on Tuesday, with the chamber falling two votes short of the 60 needed to end…
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The Independent Counsel/Ware Report of the Massachusetts Probation Department ordered by the State Supreme Judicial Court has been completed. The findings include: *The Hiring and Promotion Process in the Probation Departmentis Corrupt and Has Disproportionately Favored Politically-Connected Candidates *The Fraud is Systemic and Not Episodic *Commissioner O’Brien and Certain Others…
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We knew it was coming. Over on HuffingtonPost there’s a report that the “the first GOP-ordered House vote since the election” – to wit – to take away all federal funding from National Public Radio (NPR) was on tap today. The thing is according to HuffPo – “it was over before it…
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We all had dreams of what we want to be when we grew-up. A teacher… a firefighter… a doctor… Well, Betty White of Life with Elizabeth, Mary Tyler Moore, Golden Girls, Password and Saturday Night Live fame – seven-time emmy winner, iconic Senior Citizen, animal advocate extraordinaire and for some a national treasure…
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Tony Sampas photographs the “tunnels” – pedestrian walkways over the canal – that connect Lowell High School’s buildings.
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