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Maura Tracy Healey (born February 8, 1971) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 73rd governor of Massachusetts since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as Massachusetts Attorney General from 2015 to 2023 and was elected governor in 2022, defeating the Republican nominee, former state representative Geoff Diehl.
James Michael Curley (November 20, 1874 – November 12, 1958) was an American Democratic politician from Boston, Massachusetts.He served four terms as mayor of Boston from 1914 to 1955.
Whig cartoon showing the effects of unemployment on a family that has portraits of Democratic Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren on the wall. The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that began a major depression (not to be confused with the Great Depression), which lasted until the mid-1840s.
[162] [163] In 2016 New York and California became the first states to pass legislation that would gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour in each state, [164] [165] followed by Massachusetts in 2018. [166] In April 2014, the U.S. Senate debated the minimum wage on the federal level by way of the Minimum Wage Fairness Act.
The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) is an American government-backed insurer of credit unions in the United States, one of two agencies that provide deposit insurance to depositors in U.S. depository institutions, the other being the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which insures commercial banks and savings institutions.
William Shirley (2 December 1694 – 24 March 1771) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of the British American colonies of Massachusetts Bay and the Bahamas.
His mother may have been the sister of Minister John White, who help found and fund the Dorchester Company that became the colony of Massachusetts Bay. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] According to Goff, Gardner may have been chosen through family ties to head the 1623 Cape Ann Colony, which was a "fishing station and saltworks" whose goal was to ship seafood to ...
From 2002 to 2008, The Sun was a printed daily newspaper distributed in New York City. [3] [4] It debuted on April 16, 2002, claiming descent from, and adopting the name, motto, and masthead of, the earlier New York paper The Sun (1833–1950). [5] It became the first general-interest broadsheet newspaper to be started in New York City in ...