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SALEM — On a "momentous day" when a divided Congress was poised to impeach the president for only the third time in U.S. history, U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton held a Facebook town hall Wednesday morning to say he planned to vote "yes" on the two articles before the House of Representatives.

Since 1996, the Essex National Heritage Area has presented the region’s history, nature and culture as a form of national park, but its federal funding could end within the next two years.

SALEM — Congressman Seth Moulton paid tribute Tuesday on the floor of the House of Representatives to Pete Frates, the Beverly man whose struggle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) helped popularize the Ice Bucket Challenge.

An additional 4,000 Afghan interpreters who helped U.S. troops in Afghanistan could receive Special Immigrant Visas, thanks to a provision included in the National Defense Authorization Act the House passed last week.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — When the average Massachusetts driver thinks about what it costs to own a car, they probably lists the obvious costs: car payments, insurance, gas and maintenance.

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Development Regional Administrator David Tille joined Congressman Seth Moulton, and Lynn Mayor Thomas M. McGee to tour a home at 18 Jefferson St. owned by Richard Gaivin, which recently completed lead remediation work utilizing HUD Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control grant funding that the city received.

It’s Thursday morning, and millions of cars are parked in millions of driveways all over Massachusetts, gassed up and ready for their daily commutes. Car payments, insurance, E-ZPass and gas: These are the kinds of things most of us think about when we consider the cost of driving.

A mere ten years ago, Boston politics didn’t seem all that different from a century earlier.

Men—primarily white, Catholic men—led the city’s transactional, tribal political machinery, where what you get is about who you know, and who you owe.