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Matt McDonald, a Boston-area native, has decades of experience as a reporter, editor, and copy editor. His work has appeared in The Mashpee Messenger, Cape Cod News, and The Norfolk Boomerang.
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The 2020 U.S. Senate race in Maine is competitive, according to one newly released poll. The poll put out by Colby College on Tuesday, February 18 showed that in a hypothetical matchup, incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Susan Collins and Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon, a Democrat, are virtually
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Another Republican has announced he is running for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. Kevin O'Connor, a 58-year-old lawyer from Dover, posted a video to his YouTube page announcing his run.
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Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has signed a bill into law that is designed to keep disabled people from being abused. Baker signed Nicky's Law (Massachusetts Senate Bill 2367) into effect on Tuesday, February 18. The law will create a database of caretakers who abuse their clients, as MassLive.
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A 27-year-old semi-employed actor is running for mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island on what he calls the Bagel & Cream Cheese Party – to bring both sides together. Carbone, who grew up in Cranston and is currently living with his mother between gigs, says if he's elected he'
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The only governor in the United States who has endorsed Michael Bloomberg for president is defending him in the wake of a withering news story in The Washington Post detailing allegations that Bloomberg often made lewd and demeaning comments to women who worked for him, criticized women for marrying and
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Harrison Ford's recent talk-show attacks on President Donald Trump reverse his previous stance that celebrities shouldn't comment publicly on politics. Ford, 77, yesteryear star of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies, came out swinging against Trump last week when given an opening by ABC'
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Massachusetts native Michael Bloomberg will be on the Democratic presidential primary debate stage on Wednesday night. The former three-term New York City mayor, who grew up in Medford, Massachusetts, earned his place in the debate thanks to an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll that found him with 19 percent support
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The executive editor of The Washington Post, which adopted the motto "Democracy Dies in Darkness" three months after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, has been named the main speaker at Harvard University's graduation. Marty Barron, who served as executive editor of The Boston Globe