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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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Connecticut is one of four states in the country that gives its state employees a paid day off on February 12 to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's birthday. According to The Yankee Institute, it costs the state's taxpayers approximately $10.5 million. The state gives its non-essential employees
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Former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick has suspended his campaign for president after failing to connect with voters in Iowa or New Hampshire or anywhere else. The late-starting quixotic campaign came to a halt after Patrick got less than one-half of 1 percent in the New Hampshire Democratic primary on Tuesday,
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Former New Mexico governor and two-time Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson is backing his former running mate for president. Johnson told Reason Magazine he is supporting former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld for president in 2020.
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When it comes to Advanced Placement classes in high school, Massachusetts ranks number one in the nation. For the fourth year in a row, Massachusetts bested the rest of the states in the country with one out of three members of the class of 2019 scoring a 3 or higher
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U.S. Representative Jared Golden, a Democrat who represents Maine's second congressional district, is supporting U.S. Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. Golden announced his support for Bennet on Thursday, February 6, becoming the first member of Congress to endorse Bennet'
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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg received good news in the form of a WBZ/Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll put out on Wednesday. The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana registered his best performance yet in the poll, earning 19 percent support from likely Democratic voters in the 2020 New
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A strip club manager in western Massachusetts who wanted to bring in queer and transgender strippers quit after the owners refused to go along with the plan. Bella Vendetta, who had managed the club under a previous owner before it was sold in August 2019, "said she decided to
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A New Hampshire Republican primary poll put out by Franklin Pierce earlier this week reveals that President Donald Trump holds a commanding lead. Although the Republican primaries are not receiving as much attention from the national media as the Democratic primaries, Trump is being challenged by former Massachusetts Governor Bill