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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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This winter, about 305,000 property owners in Maine will be receiving checks for $104. These property owners in the state qualified for the Homestead Exemption. Under this program, people who have lived in a home as their primary residence for more than one year as of April 1 would
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New Hampshire residents have a new gender option on their driver's licenses and other state issued IDs. As of Thursday, January 2, New Hampshire offers an X in addition to the traditional M and F for male and female on their licenses. The X indicates someone who claims
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The Massachusetts Senate has approved a bill that would create a Gender X option in addition to male and female on state driver's licenses. The vote was 39-1, with state Senator Donald Humason (R-Westfield) opposed. The other five Republicans in the state Senate voted for the bill, along
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Massachusetts has far more people than it did in 2010. The state's population increased by about 340,000 people, increasing its total to more than 6.8 million residents as of July 2019, according to U.S. Census data announced Monday, December 30. That's a 5.
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A burglar who broke into a Brockton's man's apartment seeking cash settled for a half-ounce of marijuana instead, police said. The 46-year-old victim walked into his apartment downtown about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 31 to find a stranger inside who showed him a gun
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If they receive the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, Massachusetts U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders may have a difficult time against incumbent President Donald Trump, one new poll suggests. The latest Zogby Analytics Survey found the sitting president has a 50 percent
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In 2020, Vermont will have a new approach to attract people to move to the state: Pay them. As of November 2019, the state had a mere 2.3 percent unemployment rate, making it difficult for employers in the state to find qualified job applicants. To combat this, legislation signed
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U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III stammered several times Sunday while answering a question over whether the appearance that former vice president Joe Biden's son Hunter profited from his father's high office is enough to try to prevent it from happening again. Kennedy (D-Newton) appeared