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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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President Joe Biden has a much smaller lead among young voters over former President Donald Trump than he did this time four years ago, according to a poll by the Institute of Politics at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Biden, a Democrat, leads Trump, a Republican, by
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Harvard University is planning to restore five gates into Arnold Arboretum in order to improve their beauty and accessibility. The gates have deteriorated since the 281-acre botanical public park in the Jamaica Plain and Roslindale neighborhoods of Boston opened in 1872, said Danny Schissler, a Harvard employee and head of
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New Hampshire candidate for governor Kelly Ayotte called Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey "soft on crime" after police said a man driving a car with Massachusetts license plates robbed a mailman in southern New Hampshire. "Shocker: Mass. license plate involved in Nashua robbery," Ayotte said on the
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Federal immigration authorities say they recently arrested in Lowell a 20-year-old Brazilian man accused of raping a minor after a Milford District Court judge "failed to honor" a request to detain him. U.S. Border Patrol initially arrested the unnamed man July 28, 2021 along with his father
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The leading funds-in-hand candidate among GOP contenders seeking to take on U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren this fall calls himself "a Charlie Baker-type" Republican and supports abortion and same-sex marriage. John Deaton, 56, a lawyer originally from Michigan, said he "doesn't support any of the
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The mayor of Attleboro's proposal to create a Diversity Committee in city government drew sharp criticism from the lone black member of the city council earlier this week. Jonathan Tavares, a city councilor at large and a black man, noted that the city government already has a Council
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Massachusetts state officials are accepting feedback about how the Healey administration should best spend some of an expected $50 million to provide electric vehicle charging stations to try to persuade people to give up gasoline-powered cars. The money comes from the federal government through the American Rescue Plan Act of
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The Mayflower II is expected to make a voyage from Mystic Seaport Museum on the south coast of Connecticut to Plymouth, Massachusetts this coming week. The wooden sailing ship, launched in 1956, is a replica of the ship that took the Pilgrims from England to the New World in 1620.