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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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Companies hoping to build offshore wind turbines in Massachusetts waters should commit to using labor unions to build them, U.S. Senator Edward Markey said this week. Markey wrote and publicized letters to the companies on Tuesday, December 30.
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In Vermont, 34 people used the state's aid-in-dying law over the most recent two-year span of data, the Vermont Department of Health reports. The report includes data from June 30, 2017 to June 30, 2019.
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Automatic voter registration begins in Massachusetts on Wednesday, January 1 for eligible citizens who interact with MassHealth, the Health Connector, and the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. In 2018, Governor Charlie Baker signed automatic voter registration into law for Massachusetts, making the Bay State the 14th state to pass such
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Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick will not appear on the Democratic Party's ballot in the 2020 presidential primary in Michigan. As MassLive.com reports, Patrick filed more than 13,000 signatures to appear on the March 10 ballot in the state, which is more than the 11,345
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Rhode Island health officials warn the flu is now "widespread" in the state, WPRI reports. The Rhode Island Department of Health made the announcement on Thursday, December 26. In response, unvaccinated health care workers are mandated to wear masks during direct contact with their patients.
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Massachusetts public health officials are interested in finding organizations that can set up facilities to monitor people after illicit drug use. They would be called "medical observation and monitoring services," as The Boston Globe reported Tuesday. The facilities would feature a nursing staff and clinicians. They would be
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At the start of the new year, minimum wage workers in Massachusetts will see a slight pay raise. In June 2018, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed legislation that is set to raise the statewide minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2023 for non-tipped workers and $6.75 hourly for
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A Vermont literary magazine highlighting "rural LGBTQ+ and [people of color] voices" is offering a prize honoring the memory of a former slave who composed a poem about a colonial-era attack by Indians on a white settlement. Lucy Terry Prince (c. 1730-1821), a slave who was purchased and