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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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While just about every U.S. House of Representatives member from New England is a foregone-conclusion pro-impeachment vote this week, a first-term congressman from Maine is under extraordinary pressure. U.S. Representative Jared Golden, a Democrat, lost the 2018 congressional race to the Republican incumbent according to vote-counting procedures used
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The police chief in Burlington, Vermont resigned Monday. December 16 after admitting he created an anonymous Twitter account to respond to a critic of his, as VTDigger reports. Chief Brandon del Pozo admitted to it on Friday, December 13, leading several members of Burlington's city council to call
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The Boston Globe rejected an anti-impeachment ad from a group that supports President Donald Trump, according to the group. The pro-Trump, organization, America First Policies, is buying ads in newspapers that cover districts represented by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives that were carried by Trump in 2016.
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Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could escape the death penalty if a federal appeals overturns the sentence because of pre-trial social media postings of jurors suggesting they may have been biased. An Obama appointee on the First Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston had what the
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren's proposed 2 percent wealth tax on very-high-net-worth people would shrink the U.S. economy, a new study found. According to CNBC, "Warren's wealth tax would also impose a 2% tax on net worth between $50 million and $1 billion and
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Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced his 2020 presidential bid nearly a month ago and still lacks any significant support. Patrick, who served as Massachusetts's governor from 2007 to 2015, entered the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination on November 14, according to WBUR. It
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On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot up Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, killing 26 people, including 20 first graders. Seven years later, former Sandy Hook students who survived the mass-shooting are now teen-agers. As the Associated Press reports, some of them are now gun control and
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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns helped kick off a $60 million fund-raising campaign to try to save his alma mater Hampshire College. "This is my family," Burns said during an appearance on campus Tuesday, December 3, according to MassLive.com.