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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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A petition drive seeking to make it possible to stop public funding of abortion in Massachusetts has come up short on signatures, meaning voters won't see a referendum on it in 2022. Thomas Harvey, chairman of the Massachusetts Alliance to Stop Taxpayer Funded Abortion, announced Tuesday that petition
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An anti-Trump high school principal in Abington, Massachusetts tried to cancel the school's annual U.S.A. Day earlier this week but backed down after a member of the town's board of health called her out on it, the board of health member said. The principal
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The Massachusetts state government plans to spend an additional $1.5 billion on public schools over the next seven years. The bill, which Governor Charlie Baker signed Tuesday, November 26, is designed to reduce disparities among rich and poor communities in the state when it comes to public education spending.
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Several professors at Harvard Business School have expressed opposition to trying to cajole the university that employs them to sell off stock in companies that produce oil and natural gas. The student newspaper at Harvard College, The Harvard Crimson, interviewed the professors in the wake of a midfield pro-divestment protest
Commentary
What will Harvard and Yale do to students who occupied the field during the Harvard-Yale football game this past weekend and almost delayed it to the point where it couldn't be finished? Nothing.
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Public housing residents should be able to have deadbolts on their doors and guns in their apartments even though local housing officials disagree, said Ben Carson, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Carson made the comments in the wake of two high-profile homicides in multi-story public housing apartment
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An energy analyst says a late decision by the New York Attorney General to drop two of four fraud allegations against ExxonMobil in a lawsuit over climate change bodes ill for the Massachusetts Attorney General's case against the oil giant. On Thursday, November 7, a lawyer for the
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Lobstermen working off the coast of Cape Cod found dead lobsters in their traps earlier this fall, leading some observers to conclude that warmer weather is causing higher water temperatures which is leading to less oxygen in the water. Marine animals sense low oxygen levels in the water and move