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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 teacher certified by the United Nations to teach about climate change has been named science educator of the year in Barnstable County by the Massachusetts Association of Science Teachers. Richard Gifford, who goes by Rick, teaches in the Provincetown public schools.
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An apparently faithful reader of the Providence Journal was upset by the appearance of an anti-impeachment column during the vacation of the newspaper's editorial pages editor. The column by Jay Ambrose of Tribune News Service, which was published in the Providence Journal on Sunday, November 3, addresses the
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Youth library card holders will no longer have to pay fines to Boston public libraries for overdue books starting Friday, November 1, the mayor's office has announced. "Youth card holders will not face monetary penalties for returning books late, although they will still be required to return
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Boston's mayor is looking for a Youth Poet Laureate for the state's largest city. The position, which has never existed before, would "be an advocate for poetry, language, and the arts," according to a written statement released this week by Mayor Marty Walsh'
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Some of the same interest groups that successfully pushed for a $15-an-hour minimum wage and other concessions to organized labor in Massachusetts are now looking to increase taxes on businesses in the state to pay for transportation improvements. Raise Up Massachusetts, which supports a proposed amendment to the state constitution
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A further-left challenger of U.S. Representative Stephen Lynch says his past doubts about impeaching President Donald Trump should disqualify him from chairing the House committee that would coordinate that process. Brianna Wu, who lost to Lynch in 2018 but is challenging him again, released a video Thursday showing clips
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Environmental activists in Rhode Island are suing to try to get the state's courts to force the state's environmental agency to take actions against climate change that the activists think the state should take. A state superior court judge in Providence wasn't immediately impressed
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The Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Bourne has launched a training facility on its campus for building offshore wind turbines with about $1.73 million in grants from the state and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. The training platform at the end of a pier on the Cape Cod Canal includes