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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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Several left-of-center student groups at Harvard College are calling for a boycott of the student newspaper because a reporter asked a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman for comment about a rally on campus calling for the agency to be abolished. Editors of The Harvard Crimson maintain they were just
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The ABC television affiliate in Providence has fired a former Rhode Island state legislator who sold advertising for the station because she is joining President Donald Trump's re-election campaign in the state as an unpaid volunteer. Doreen Costa, a Republican who served as a Rhode Island state representative
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A candidate for mayor of Brockton who voted against a sanctuary-city resolution earlier this year cancelled a fund raiser after a supporter organizing the event host posted a message online saying "America speak English or go back home" over an image of the candidate's campaign sign.
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Using the word "bitch" in a negative sense would become illegal and subject to a fine if a new bill before the Massachusetts Legislature becomes law and takes effect. Massachusetts House Bill 3719 states:
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Climate change is worse than Original Sin, the Great Flood, the bubonic plague, World War I, World War II, and international communism, according to an expert planning to speak on Cape Cod this coming weekend. "This is the largest crisis humans have ever faced — how to assist the flourishing
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A candidate for mayor of Brockton says he won't raise property taxes as much as state law allows if he is elected. Jimmy L. Pereira, an urban planner, made the pledge during a debate this past week.
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About 32 percent of female undergraduates at Harvard College who responded to a survey earlier this year said they had experienced nonconsensual sexual contact – about the same percentage as five years ago, when it was 31 percent. "I'm profoundly saddened and disturbed that we find ourselves after
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Hampshire College, retooling itself after a near-death experience several months ago, is getting rid of traditional majors and departments and instead letting students design their own curriculum. "Hampshire is removing all barriers across fields of study to create a truly transformative liberal arts college: no majors, no departments, no