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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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Former Massachusetts Democratic nominee for governor Jay Gonzalez has endorsed Elizabeth Warren for president. Gonzalez lost 67 to 33 percent in November 2018 to Governor Charlie Baker, a Republican.
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Skipping school to protest perceived inaction on climate change is a good idea, the president of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts said. "Young people around the world are calling on adults to join them in this fight for their very future. Science has made it clear; the
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Allowing non-citizens and underage youths to vote in local elections in Amherst would require a change in Massachusetts state law, the town's legal counsel said. Lauren F. Goldberg wrote that the cities of Cambridge, Somerville, Lowell, and Northampton have all tried to lower the voting age for local
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The town of Edgartown is challenging the fast-tracked approval by a state agency of cables needed for an offshore wind-turbine project. The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection issued what the state calls a "superseding order of conditions" earlier this month overturning a decision by the Edgartown Conservation Commission
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U.S. Senator Ed Markey has collected another endorsement from a left-of-center interest group, as he tries to stave off a possible challenge from U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III. The Sunrise Movement, a pro-Green New Deal organization, endorsed Markey on Thursday, August 22.
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An anti-Trump Connecticut woman is organizing a boycott of the state's most famous pizzeria because a co-owner has been photographed holding a "Deplorables for Trump" sign. Gary Bimonte, co-owner of Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, a well-known pizzeria in New Haven's Little Italy, also posted
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U.S. Representative Seth Moulton (D-Salem) says his now-ending campaign for president "helped chip away at the stigma of mental health issues, especially among fellow veterans," according to a news report summarizing his forthcoming withdrawal speech. Moulton was polling at 0 percent, tied for last among the 21
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Pastor and former Republican candidate for governor Scott Lively is planning to leave politics and leave Massachusetts. Lively is planning to move to Memphis, Tennessee and begin a Christian university there, according to an email newsletter cited by State House News Service.