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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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The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts is calling for an investigation of Boston Mayor Marty Walsh for what it describes as bullying tactics several years ago to get the organizers of the St. Patrick's Day Parade in South Boston to allow organizations that openly identify as homosexual to
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A recreational marijuana store is scheduled to open on Nantucket on Thursday, August 8, now that the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission has given approval. The Green Lady Dispensary – a play on the island's nickname "Grey Lady" – needed special regulations because there is no testing laboratory on
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A left-wing challenger to U.S. Senator Ed Markey in the Democratic primary is calling for repealing the Second Amendment to the federal constitution guaranteeing the right to keep and bear arms. But an advocate for gun rights says she's missing the point.
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The mass-shootings in Texas and Ohio this past weekend took place in part because of a lack of enough gun-control legislation and Congress must have an emergency session to pass some, Massachusetts U.S. Senator Ed Markey said. Markey (D-Malden) issued a series of public statements the past few days
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A tax-and-spending watchdog organization is calling for the state Ethics Commission to investigate Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo for his use of a state government credit card. DeLeo (D-Winthrop) spent $4,745 on Chinese food for himself and his fellow legislator using a House procurement card while they were working
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One of the few prominent Republican state legislators on Beacon Hill is planning to run for mayor of Taunton. State Representative Shaunna O'Connell (R-Taunton) jumped into the race Monday shortly after Governor Charlie Baker nominated the current mayor of Taunton, Thomas Hoye Jr., to serve as interim register
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A union that represents about 300 reporters, editors, and photographers as well as business-side employees of The Boston Globe is planning to walk out of the newsroom at noon Tuesday to protest what the union considers unsatisfactory contract negotiations. Union members have been working under the terms of a contract
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City officials in Woonsocket, Rhode Island have unveiled a 7-foot-tall sculpture commemorating a campaign stop by Abraham Lincoln in 1860. Lincoln was a private citizen at the time, but a national figure because of his prominent unsuccessful bid for U.S. Senate in 1858. A local Republican businessman invited him.