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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 company that owns the Lizzie Borden House in Fall River is asking a federal appeals court to order a neighboring business to stop calling itself Miss Lizzie's Coffee. U.S. Ghost Adventures, which owns the house where Lizzie and her father and step-mother used to live, claims
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A Boston City Council resolution expressing support for Muslim students in the city's public schools puts it in the context of living in a "largely white-Christian-dominated society." The resolution calls for Boston public schools to provide accommodations so that Muslims can practice their religion during the
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Members of the Quincy School Committee are mulling whether to add Lunar New Year as a school holiday next school year. Quincy has a large number of Asian students who celebrate Lunar New Year, which occurs sometime between January 21 and February 19, and a large number of families have
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Worcester officials are considering a proposal to increase the maximum age someone can begin as a city police officer because it's so much harder to recruit people to become police officers than it used to be. "We used to have thousands of people take that exam, and
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Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll plans to attend an opening reception for a photography exhibit celebrating transgenderism. The event highlights an exhibit called "This Is Trans."
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The pink, blue, and white Transgender Flag is scheduled to be raised at Newburyport City Hall on Holy Saturday and to fly all Easter weekend. Newburyport Pride is organizing the flag raising, which the mayor of Newburyport, Sean Reardon, is scheduled to speak at, according to The Newburyport Daily News.
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Federal immigration authorities arrested a 23-year-old Brazilian man wanted in his native country for failing to complete a 19-year prison sentence for armed robbery there, the agency said. The man, whom authorities did not name, had fraudulent identification documents when he was arrested Thursday, March 14 near his home in
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Some Somerville residents and city officials want utility companies to stop replacing natural gas pipes and repair them instead, in hopes of eventually getting rid of them altogether. The Somerville Public Utilities and Public Works Committee, a subcommittee of the Somerville City Council, heard a presentation this week from an