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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 former lunch lady who said she was fired for allowing a student to take $8 worth of food he couldn't immediately pay for actually was giving the boy free food for months, say the food services company and the boy's mother. The 17-year-old was supposed
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A company planning to build 84 turbines off the coast of Martha's Vineyard is asking experts to come up with ways to prevent ships at sea and the proposed wind farm from harming endangered right whales. "Vineyard Wind is seeking technology firms or academic institutions to provide
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A Boston city councilor wants companies doing business with the city to have to give advance notice of work schedules to their employees or pay them more for not doing so. Michelle Wu, a councilor-at-large who lives in Roslindale, is proposing a city ordinance governing contractors with the city government
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Founding New Boston Post editor-in-chief Jennifer Braceras has joined the board of the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, a tax and spending watchdog on Beacon Hill. Braceras, of Concord, and Ann Sullivan of Dedham joined the board earlier this month, the organization announced Thursday.
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A high school lunch lady in New Hampshire was fired by the food services company she worked for after she let a student take food even though he couldn't pay for it. The company, Café Services, accused her of stealing the $8 lunch fare.
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A 51-year-old woman who manipulated a teenage lover to kill her husband in 1990 was denied a parole hearing Wednesday. The New Hampshire Executive Council voted 4-0 with one abstention to deny the hearing for Pamela Smart, according to the Eagle-Tribune of Lawrence, Massachusetts.
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The New Hampshire Senate has rejected bills aimed at plastic straws and plastic bags. Democrats who control the chamber decided to abandon the measures Wednesday after debate on floor, according to The Concord Monitor.
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A Democratic state senator in Rhode Island who supports legal abortion provided the one-vote majority to kill a bill in committee that would have removed most restrictions on late-term abortions, saying the bill "goes well beyond Roe v. Wade." The Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the bill