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What State Is Rhode Island In?
Rhode Island natives get lots of funny questions when people not from Rhode Island find out they come from there. A lot…
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Matt McDonald
Mashpee
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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MA politics, civic life
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Mashpee
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Pregnant Teen-Ager Says Christian Schools Need To Forgive If They Are Truly Pro-Life
The senior at a Christian school in Maryland acknowledges she committed sin. But though she is keeping her baby, she says her…
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Unwanted Turkey Shooting on Private Property May Make Animal Planet Show
A woman in Antrim, New Hampshire was livid when a hunter shot a turkey on her land. But it's not…
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Turns Out You __Can__ Fight City Hall … With Bed Bugs
An angry man let loose 100 bed bugs in the city hall in Augusta, Maine. An exterminator was brought in.…
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Dunkin’ Donuts Threatens Local Coffee Shop Over Tongue-in-Cheek Promotion
Mike's Coffee, a local coffee shop in North Attleborough, Massachusetts, put a sign up saying North Attleborough "runs on…
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Dartmouth Professor Concerned About Fake-News Russia-Trump Stories on Internet
The Dartmouth College professor said a lot of attention is being paid to conservative conspiracy theories, but not enough to unlikely tales…
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1980 Letter from B.U. Graduate Student Doctor May Have Inadvertently Fueled Opioid Epidemic
The one-paragraph letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine was widely interpreted by doctors as showing that opioids posed…
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Providence Airport Attracting Bevy of Airlines, New Flights
T.F. Green Airport in Warwick, Rhode Island is in the process of getting new flights to Europe, the Caribbean, and other…
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Connecticut Exodus Continues — Et Tu, Aetna?
The insurance giant that has called Hartford, Connecticut home for 150 years is close to negotiating a deal to move its headquarters…
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Massachusetts Teachers Association Disses Teacher of the Year
Sydney Chaffee, who lives in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and teaches ninth grade at a charter school in Dorchester, was recently…
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New Hampshire on the Verge of Legalizing Sale of Firecrackers
New Hampshire outlawed firecrackers sales in 2004, and a bill last year to make selling them legal again was vetoed by the…
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New Hampshire Second In Opioid Overdose Rate in Country
An expert who spoke at Dartmouth College blamed the health care industry for the current crisis for pushing opioids as painkillers without…
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Man Arrested on Drug Charge Sticks Out Tongue for Booking Photo
The 27-year-old told a police officer in Hampstead, New Hampshire that he only smoked the marijuana in his car in…
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Cocoanut Grove Fire Survivor Dies At Age 90
The recent resident of Keene, New Hampshire was 15 when she went with her parents, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend's…
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Yale Destroys Graduate Students’ Protest Encampment
A chainsaw and some other equipment made quick work of the encampment outside the office of the president of Yale University, designed…
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New Hampshire Governor Saves Mama and Three Little Bears
Governor Chris Sununu expressed opposition to a New Hampshire Fish and Game Department decision to kill the mother bear and her three…
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Fidelity Investments Leaning Toward Climate Change Reports
The Boston-based investment giant "may support shareholder proposals calling for reports on sustainability, renewable energy and environmental impact issues"…
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Transgender Teen Tromps On Rule To Get Into Boy Scouts, Disses Boy Scouts on Way Out
The central Massachusetts high school student born as a girl now identifies as a boy, but joined a Boy Scouts troop two…
