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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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Democrats' efforts to force President Donald Trump to turn over his tax returns, force Fox News to explain why it didn't publish details that might have made Trump look bad, get around the Electoral College, and pack the federal Supreme Court amount to attempts at "destroying
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A state commission has started a task force "to develop detailed recommendations and potential interventions" to try to get parents in Massachusetts to accept homosexuality and transgenderism. "But because we may never live in a society in which all families are accepting, it is even more critical
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Boston city councilors want school police officers in the city to be able to maximize their pensions at age 60 instead of 65. All 13 city councilors this week supported the change, which city officials said would increase the city's budget in fiscal year 2021 by $375,000
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The Vermont Senate has passed a proposed amendment to the state's constitution that would enshrine legal abortion as defined by the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. Senators approved the measure 28-2 at 2:58 p.m. Thursday, April 4, well more than the two-thirds
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Five pitchers for the University of Massachusetts at Lowell varsity baseball team issued 18 walks, hits three batters, and threw eight wild pitches en route to a 17-6 home loss to the University of Rhode Island. Rhode Island (11-13) scored 17 runs on only 10 hits, all singles, while beating
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A Boston chef who plans to make marijuana-infused ice cream has gotten the green light from Framingham. Cloud Creamery, which calls itself "Boston's first Cannabis Ice Cream company," plans to open January 1 in a 1,200-square-foot space at 119 Herbert Street.
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A tire that separated from a logging truck struck and killed a Maine state police officer who had pulled over on Interstate 95 to help a motorist whose car had spun out in snowy conditions. Detective Ben Campbell, 31, was on his way to direct training when he came upon
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State officials are allocating $383,000 to provide emergency call boxes, satellite phones, and all-terrain vehicles to help victims of shark attacks on the Outer Cape – but nothing so far to prevent them. Six Outer Cape towns are getting the money, including Truro and Wellfleet, where major shark attacks took