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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 legislative committee plans to hold a hearing next week on a proposed amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution that would change all uses of the word "he" to "they." State Representative Mindy Domb is the chief sponsor of Massachusetts House Bill 80, which states:
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A bill that would create a "Gender X" option for driver's licenses and birth certificates in Massachusetts is scheduled to get a hearing before a legislative committee on Beacon Hill on Thursday. Parents would get to choose "X" for sex rather than male or
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U.S. Senator Ed Markey followed through on his decision not to vote for his own Green New Deal resolution on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday, voting "present" instead. A procedural vote to take up the resolution failed 0-57, with 43 senators voting present. All 53
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Opponents of thin-film plastic bags used at grocery stores and drug stores are trying to ban them statewide and impose a 10-cent fee on other types of bags, too. In recent years some individual towns and cities in Massachusetts have banned thin-film plastic bags through Town Meeting or the city
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Massachusetts Citizens for Life is planning a rally this coming weekend against a bill that would remove most remaining restrictions on abortion in Massachusetts. The so-called ROE Act would make it easier to get abortions after 24 weeks and would remove a requirement that underage girls get permission from their
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The Massachusetts Senate plans to vote Thursday on a bill that would ban conversion therapy for minors. Senate President Karen Spilka (D-Ashland) said the bill was voted out of committee Monday, March 25 and will go to the Senate floor Thursday, March 28, according to video of a press conference
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An undergraduate dormitory at Harvard College will not display a portrait of the man it's mostly named for when it re-opens in the fall of 2019. The portrait of Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943) and his wife Anna has hung for years in the dining hall of Lowell House,
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A waiter at Silver Street Tavern in Waterville, Maine this past weekend got a $2,000 tip from a customer. The waiter, Zack Denis, said he split it with waiters and waitresses and kitchen workers