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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 three political leaders of Massachusetts state government say they plan to make sure abortion clinics that also provide contraception to poor people continue to get public funds even if the federal government cuts them off. "It's something we are all very concerned about. We want to
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Former Massachusetts governor William F. Weld said he expects to make it official in April that he'll challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican primaries. "I doubt there would be anything to prevent me doing this. I'm feeling more comfortable with this all the
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New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu recently called U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen "very vulnerable" while leaving the door open he might take her on in 2020 instead of running for a third two-year term as governor. Shaheen, 72, is expected to run for a third term in the
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U.S. Senator Ed Markey says he won't vote for the Green New Deal resolution that he's sponsoring when it comes up for a vote on the Senate floor Tuesday. Instead, he and other Democrats plan to vote "present," as a protest against Republicans
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Provincetown and Truro at the northern tip of Cape Cod are offering free preschool to try to keep families with children from leaving, because enrollment in the public schools is plummeting. The two towns plus neighboring Wellfleet together have lost 24 percent of their school-age children during the last 10
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Governor Charlie Baker continues to oppose so-called safe injection sites for drug addicts because they're illegal under federal law and he sees no hard evidence that that they work. The governor is in a decided minority of state officials in Massachusetts who have commented on the issue, bucking
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About 50 people marched through Worcester on Friday to demand that Massachusetts offer illegal immigrants driver's licenses. The immigrants chanted "Licensias! Ahora!" – or "Licenses! Now!" – according to the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.
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A 21-year-old Pittsfield man killed in the December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor while serving on the USS Oklahoma has been positively identified, 78 years later. Roman Sadlowski, an electrician's mate 3d class in the U.S. Navy, could not be positively identified at the time and