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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 federal fishing administrator asked about offshore wind's effect on scalloping told a newspaper that "The damage could be significant," then took it back after a pro-wind-turbines federal agency got involved. Michael Pentony, the Greater Atlantic fishing administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, gave
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A Connecticut woman is suing Harvard University for using and profiting from two 19th century photos of two slaves she says are her ancestors. She is asking a Massachusetts court to order Harvard to turn over the photos to her and pay unspecified damages, on the grounds that the slaves
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Several hundred people showed up on Beacon Hill on Wednesday to lobby Massachusetts state legislators to vote against a conversion therapy ban, a bill that would remove remaining restrictions on abortion, and a bill that would require all public school districts to teach so-called "comprehensive" sex education if
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The Massachusetts Family Institute is planning to hold a rally outside the governor's office at the State House on Wednesday in opposition to a proposed ban on conversion therapy. The rally, scheduled for 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, is aimed primarily at Governor Charlie Baker, who
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Police don't know who scrawled anti-Semitic graffiti on dozens of gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in Fall River, but the president of a local synagogue sees a link to President Donald Trump. "We've become a nation that, instead of leading the world, we're
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A Cape Cod congressman is trying to fast-track a bill that would enable the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe to build a casino in Taunton. U.S. Representative William Keating (D-Bourne) told The Cape Cod Times that the U.S. House of Representatives could take up the bill as early as Monday,
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U.S. Senator Edward Markey came out swinging Tuesday against a Trump administration regulation that would prevent Planned Parenthood from receiving millions of dollars in federal funding, but the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts said Markey twists with the wind and isn't to be trusted. Markey headlined a
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A 20-year-old college student who choked to death during a school-sanctioned pancake-eating contest has only herself to blame, a lawyer for the school said. Caitlin Nelson was eating as many pancakes as she could during the March 2017 charity contest at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut when she began