Menu
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.
News
A Cape Cod property owner who can't build a house on a lot she owns because of local wetlands regulations has not suffered a regulatory taking of her property and the town government doesn't have to pay her, the Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled. The court
Around The Web
Autocrats are replacing democrats worldwide because people are concluding that the centrist parties they turned to for years aren't delivering on basic services like protecting national borders, columnist Patrick Buchanan writes. President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency on Friday, February 15 to take money
Around New England
Albania under the Communists was the cleanest, greenest, and unhappiest place Lowell Sun columnist Peter Lucas had ever seen when he visited in August 1986. The country had no cars for anyone except the rulers, and almost no airplanes.
News
Former Massachusetts governor William Weld is planning to challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican primary, in hopes of winning the party's nomination or at least weakening Trump. Weld announced his likely candidacy Friday morning during a speech in Bedford, New Hampshire.
Around New England
Rhode Island's governor and attorney general are supporting a bill that would ban what it calls "assault weapons," including certain semiautomatic rifles and pistols. The bill would prohibit semiautomatic rifles that have "a fixed magazine capacity exceeding 10 rounds" or that can accept a
Around New England
A 32-year veteran of the Attleboro Police Department talked for about 45 minutes with a 21-year-old man intent on jumping from a 70-foot-high roof, eventually persuading the man to climb down a fire truck ladder instead. The man had been taken by ambulance to a hospital near South Attleboro Square
Around New England
Bill deBlasio, New York City's left-wing Democratic mayor, is planning to visit Nashua, New Hampshire on Friday, February 15, anticipating a possible run for president in 2020. DeBlasio, according to the Nashua Telegraph, "believes the nation's recent leftward political shift may allow him to be
Around New England
The tiny house on a 0.34-acre lot in the South End of Portsmouth, New Hampshire is right near the water, and can be replaced either by a substantial home or subdivided lots. Portsmouth is a hot commodity in real estate right now.