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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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Abortions after 24 weeks would be less impeded in Massachusetts and girls under 18 wouldn't have to ask their parents or a judge for permission to get one under a new bill state legislators are considering. The bill would also expand eligibility to have state funds pay for
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A western Massachusetts legislator has filed a bill that would create a new state Office of Outdoor Recreation in order to encourage people to enjoy the outdoors. Skiing, biking, fishing, horse riding, hiking, rock climbing, wildlife viewing, and hot-air ballooning all exist in Massachusetts, but not enough people know about
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The New Hampshire House of Representatives has rejected a bill that would have repealed a 2015 state law giving abortion clinics the right to draw a 25-foot buffer zone to keep anti-abortion protesters away. New Hampshire House Bill 124, sponsored by nine Republicans and no Democrats, called for repealing the
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A 680-pound grizzly bear named Ozzy has picked the New England Patriots to defeat the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LIII on Sunday, February 3, officials at a Montana zoo say. Ozzy was given his choice between two cakes, one decorated with Patriots symbols and colors, and the other
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Some of the Democrats who control the Connecticut legislature are open to eliminating the state's estate tax on the assets of wealthy residents who die, saying it's driving older rich people out of the state. Newly elected state Senator Will Haskell (D-Westport), a 22-year-old recent graduate
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Two girls who allowed two boys to put dark makeup on their faces and then posted a photo of the results online are being punished by their high school in north central Connecticut. "The two underclassman girls pictured had been at home playing 'make-up' with two boys,
Commentary
The Covington Catholic confrontation at the Lincoln Memorial is a story of high school kids enduring repeated abuse of their religious and political beliefs and then responding with school chants to drown out the abusers. They did nothing wrong and not even much noteworthy.
Commentary
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam's political life is pretty close to non-viable after an image of his 1984 medical school yearbook surfaced showing a picture of two men standing side-by-side, one in blackface and the other in a white Ku Klux Klan outfit. You can't tell from