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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 current chairman of the Yarmouth Board of Selectmen on Cape Cod was also a selectman in the town of Killington, Vermont when the town tried to secede from that state and join New Hampshire about a dozen years ago. In 1997, a change in state law by the Vermont
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Two Massachusetts state legislators have filed a bill that would require restaurant owners to pay waiters and waitresses the same minimum wage other hourly employees in the state get. Waiters and waitresses typically make most of their money in tips from customers, and state law acknowledges that by setting a
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Charlie Baker plans to become the first sitting governor of Massachusetts to visit a mosque on Friday. The governor plans to attend an afternoon prayer service at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury, according to State House News Service.
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The mayor of Framingham says she plans to raise the rainbow flag in front of city hall later this year, and she is also asking the city council to fund a director of diversity and inclusion. Mayor Yvonne Spicer used the word "diversity" six times during her first
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A minor earthquake hit the area of Templeton in central Massachusetts on Monday night, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The 1.6 Richter scale magnitude earthquake hit a little after 6 p.m. Monday, January 28, according to MassLive.com.
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Medical Examiner: During a legal abortion a doctor would definitely have to empty the skulls to get 'em through the birth canal. Assistant District Attorney: So if we could prove the skulls weren't emptied? Medical Examiner: That would mean they were probably delivered alive. Assistant District Attorney:
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A car crashed into a funeral home during a service, forcing a greeter to scurry out of the lobby, police said. A 74-year-old woman drove into the Waring-Sullivan Home of Memorial Tribute in Swansea at about 8:50 a.m. Saturday, January 26, going into the lobby and hitting a
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A 52-year-old community activist running for mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut offered a succinct reason for his candidacy during his announcement speech Monday, according to the Connecticut Post. "People say I'm delusional. That I'm crazy. I'm the smartest guy in this whole damn city,