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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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Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker took criticism from two anti-tax groups last week, but so far he isn't responding. Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance pointed out that Beacon Hill leaders have proposed myriad new taxes during the past month, including one (on Airbnb rentals) that the state Legislature approved and the
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At least eight new taxes have appeared on Beacon Hill recently, either as proposals or (in one case) enacted policy. Most have appeared in public during the past month or so, since around mid-December 2018.
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DC Comics plans to release a new comic book in March that depicts Jesus of Nazareth as having failed so badly the first time he came to earth that God the Father sends him back to learn how to do it right from a superhero by sharing a two-bedroom apartment
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo should be denied communion and possibly excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church for signing into a law a bill that allows abortion up to the point of birth, a Washington D.C. pastor says. "It is time to end the charade, even the lie,
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Endangered right whales haven't been dying lately, but that might change because there's no one from the federal government to count them, according to environmentalists. The partial shutdown of the federal government led to furloughing of employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, so the
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Police raided four homes in eastern Massachusetts where they say marijuana plants were being illegally grown for a drug trafficking enterprise. Three people are expected to face charges in connection with the raids, which took place at one home in Braintree, two homes in Quincy, and one home in Westford,
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About 50 people protested Wednesday against Bristol County Sheriff Tom Hodgson's policy of having sheriff's office personnel run the names of new inmates in the database of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, according to the New Bedford Standard Times. The idea is to see
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Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker wants to give police the ability to stop drivers for not wearing a seat belt. It's known as a "primary enforcement" measure.