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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.
Around New England
Three state legislators are pushing for Massachusetts to issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens. State Senator Brendan Crighton (D-Lynn), state Representative Christine Barber (D-Somerville), and state Representative Tricia Farley-Bouvier (D-Pittsfield) on Wednesday, January 23 introduced a bill to accomplish that called the the Work and Family Mobility Act,
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The first so-called "resort casino" in Massachusetts is bringing in far less revenue than anticipated, leading operators of two casinos in Connecticut to conclude that it's not as much of a threat as they once thought. MGM Springfield averaged only about $23 million per month during
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Maine's new Democratic governor has decided to pull the state out of a program designed to make poor people who qualify for health insurance from the government through Medicaid to work 80 hours a month. Governor Janet Mills reversed the course taken by former governor Paul LePage, a
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Pro-carbon-tax Democratic presidential hopeful Jay Inslee has brought his message about climate change to New Hampshire, site of the first primary in the 2020 presidential race. Inslee, 67, the second-term Democratic governor of Washington state, mentioned the term "climate change" 21 times during a 25-minute speech at the
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Lowell Sun columnist Peter Lucas finds new U.S. Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) fun, but also says she is using "the old socialist bag of tricks that has destroyed more than one country." He also wonders how three unimpeded left-wing women on the same committee in Congress
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The founder of the world's most famous road race that isn't a marathon has died. Tommy Leonard, who founded the Falmouth Road Race and decided it should go from one bar (in Woods Hole) to another (in Falmouth Heights), died Wednesday, January 16, according to the
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WASHINGTON D.C. — Amid tens of thousands at the March for Life, Emanuel Donovan of Wakefield carried one of the two posts holding up the Arlington Catholic sign. "I'm here because I believe in the rights of the unborn. We need to speak for them. We are
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Former state representative Jim Lyons won an upset victory to become chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party on Thursday night. Lyons, who was the most conservative member of the state Legislature before losing a re-election bid this past November, won the state party committee vote 47-30 over Brent Anderson, the