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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 Maura Healey has nominated a former longtime romantic partner to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The nominee, Gabrielle Wolohojian, 63, who owned the four-bedroom condominium in Charlestown where she and Healey lived as a same-sex couple for more than a decade, has served on the Massachusetts Appeals Court
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Milton voters have rejected a re-zoning proposal that would have increased density in the town. The vote was 4,346 for Yes to 5,115 for No – or 46 percent to 54 percent. Milton Town Clerk Susan Galvin announced the results on a live YouTube feed at about 10:20
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The number of pets whose owners gave them up to the Berkshire Humane Society's animal shelter increased 95 percent between 2022 and 2023, largely because of the poor economy, the society's head said. The animal shelter had 1,453 animals in 2023.
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Allowing Massachusetts towns and cities to increase taxes on lodging, restaurant meals, and owning a car is "very exciting," a western Massachusetts mayor said. Nicole LaChapelle, the mayor of Easthampton, expressed support for Governor Maura Healey's proposal to enable local officials to increase certain taxes.
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William Galvin, the Massachusetts Secretary of State, is serving as acting governor of the commonwealth from Friday morning, February 9 through Sunday, February 11, a spokesman for Galvin said. "The Governor is on a personal trip until Sunday. The LG is attending to a family matter," said Karissa
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A public school can't celebrate transgenderism with flags, posters, and teaching material and then censor the other side, a lawyer for a Middleborough student who wore a T-shirt saying "There are only two genders" told a federal appeals court Thursday. "The school decided this subject
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The New Hampshire House of Representatives has voted down a proposed measure that sought to enshrine a right to abortion in the state constitution. The House voted 193-184 in favor of the measure, but that's less than half of the 400-member body. A state constitutional amendment in New
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A Connecticut columnist who opposes former president Donald Trump noted that Trump's base "lies with followers who don't have college degrees." Then he added: "I've always said you'd have to be really stupid to fall for all his scams.