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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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U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III made a speech in Boston recently criticizing President Donald Trump's vision of capitalism and saying it leads young people to embrace socialism. He called for what he called "moral capitalism." Yet columnist Peter Lucas points out that the Brookline
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Former Massachusetts state senator died from an overdose of a sleep-inducing drug, but the medical examiner could not determine if it was accidental or suicide. Acute pentobarbital intoxication was the cause of death, the Massachusetts medical examiner's office said, according to MassLive.com.
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Harvard College is discriminating against students on the basis of sex by trying to force single-sex student organizations to go co-ed, a federal lawsuit claims. Two fraternities, two sororities, and three male undergraduates are asking a federal judge to issue an injunction forcing Harvard not to pressure students against joining
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The local Human Rights Commission in Durham, New Hampshire is recommending that the town stop putting up a Christmas tree on a public park after this year because it might be associated with Christianity. Members of the commission, which last year successfully pushed the town council to declare Columbus Day
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A hunter on an island in Maine who had sought a big eight-point buck for four years finally got a clean shot at him — and then the chase was on. And on, and on, and on.
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A fifth former Massachusetts state trooper has pleaded guilty to putting in for overtime pay for shifts he didn't work. Retired trooper Paul Cesan of Southwick received $29,287 in fraudulent overtime pay, according to WCVB-TV Channel 5.
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A Mashpee man who has been flying his helicopter to and from his home on Ockway Bay since 2007 can't keep doing it, the town's zoning board said. Neighbors have complained about the noise and vibrations the helicopter causes, according to The Cape Cod Times.
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A late law professor at Hampshire College who taught social justice likely sexually harassed multiple females, college officials said. In response the college has removed his name from a room dedicated to his memory and from an endowed fund in his name.