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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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Great Barrington's board of selectmen plans to hire a law firm to investigate a police investigation at a local public middle school seeking a graphic novel called Gender Queer. The teacher at the center of the police investigation wants to know who told police to investigate the presence
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Several Massachusetts state troopers conspired to give passing scores for commercial driver's licenses to would-be truck drivers who failed their road test in exchange for goods and services, federal prosecutors say. State troopers often sent text messages after the test describing the applicant as a "mess,"
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A legislative committee in Maine has killed a bill that would have given a state court "temporary emergency jurisdiction" over a child if "it is necessary in an emergency to protect the child … because the child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental
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Vermont Governor Phil Scott is the only Republican governors in the country who has not expressed public support for Texas Governor Greg Abbott's claim that he has a right to stop illegal immigrants from coming into the United States over Texas's border with Mexico. The statement,
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The city of Boston has hired two teams of researchers to document the city's historical ties to slavery and its effects and to provide a report for the city's Reparations Task Force. One team consists of Kerri Greenidge, a professor at Tufts University; Kendra Field, also
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The state prison off Route 2 in Concord is slated to close during the summer of 2024 because of declining prison population. The medium security prison is currently operating at about half capacity, according to a statement from the Massachusetts Department of Correction reported by WBUR.
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The Massachusetts State Ballot Law Commission has dismissed a legal challenge seeking to keep Donald Trump from appearing on the state's presidential primary ballot in March. The commission said in a nine-page decision Monday that it lacks jurisdiction to toss Trump, because his name will appear on the
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A pro-life Mass is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Saturday, January 20 at Fatima Shrine at 155 Washington Street in Brighton, followed by the rosary and a short talk. On Sunday, January 21, a reception featuring two pro-life talks is scheduled for the library of Arlington Catholic High School