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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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Allowing enough seal hunting to reduce the draw of great white sharks to Cape Cod isn't likely because animal rights activists and environmentalists put such emphasis on the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, federal officials said this week. That federal law outlaws hunting of seals. The
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Jared Golden lost the election for Congress in Maine on first-choice votes on election night but won it on second-choice and third-choice votes nine days later, Maine's secretary of state said. Golden, a Democrat, on Thursday, November 15 was declared the winner of Maine's Second Congressional
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A 44-year-old elephant once burned by napalm in Vietnam wandered away from an animal sanctuary in upstate New York after she realized the electric fence that ordinarily keeps her hemmed in wasn't on. The elephant, Fritha, did no harm except to a 3-ton pile of hay she encountered
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Town Meeting voters in Wayland voted 531-194 to ban selling recreational marijuana in the town on Tuesday night. If voters at the annual town election in the spring of 2019 agree, then the ban will take effect. "Some residents on the floor said marijuana doesn't fit Wayland&
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A 17-year-old who walked away from a youth detention center in New Hampshire in 1984 and was never seen again was found murdered in Tennessee in 1985 — but police are just learning that now. That's because Elizabeth Lamotte of Manchester wasn't reported missing until last year
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Less than 16 percent of teachers' union dues in several school districts in Massachusetts stays with the teachers' local union, a Pioneer Institute study found. The rest goes to state and national teachers unions that the teachers also belong to, according to the policy brief from the conservative
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Fall River residents who want to oust indicted Mayor Jasiel Correia II say they have more than enough signatures to force a recall election, and they are gathering more. The city charter requires certified signatures from 5 percent of the South Coast city's registered voters to accomplish a
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Catholic Church commentator Robert Royal says that Pope Francis's recent request that U.S. Catholic bishops meeting in Baltimore this week take no immediate additional actions to stop clergy sex abuse is head-spinning. "The Vatican knew for months that the bishops would deal with abuse at their