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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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As members of the Boston Trinity Academy varsity girls soccer team were traveling to a playoff game earlier this week, their coach asked them a question: Want to pray with the girls of the other team before the game?
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Cardinal Gerhard Müller minced no words when describing homophobia, saying it "simply doesn't exist" and is "an invention, an instrument of totalitarian dominion over the minds of others." "The homosexual movement doesn't have scientific arguments, so it's constructed an
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An interaction between a 10-year-old girl and an adult in a bathroom at the Target in Woburn earlier this month has become a point of dispute in the campaign over Question 3, a referendum on a portion of the Massachusetts gender-identity law. Publicly available details of the incident are sketchy.
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A waterspout in Vineyard Sound came ashore in Woods Hole on Monday morning, felling some trees. The tornado caused a gust measured at 65 miles an hour. It knocked out power and damaged chairs and other items outdoors, but caused no injuries.
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University of Massachusetts campuses will continue to allow people to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity even if state voters choose next week to get rid of a state law that makes it illegal to discriminate on the basis of gender identity in public accommodations,
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The Milton beauty parlor bikini wax case featured prominently in a radio debate on Question 3 on Thursday night, as advocates battled over the details and whether the state's gender identity law could be used to force a female spa worker to provide intimate hair removal services for
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Are the Boston Red Sox a sports club or a political-social organization? As Red Sox fans cheer on this year's stacked team – now leading a good Los Angeles Dodgers team 2-0 in the World Series – it's sad to see what Red Sox officials did to Curt
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren doesn't know Cape Cod well enough even to pronounce a prominent local place name correctly, Republican challenger Geoff Diehl said. "Maybe if she paid more attention to the Cape and the South Coast area, she would know how to pronounce Bourne,"