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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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Some fifth-graders and sixth-graders in the town of Windsor, Vermont were given a survey asking whether they have engaged in sexual relations, what gender they identify with, and what gender their sexual partners identify with. The survey was given to students by a nonprofit organization called WISE, of Lebanon, New
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The Democratic nominee for governor of Vermont is promising to let the Trump administration hear it and feel it over a proposal by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to define biological sex as male and female under federal law. Christine Hallquist, a biological male who identifies
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Four middle-school students in Plaistow, New Hampshire got sick after eating chocolates laced with marijuana that one of the children brought to school, the superintendent said. One of the students had to go to the hospital for observation, while the other three were treated by the school nurse and released,
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Elizabeth Warren's much-pilloried DNA test rollout and Harvard's continuing admissions trial show that identity politics is eating itself, says former Harvard history professor Niall Ferguson. "Savor last week. It may mean that we have reached a long overdue turning point," Ferguson writes in a
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren equated a ballot question vote seeking to repeal a state statute that prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity in public accommodations with hate. "Yes on 3 is No on hate," Warren said during a campaign stop Monday, according to MassLive.com.
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren accused Republican challenger Geoff Diehl of attending a rally sponsored by an anti-Muslim hate group during a debate Friday night. Her source for the description of the rally sponsor is the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is itself a hate group, as well as a
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Geoff Diehl and Elizabeth Warren went hammer and tong after each other during a lively television debate Friday night. Diehl right out of the gate jumped on Warren's recent rollout of a DNA test that she says shows she is fractionally American Indian.
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The high cost of college can be addressed by stopping the federal government from guaranteeing banks no-risk student loans, congressional candidate Rick Green said. Green, a Republican, debated with Lori Trahan, a Democrat, and independent Mike Mullen at Fitchburg State University on Thursday night. All three are seeking the open