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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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Cape Cod residents worried about the effects of apparatus bringing electricity from ocean turbines on shore are organizing a summit in Hyannis later this month. The group, Save Greater Dowses Beach, is calling the event "Close to the Wind."
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Governor Maura Healey's office has announced it is re-opening certain unspecified state contracts in hopes of increasing the diversity of vendors based on race and sexual orientation, among other things. "Our administration applies an equity lens to everything we do – and that includes the process to award
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A black female educator offered the position of interim principal at Amherst Regional Middle School doesn't want it anymore after being publicly criticized by the mother of a student who identifies as transgender for the way she used restorative justice to handle complaints of bullying. The mother, Kara
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A bill that would ban so-called revenge porn has gotten unanimous approval from the Massachusetts House of Representatives. State representatives voted 151-0 on Wednesday, January 10 for the bill, which would make it illegal to publish "sexually explicit images" of a person without that person's consent.
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In-state tuition rates and financial aid are available for illegal immigrants attending public colleges in Massachusetts, and it's something the state should be proud of, Governor Maura Healey said. She also praised providing driver's licenses for illegal immigrants, which became legal in Massachusetts on July 1,
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Claudine Gay should have stayed on as president of Harvard University instead of resigning last week, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey said Tuesday. Healey made the comment during an appearance on Boston Public Radio on WGBH on Tuesday, January 9.
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A school custodian who is also a standup comedian delivered a video announcement of no-school in Worcester because of snow. Jimmy Cash, who identified himself as "Worcester Public Schools' chief meteorologist" in the video, said snowblowers, shovels, "even a bunch of paper towels" weren'
Culture
Imagine if over this past Columbus Day weekend then-Harvard president Claudine Gay had issued a statement along these lines: The killing and kidnapping of hundreds of innocent civilians by Hamas in Israel on Saturday, October 7 horrifies me. I condemn it.