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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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New England Power Generators Association president Dan Dolan issued a warning about the future of New England wholesale electricity-generation markets one day after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rejected his organization's petition to operate under less restrictive emissions standards, as allowed by the commonwealth's 2008 Global
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An Adams man who pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in May was sentenced to 20 years in prison earlier this week in U.S. District Court in Springfield. Alexander Ciccolo agreed to a plea deal, according to MassLive.com. Had the deal not been reached, Ciccolo faced life imprisonment.
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Opposing mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses and opposing cash bail are among the campaign planks of candidates who won Democratic primaries Tuesday in two counties in Massachusetts: Suffolk County (which includes Boston) and Berkshire County in western Massachusetts. Noting the power of a district attorney, columnist Clive McFarlane cheers
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Corporations still can't donate directly to political campaigns for state office in Massachusetts and unions can still give as much as $15,000, under a ruling from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Bu the U.S. Supreme Court may have the ultimate say.
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The slowness of the growth of racial diversity in the Massachusetts Legislature stems from demands by liberals in the late 1960s and and early 1970s to reduce the number of seats in the state House of Representatives by one-third, argues Peter Lucas in a column in the Lowell Sun. But
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The expected new headmaster of Deerfield Academy, a prestigious boarding school in western Massachusetts, most recently led a private school in Jordan established by King Abdullah II. The two schools have close ties. The king, 56, attended Deerfield Academy as a teen-ager, graduating in 1980. He established King's
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Former National Football League quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who started the practice of kneeling during the national anthem in order to protest supposed police brutality against blacks, has signed a new shoe deal with Nike even though he isn't playing and has dim prospects for catching on with a
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Tuesday, September 4 is the state primary in Massachusetts. Since it's the day after Labor Day, conventional wisdom says turnout will be low. A late surge in absentee ballot requests, however, makes some observers wonder if it might go higher than expected.