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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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The Boston Herald is moving from its office in South Boston to Braintree. The newspaper will move to 100 Grossman Drive in Braintree in late November or early December, according to the Boston Business Journal.
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Bishop Richard Malone is saying no to calls for him to resign as head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo because of the way he handled sexual conduct by priests there. "Let me be clear: My handling of recent claims from some of our parishioners concerning sexual misconduct
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The Republican nominee for six offices in Vermont has dropped out of five of them. H. Brooke Paige, who often shows up at events in a top hat, won the Republican primaries for U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, secretary of state, attorney general, state treasurer, and state
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Conservatives are so horrible that the existence of even one of them in the Massachusetts Legislature needs to be protested. More than 30 protesters, including several Democratic candidates, showed up outside a fund raiser for state Representative Jim Lyons (R-Andover) Monday night to protest Governor Charlie Baker's attendance.
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New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu is creating a state commission to study whether public schools in the Granite State should begin after Labor Day, as they used to years ago. The majority of schools are now starting in late August, but Sununu thinks that's wrong.
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All six Republicans running for Congress in New Hampshire's Second Congressional District are allying themselves with President Donald Trump and hitting the incumbent for voting against the Trump tax cut. The GOP candidates debated Monday night in Nashua, according to the Nashua Telegraph.
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Amherst College is renaming the Lord Jeffrey Inn because the name refers to Lord Jeffrey Amherst, the 18th century British general the college is indirectly named after. General Amherst (1717-1797) is most famous for winning the French and Indian War for England. That's why a western Massachusetts town
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Governor Paul LePage returned to Blaine House, as Maine's governor's mansion is called, on Monday after being hospitalized Saturday night. LePage is back in Augusta after going to the hospital in New Brunswick on Saturday night after experiencing what a staff member described as "discomfort.