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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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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.
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Massachusetts House Speaker Ron Mariano linked the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test and educational standards on Wednesday. Mariano (D-Quincy), a former teacher, told reporters outside his office at the State House on Wednesday, January 3 that has "never been a big MCAS reformer," according to State House News
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Race-based opposition was a factor in the forced resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay earlier this week, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said Wednesday. Wu seemed to acknowledge that Gay made mistakes in the way she handled the university's response to Hamas's invasion of Israel in October
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Maine Republicans are calling for the impeachment of Maine's secretary of state, who recently ruled that Donald Trump should not appear on the state's presidential election ballot. Shenna Bellows, the Maine secretary of state, is "a biased Democrat Party hack, unworthy of the high office
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'Tis the day before Christmas, and believing Christians are thinking about Jesus. They also should be thinking about Mary the mother of Jesus, and what they can learn from her.
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A New Hampshire newspaper publisher who ran political ads the state attorney general's office claimed were illegal has been fined $620 by a judge. Deb Paul, publisher of the Londonderry Times and the former Nutfield News, was convicted December 7 on misdemeanor charges of failing to identify political
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The chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party joined seven GOP state representatives and a former state party chairman in delivering a copy of a filing to make sure Nikki Haley makes the March 2024 presidential primary ballot in Massachusetts. Amy Carnevale, state party chairman, and the other Republicans delivered the