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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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Former President Bill Clinton spoke before about 800 people at Martha's Vineyard High School in Oak Bluffs about his new co-written political novel and about politics today. "Asked about many of the novel's main characters, including the vice president, chief of staff and FBI director
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Massachusetts U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Cambridge) is one of several Democratic luminaries who called to congratulate Christine Hallquist, a biological male who identifies as a woman who won the Democratic primary for governor in Vermont, according to Hellquist's campaign. Hallquist, who won the August 14 primary, has
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A Maine professor disgusted with a left-wing public-employee union is suing to try to force the state university system to stop recognizing the union as representing him and to stop deductions from his paycheck from going to the union. Jonathan Reisman, a tenured associate professor of economics and public policy
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Father Bill Costello, a retired priest of the Diocese of Fall River missing and reported dead in Texas, is still officially missing, a police spokesman said. Authorities found the body of a man in a county somewhat near Costello's home in South Padre Island, Texas, but previous news
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Former Massachusetts State Police Lieutenant David Wilson, 57, was indicted on one count of embezzlement from an agency receiving federal funds. Wilson is among six state troopers who have been charged with receiving overtime pay for phantom shifts they didn't work.
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Dan Koh, former chief of staff to Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, has a lead in the crowded Democratic primary to succeed retiring U.S. Representative Nikki Tsongas (D-Lowell). Koh, 33, drew 19 percent support in the UMass Lowell-Boston Globe poll, over state Senator Barbara L'Italien (D-Andover) and former
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A Republican challenger for governor has a slight lead in deeply Democratic Oregon, and it's being attributed to voter fatigue with resistance to President Donald Trump and horror over the antics of Antifa outside a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in the state's largest city.
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Pro-gun-control activists started a 50-mile march from Worcester to Springfield to put heat on gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson, which is headquartered in the western Massachusetts city. The march, called "50 Miles More," is meant to call to mind the civil rights march in Alabama from Selma to