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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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One of the Democrats running to replace U.S. Representative Carol Shea-Porter in New Hampshire says the U.S. Supreme Court should be increased from nine justices now to 15 — one for each federal circuit court of appeals plus the military appeals court. Terence O'Rourke, 39, city attorney
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Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart says his decision to include an immigrant segment and have all guest performers be women during the annual Fourth of July concert at the Hatch Shell on the Charles River Esplanade is not political. "I'm excited that we're celebrating that
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Frank and Helen Beauregard, ages 89 and 87, have signs of dementia, but they remember each other. The couple renewed their wedding vows at an adult day care center in Chelmsford. The ceremony included a new hairdo for Helen, a white blanket that resembled a wedding gown, and a veil.
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren called for replacing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency during a rally against President Donald Trump's immigration policy in Boston. "We need to rebuild our immigration system from top to bottom, starting by replacing ICE with something that reflects our
Commentary
President Donald Trump's occasional claim that the press is "the enemy of the American people" is over the top. It also had nothing to do with the shootings at the Capital Gazette newspaper office in Annapolis, Maryland Thursday.
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Democrats and liberal commentators like The Boston Globe's Scot Lehigh are claiming U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) is acting hypocritically in planning to hold confirmation hearings this fall for a new Trump U.S. Supreme Court nominee before the 2018 midterm election even though he
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New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu wants the state Legislature to pass a new law that would make it hard for other states to collect sales tax from businesses in the Granite State that sell products online. On June 21, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can collect sales
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Driver's licenses and in-state tuition for illegal aliens and an end to cooperation with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement are high on the agenda for Steve Marchand, one of two candidates for the Democratic nomination for governor of New Hampshire. Marchand, a former mayor of Portsmouth, grew up