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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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After getting trashed several faculty members and some other commentators, the three finalists for chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Boston have withdrawn. The faculty members released a statement several days ago saying that none of the candidates is qualified to lead the school.
Around New England
The Malaysian company backing the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe's bid to build a $1 billion casino in Taunton is dialing back the amount it will lend the tribe, leading to a 50 percent budget cut for the coming fiscal year. The Cape Cod tribe is expecting a loan of
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Of the approximately 20 jobs Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has had, sportswriting may have been his favorite, he told a graduating class on Cape Cod this week. Baker as a young man worked for several years for the Dedham Daily Transcript, a now-defunct newspaper in a town next to his
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A 31-year-old New Hampshire man got the attention of a Massachusetts state trooper in the early hours after midnight because he was going the speed limit on Route I-495 in Westford. "The vehicle's speed and lane of travel indicated to me that the driver was using extreme
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A 22-year-old man sitting in the back seat of a cruiser with his hands handcuffed behind his back in Dexter, Maine managed to maneuver his hands to the front of his body, squirm through an 11-inch-by-11-inch window in the partition, get into the driver's seat and take off,
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The state of Maine doesn't provide public money for abortions, but abortion providers want the Maine Supreme Judicial Court to rule that the state must. The plaintiffs are the three abortion clinics in Maine. The executive director of one of them issued a press release arguing that it&
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The chaplain of the Knights of Columbus council at St. Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire pressured the student leader to resign after he showed up at the organization's formal dance with his boyfriend. As grand knight of the council, the student was expected to uphold Catholic teachings,
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Vermont Governor Phil Scott is getting an earful from gun-rights advocates wherever he goes, to the point where he carries copies of a fact sheet about gun-control bills he recently signed and an affidavit describing a near-miss school shooting in the town of Fair Haven. Scott, a Republican, told gun-rights