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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.
Around New England
In August 2014 the city of Fall River started requiring residents to put their trash in purple bags that they had to buy in order to get the city to pick up their trash. The contractor who pitched the idea to city officials said it would bring in significant revenue
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Could Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker's high approval ratings be based in part on his refusal to take a stand on important ballot questions? The Boston Business Journal is calling out Baker for not telling voters what he believes about an income surtax on millionaires, an increase in the
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Police searching a home in Marstons Mills where Yarmouth Police Officer Sean Gannon was shot in the head and killed last month found hidden disassembled parts to a semiautomatic handgun, two live rounds of ammunition in a toilet, shell casings in the attic, and $25,000 in cash hidden in
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A Cornell University senior upset about a professor's questioning of her cutoff shorts during a senior thesis presentation decided to protest by stripping down to her underwear. The female professor of performing and media arts, who other students said is known for her "past and continued advocacy
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A 12-year-old girl riding her bike on the sidewalk while talking on a cell phone was injured when she lost control of the bike, swerved into the street, and struck the back of a dump truck, getting run over by the landscaping trailer the truck was towing. The girl was
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Thursday is a school day in Brockton, but school officials are sending at least two buses to Beacon Hill to stump for a bill that would change the state's local aid funding formula for schools. Brockton, a poor city 25 miles south of Boston, is getting shafted when
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Two bats were discovered in an elementary school in Merrimack, New Hampshire where the public school district recently spent $600,000 trying to get rid of them. The $600,000 cleanup was supposed to solve the bat problem, but school officials theorize one of the new bats got into the
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All but five South Shore cities and towns have banned recreational marijuana stores. Only Quincy, Rockland, Halifax, Plymouth, and Marshfield are now possible sites of pot shops, according to The Patriot Ledger.