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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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Governor Chris Sununu, a Republican, says he'll sign a bill approved by the New Hampshire Legislature outlawing discrimination on the basis of gender identity. The transgender rights bill will also enable biological males to use women's bathrooms and locker rooms if they identify as females.
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The city council of the western Massachusetts city of Northampton is considering a resolution to ask the state Legislature to lower the state's voting age to 16 for local elections. The recent actions of some teen-agers agitating for more gun control after the mass shooting at a Florida
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The Massachusetts Senate's ethics investigation of former Senate president Stan Rosenberg cost about $230,000, an legislative aide said. A law firm hired by the Senate Committee on Ethics on December 19 released a report Wednesday detailing accusations against Bryon Hefner, the now-estranged civil-law husband of Rosenberg, including
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A veteran police officer in the western Massachusetts town of Hadley is apologizing for posting a comment on his police department's Facebook page suggesting that two black customers getting arrested at a Starbucks after refusing to leave isn't as important as two sheriff's deputies
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The traffic nightmare on the approaches to the Sagamore Bridge is over — at least for a while — now that all four lanes are open again. For the past month the Sagamore, one of two automobile bridges that span the Cape Cod Canal, has been reduced to one lane in each
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The organization currently known as Boy Scouts of America plans to drop the word "Boy" from its name, as it prepares to accept girls starting this summer. The new name will be "Scouts BSA," according to Boy Scouts of America officials.
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Harvard University will bargain with a newly formed union representing graduate students, the school's president said. Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard, opposed the creation of a union before a majority of graduate students voted to unionize earlier this month. But now that the union is a done
Around New England
On May 3, 2003, after a stormy night, someone looked up at the Old Man of the Mountain in Franconia Notch in northern New Hampshire and saw he wasn't there. The quintessential image of the Granite State — a rugged face and chin protruding from a hardscrabble landscape atop