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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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Supporters of the failed federal Equal Rights Amendment are calling on Congress to remove the deadline it set for the states to approve it. U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Hyde Park) held a press conference with other supporters designed to try to resuscitate the proposed amendment on Wednesday, December 13,
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The average price of gasoline price in Massachusetts have dropped to $3.31 a gallon, down 5 cents a gallon from last week. It's also 15 cents a gallon lower than last week and 23 cents a gallon lower than a year ago, on December 12, 2022, according
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A 43-year-old abortion supporter who could serve until 2050 is Governor Maura Healey's first nominee to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Elizabeth Dewar, the state solicitor in the Massachusetts Attorney General's office, is the first nominee to the state's highest court not to have
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Flags are flying at half-staff in Massachusetts in honor of Paul Tracey, a long-time Waltham police officer killed Wednesday while on duty as a roadside work site. A speeding Ford pickup truck driven by a New Hampshire man with a history of mental illness and attacks on police struck and
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A special election has been scheduled to fill the central Massachusetts state representative seat Peter Durant (R-Spencer) vacated after he won a special election in November to become a state senator. The party primaries are scheduled for February 6, 2024 and the special election is scheduled for March 5, 2024,
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The state government will block state funding for public schools, roads, and other items for towns and cities that don't create at least one zoning district that allows multi-family housing as a matter of right, Governor Maura Healey said Thursday. Healey, a Democrat, called housing affordability "the
Around New England
A proposal to fly the flag of the State of Israel in the town of Winthrop drew an online commenter who "shouted an antisemitic slur, displayed a swastika on their screen, and appeared to give a nazi salute during a discussion regarding the town's flag flying policy,
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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey joined five other Democratic governors in calling for the federal government to require that all forms of contraception be provided free of charge or close to that through all private health insurance plans subject to Obamacare, Medicaid, and Medicare. "Contraception is essential preventive healthcare,"