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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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Longtime donor and fund-raiser Jack Connors told a newspaper columnist recently that the Catholic Church should allow women to become priests and should bless same-sex marriages. Connors, 81, a wealthy philanthropist, was a lay adviser to Cardinal Bernard Law when he was archbishop of Boston and has also been close
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As demonstrators stood near the Mashpee Rotary amid occasional rain, some passing drivers tooted their horns in apparent support. About a half-dozen people stood with signs and a Betsy Ross American flag protesting the presence of illegal immigrants in Massachusetts on Saturday morning.
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Inmates in state prisons and county jails in Massachusetts are set to be able to make free telephone calls starting Friday, December 1. Governor Maura Healey has signed into law a bill requiring corrections officials to provide inmates "with voice communication services, including phone calls, free of charge to
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A ballot question asking voters to legalize rent control won't be going to the general election ballot in Massachusetts in November 2024. Supporters have given up their effort to get signatures of registered voters for the proposed referendum. Supporters collected 10,175 signatures of the 74,574 needed
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The number of families seeking emergency shelter from the state topped the state's limit of 7,500 on Thursday, which state officials say means some families will go on a waiting list instead of getting an immediate place to stay. Migrants from other countries have caused a surge
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A high-ranking official at Harvard University said he has "regrets about the first statement" Harvard administrators made about Hamas's attack on Israel last month. "Our goal is to ensure that our community is safe, secure, and feels well supported — and that first statement did not
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Harvard College athletes who identify as transgender say they aren't getting as much support from the school's athletics department as they should. Several athletes told The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper, that varsity teams at the school host their own "pride games," which the
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State Representative Peter Durant will soon be state Senator Peter Durant, now that he has won a special election in central Massachusetts. Durant (R-Worcester) will become the fourth Republican in the Massachusetts Senate, against 36 Democrats, for a ratio of one-to-nine.