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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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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris plans to speak before the national convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Boston later this summer. The convention is scheduled to run from Wednesday, July 26 through Tuesday, August 1. The announcement from the NAACP earlier today doesn&
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A recently sold campground in the western Massachusetts town of Hancock comes with its own bomb shelter and three classic cars inside it. The previous owner of off-the-grid Privacy Campground, André Rambaud, 91, built the 60-foot-by-25-foot bomb shelter during the 1970s when he was the town's civil defense
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A non-profit organization began offering abortion pills Monday, July 3 at seven facilities in Eastern Massachusetts with $700,000 in new state funding. Health Imperatives has facilities in Hyannis, Brockton, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Plymouth, Wareham, and New Bedford, according to its web site.
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The new Massachusetts surtax on incomes over $1 million played a role in power forward Grant Williams's decision to turn down an offer from the Boston Celtics, leading the team to trade him. Williams, 24, was an important part of the Celtics' plans for next season. But
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The splitting couple had no disagreements over assets or spousal support, except one: Who gets the dog? The Vermont Supreme Court has gone with the wife.
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The state auditor "may need to go to court" to try to get the Massachusetts Legislature to submit to an audit, she said. Democratic leaders on Beacon Hill have rejected state auditor Diana DiZoglio's bid to audit the state House of Representatives and state Senate, claiming
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Three counselors at a public middle school in Amherst have been put on administrative leave fo not affirming gender transitioning and for bringing prayer into the school, school officials said. The counselors are also accused of not supporting students who reported being bullied and of addressing students who identify as
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Left-wingers demanding extreme positions and ostracizing those who don't agree are driving ordinary people to align with social conservatives, a liberal columnist for The Boston Globe says. Kat Rosenfield, a novelist, uses a conflict over including the book Gender Queer in school libraries as an example.