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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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Maura Healey referred to her mother's church-going habits while answering a question about abortion Wednesday night. Healey, the Democratic nominee for governor of Massachusetts, got a question during a debate with GOP nominee Geoff Diehl on whether she would support efforts to use public money to pay for
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Maura Healey refused to ally herself with the Green New Deal during a debate Wednesday night. Healey, the Democratic nominee for governor of Massachusetts and the state's current attorney general, touted alternative sources of energy such as wind and solar power during the debate on NBC Boston on
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A Brookline rector in a same-sex civil marriage is set to become the Episcopal Church's new bishop of Connecticut this weekend. Reverend Jeffrey Mello, who has served as rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Brookline, Massachusetts for the past 11 years, told The Hartford Courant
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The state's public medical school is asking the Worcester City Council to change the name of three public streets near the campus because they contain the word "Plantation." The word 'Plantation' connotes oppression in our country and serves as a reminder of the painful
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Vermont state legislators have given up on a policy that recommended proof of vaccination or screening for coronavirus before entering the Vermont State House because no one has been following it. The old policy, approved in December 2021, "strongly recommended" members of the public to "provide proof
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Columbus Day supporters in Westford are planning a community celebration of the holiday on Monday, in anticipation of a town vote on whether it should continue. Italian music, talks on the history and importance of the holiday, and a display of a replica of the flag that flew on Christopher
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About 75 students at Harvard Law School staged a walk-out of a pro-life panel discussion a few minutes after it started. "I wondered if I had unintentionally said something offensive!" a panelist, Stephen E. Sachs, a professor at the school, said in a written statement to The Harvard
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A charter school model for black kids in Harlem interests some Cambridge city officials as a means of lessening achievement gaps and promoting success. E. Denise Simmons, a Cambridge city councilor and former mayor of the city, praised the Harlem Children's Zone, a nonprofit organization that includes three