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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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Democratic nominee for governor Maura Healey expressed support for a ballot question seeking to increase the state tax rate on incomes of more than $1 million a year on Thursday. The ballot measure, Question 1, is formally called the Fair Share Amendment, and is also known as the Millionaires'
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About 30 environmental protesters held a "die-in" near a power plant under construction in Peabody earlier this week, claiming that the plant will cause asthma, heat stroke, hurricanes, explosions, and lung diseases leading to death. Some protesters lay on the sidewalk of the Danversport Bridge in Danvers on
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A proposal to lengthen the school day by a half-hour isn't going over well with some Billerica parents. A new teachers union contract with the Billerica public schools calls for lengthening the work day from six and a half hours to seven hours. That would also allow the
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Prison inmates take the motors out of electric typewriters and electric pencil sharpeners to help make tattoos, an inmate told a Massachusetts court. John J. Sullivan made the statement while contesting his firing as a law clerk in the prison library at Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Shirley, where he is serving
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A Somerville city councilor is calling for city officials to study the feasibility of requiring criminal background checks and sex offender checks for people who staff pro-life crisis pregnancy centers, if any ever come to Somerville. Kristen Strezo, a member of the city council, brought up the idea during a
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A seal that got itself trapped in a small pond in Beverly flopped its way to the city's police station in the middle of the night, triggering an overland ride to Connecticut and eventual freedom. The seal – whom locals took to calling "Shoebert," because it lived
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A tweet suggesting possible support for teaching sex education in kindergarten has a Leominster School Committee member wondering whether his school district should continue to support the Massachusetts Association of School Committees. "The case for starting sex ed in kindergarten" is the headline of an NPR story highlighted
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A double homicide in Middleborough in December 2020 has clouded the payout of a life insurance policy, partly because it's not clear whether the husband or wife died first. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is asking a federal judge to decide who gets the money.