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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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On Wednesday, about 50 migrants from Venezuela arrived at Martha's Vineyard Airport from Texas (via a brief stop in Florida), courtesy of two charter airplanes hired by the administration of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. By midday Friday, they were gone, whisked away to a military base on Cape
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A coalition of crisis pregnancy centers in Massachusetts is calling on the state's attorney general to take action to protect them from property attacks and to withdraw a consumer advisory she issued against them earlier this summer. "As the chief law enforcement officer of the Commonwealth, she&
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When then-Princess Elizabeth got married in November 1947, Britain's royal family wanted 700 pounds of lobster for the reception. Royal officials tried to get the lobsters from Canada, which is within the British Commonwealth. But Canadians didn't have enough, and a Maine man did.
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Eleven Massachusetts social workers fielding calls about the state's health insurance program for poor people routinely failed to greet callers or put their telephones on mute so that callers wouldn't hear them and would hang up, according to the state. But MassHealth's decision to
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Amherst College, Smith College, and Mount Holyoke College are all requiring students to wear masks indoors until at least mid-September. Amherst College has an exception: "mask will not be required inside residence halls or when alone in one's private office with the door closed."
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The political action committee associated with Massachusetts Citizens for Life has endorsed Geoff Diehl for governor. Diehl, a former state representative from Whitman, is running for the Republican nomination against Wrentham businessman Chris Doughty.
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Opponents of abortion and universal mail-in ballots are also behind an effort to repeal a new Massachusetts state law that would allow illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses, two supporters of the driver's-licenses law said. "Look at who is behind this attempt to roll back
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A Jesuit middle school in Worcester that lost its ability to call itself Catholic because it flies a rainbow flag and a Black Lives Matter flag used to have Mass on campus once a month, according to a news story in The Boston Globe. The story paraphrases the president of