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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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Supporters of an effort to repeal a new state law allowing illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses in Massachusetts gotten far more signatures than they need to get a referendum on the general election ballot in November, organizers said. Fair and Secure Massachusetts made the announcement Wednesday, August
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The publisher of a local newspaper in New Hampshire was arrested on charges of not identifying political advertisements in the paper, the state's attorney general said. Debra Paul, 62, the publisher of The Londonderry Times, was arrested Wednesday, August 24 on six misdemeanor counts, according to a written
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A $19.5 million federal grant to use hot wastewater from a biomass plant to melt snow by heating streets and sidewalks downtown is what the northern New Hampshire city of Berlin needs to turn things around, the city's mayor said. "Finally putting money into the heart
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Yearly payments in lieu of unused vacation days can't add to a state pension calculation, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. The decision prevents a retired police officer from collecting about $2,700 a year in additional pension – and also stops other public employees in Massachusetts who
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Connecticut drivers have saved about $70 million at the gas pump since the state suspended its 25-cents-per-gallon tax on gasoline on April 1, state officials said. Drivers has typically saved about $10 to $20 a week depending on how much they drive, said Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, a Democrat, according
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The heir of a home owner who didn't pay full property taxes for a year can't get the property back now that the town has foreclosed on it, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled Friday. Nor does the heir get anything from the value of the house
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A driver who admitted drinking two shots of whiskey and taking oxycodone and another prescription drug before blacking out and hitting a pedestrian and about a dozen cars should not have been held without bail under the state's dangerousness law, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Friday. That&
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An abortion expansion bill signed into law by Governor Charlie Baker in July was "a significant victory," but taking the fight to crisis pregnancy centers remains on the agenda, a pro-abortion Massachusetts state senator said. "No one in Massachusetts or coming to Massachusetts should ever need worry