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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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Rush-hour right-lane traffic on Interstate I-190 southbound in Worcester ended temporarily Tuesday morning when a large green highway sign fell down on the highway. State highway officials got reports of the sign being down around 7 a.m. Tuesday, August 9, a Massachusetts Department of Transportation spokesman told the Worcester
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The state's new abortion expansion bill protects abortionists and "life-saving abortion care," an advocate for abortion said Thursday. Rebecca Hart Holder, executive director of Reproductive Equity Now, formerly known as NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts, made the comment during the public portion of a roundtable discussion that included
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Vice President Kamala Harris praised Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker for his support for abortion during an event Thursday. Baker, a Republican, was the only member of the GOP at a pro-abortion roundtable discussion between Harris and several Massachusetts elected officials.
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A member of the Democratic leadership of the Massachusetts House of Representatives linked the state's role in starting the American Revolution during the 1770s with the state legislature's current support for legal and publicly funded abortion. State Representative Kate Hogan (D-Stow), the speaker pro tempore, touted
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Volunteers opened up an old tomb in the western Massachusetts town of Savoy this week and found … nothing. The piled-stones structure ill that dates from before 1820 was probably once used to store bodies during the winter until the ground thawed and a proper grave could be dug, town officials
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Vice President Kamala Harris and a Cabinet secretary plan to discuss abortion with Massachusetts state legislators and other public officials later this week, the White House announced. Harris is supposed to hold a roundtable with certain state legislators in Boston on Thursday, August 4. Xavier Becerra, the secretary of the
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Students at Dartmouth High School will have to drop their cell phones in a designated area before each class or else face after-school punishment this coming school year. Principal Ryan Shea said cell phones are distracting and also lead to cheating.
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Kansas voters rejected by a wide margin a constitutional amendment that would have allowed the state legislature to restrict or ban abortion on Tuesday. The vote was 59 to 41 percent against the amendment, according to the Kansas Secretary of State.