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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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Massachusetts taxpayers are in line for tax relief whether state legislators give it to them or not, thanks to a little-known provision in state law that voters approved in 1986. Estimates on how much vary. But it could be about 7 percent of what taxpayers paid to the state in
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Girls are being treated unfairly and some are experiencing mental health problems because the public schools in Plymouth require midriffs, shoulders, and the middle of thighs to be covered, students said. Two groups of students – one a civics class – from grades-6-through-8 Plymouth Community Intermediate Schools sent the Plymouth School Committee
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A woman who says her brother died of a fentanyl overdose after taking it without a prescription for back pain blames President Joe Biden for the flow of illegal drugs across the United States-Mexico border. Kimberly Morro, of Acushnet, showed up for an appearance by the president Wednesday, July 20
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President Joe Biden got the personal pronoun of a Massachusetts member of Congress wrong shortly after mangling his name during an appearance Wednesday. With the Braga Bridge and the city of Fall River in the background, Biden began his remarks at the site of a former power plant at Brayton
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The Boston Pops plan to end an annual concert at Tanglewood with the Ukraine national anthem before playing Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Some orchestras are foregoing the 1880 classic, which commemorates Russia's defeat of the French in 1812, because of the current Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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A 55-year-old man charged with stealing a bracelet in 1987 got the case against him dismissed earlier this month when a prosecutor said she didn't have enough evidence to proceed. About 35 years ago the man, at the time a resident of Methuen, Massachusetts, was charged by police
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An abortion expansion bill Massachusetts state legislators expect to pass "is just an acknowledgement of the tide that is turning, nationally," one of its supporters said. State Senator Joanne Comerford (D-Northampton) made the comment to the Daily Hampshire Gazette.
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Clearway Clinic in Worcester sustained about $8,000 in damage during a late-night attack by abortion supporters last week, the leader of the clinic said. The vandals broke glass in the front doors and window and also spray painted "Jane's Revenge" in black on the walkway