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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 police chiefs can no longer deny a firearms license because an applicant lacks what a chief considers a good reason to have it, state officials say. While gun owners still need a license, less is left up to the discretion of license-issuing authorities in the wake of a recent
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Governor Charlie Baker renewed efforts this week to get the leaders of the state legislature to incorporate tax cuts into the final state budget for Massachusetts for the coming fiscal year. Baker called a press conference Monday primarily to talk about tax cuts for senior citizens.
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Opponents of allowing illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses in Massachusetts have until August 24 to collect 40,000 signatures of registered voters to put a referendum on the November 2022 state ballot. The Massachusetts Attorney General's office approved the wording of the proposed ballot question
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Abortion-friendly policies in Massachusetts may help state officials draw businesses from other states, Governor Charlie Baker said. As many as 26 states either have or are expected to ban or significantly limit abortion in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's
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Pro-abortion vandalism hit the Vermont State House in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade and sending abortion law back to the states. "If abortions aren't safe you're not either," someone spraypainted in black on the
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New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu has vetoed a bill passed by the Republican-majority state legislature that would allow pharmacists to dispense Ivermectin through a standing order from a doctor without a specific prescription. The bill (New Hampshire House Bill 1022) would also establish a commission to study the effectiveness of
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The U.S. Supreme Court's decision flipping Roe v. Wade and returning abortion law to the states is a victory for former President Donald Trump. Trump got done what decades of Republican presidents before him failed to do: Getting the worst decision in the history of the nation&
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The Roman Catholic bishop of Worcester has ordered a Jesuit-run middle school in the city to stop calling itself Catholic because school officials are flying a rainbow flag and a Black Lives Matter flag. Bishop Robert McManus said Nativity School, which serves mostly black and Latino boys in grades 5