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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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Wind turbines in the ocean and state grants for infrastructure improvements in local communities are among the policies a Baker administration official plans to discuss next week during a climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland. "This is the kind of opportunity where solutions that have worked in Massachusetts can
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The two candidates for mayor of Amesbury disagree on whether the city's public high school should keep its current Indian mascot. James Kelcourse, a current Republican state representative and challenger, supports keeping it, while Kassandra Gove, the current mayor and chairman of the city's school committee,
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A man spotted and photographed a rare white crow on a power line in Aroostook County in Maine last week. The lack of black on the crow's body "is the result of a genetic mutation resulting in leucism" which "prevents melanin and other pigments from
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An 87-year-old abortion supporter in Maine who is an heir to the Proctor & Gamble fortune has resigned from a pro-abortion organization partly because of its unwillingness to acknowledge the pro-eugenics origins of the organization. Judy Kahrl, of Arrowsic, Maine, resigned from the board of Pathfinder International, which supports abortion
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A made-in-the-mainstream-media squall is causing sports broadcaster Sean McDonough some heartache because he had a little fun with a Pakistani surname during a Boston Red Sox broadcast. Yet this one doesn't pass the old David Letterman test: Is this anything?
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating certain expenditures from about $1.15 million in coronavirus stimulus spending in the southern Connecticut city of West Haven, according to the city's mayor. Payments made to a company run by a Democratic state representative who also works as an aide
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Epidemiologists who signed a declaration in western Massachusetts last year calling for reopening the economy in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic in an effort to achieve herd immunity say they have been harassed for offering solid scientific advice. The Berkshire Eagle interviewed several experts who affirmed the Great Barrington
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Members of the 13-person body that oversees Harvard University donated to Democrats over Republicans during the 2020 election cycle by a ratio of 136 to 1, according to an analysis performed by a student newspaper. The entity is known as the Harvard Corporation. Its members in aggregate donated more than