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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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Workers at a marijuana dispensary in Somerset are planning to form a union, saying they "have dedicated countless hours of our time and resources to expand and develop our knowledge" of the product in order to help customers. Twelve of the 17 workers at Solar Therapeutics in Somerset
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The state's education commissioner is seeking authorization to require all students and staff at public schools in Massachusetts to wear masks indoors at least through October 1. The announcement on Friday, August 20 is an about-face for the administration of Governor Charlie Baker, who has repeatedly in recent
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An abortion-supporting Rhode Island state senator has resigned to take a job in the Biden administration. Gayle Goldin, a Democrat, represented the east side of Providence until she resigned during the morning of Tuesday, August 17, effective immediately.
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Lowell school officials plan to require all students and teachers to wear masks indoors – but over the sharp objection of a school committee member who described the new policy as succumbing to "fear and hysteria." Mike Dillon Jr., a firefighter and former teacher who was first elected to
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Maine's Trump-supporting Second Congressional District in the central and northern parts of the state may become marginally more Democratic next year, because of a shift in population that will require a redrawing of district lines. About 23,000 people who currently live in what The Bangor Daily News
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Former American cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been charged with indecent assault on a child over 14 for an incident that police say occurred at Wellesley College in 1974. Wellesley police have charged McCarrick with the crime, said David Traub, spokesman for the Norfolk County District Attorney's office, in
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A state board designed to help victims and witnesses of crimes needs a member chosen partly on the basis of race, supporters of a bill before the Massachusetts Legislature say. The measure calls for adding a member from what it calls an "underserved community," which refers to "
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A lesbian who made an informal agreement with another woman to have a baby for the lesbian and her partner can keep the baby even though the biological parents object to the way she's raising him, the Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled. The state's second highest