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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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An approximately 50-year-old Long Island resident is accusing the Roman Catholic bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire of "fondling and groping" the person's genitals on "numerous occasions" when the accuser was about 13, according to a lawsuit. On one occasion, according to the complaint, an
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Maura Healey appears to be playing a game of chicken with Charlie Baker over whether either is running for governor of Massachusetts in 2022. Healey, the state Attorney General and a hard-left Democrat, ducked questions Thursday about whether she plans to run for governor in 2022.
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An assistant clerk-magistrate must be suspended without pay because of a felony indictment but a state judge indicted for a felony can keep her pay even while on suspension, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. The difference, says the court, is a state statute that exempts judges, clerk-magistrates, and
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Calling Claire Cronin "an abortion extremist," the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts says her nomination to become the next U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Ireland demonstrates the failure of U.S. Catholic bishops to hold Catholic politicians who support abortion accountable to their faith. Cronin, a
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Non-citizens should be able to vote in local elections in Massachusetts because they are already participating in civic life and paying taxes, advocates of a bill before the state legislature say. One of the sponsors, state Representative Mike Connolly (D-Cambridge), linked allowing non-citizens to vote to the state legislature'
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Young people are affected by local issues and are already active in various left-of-center causes, so they should be allowed to vote in local elections, advocates of a bill to lower the voting age in Massachusetts said. "We see young people leading the charge around racial justice, around climate
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A witness speaking before a Massachusetts legislative committee sent a message of support for Sweden in the European Championship soccer tournament Wednesday afternoon. Sweden was holding onto a 2-1 lead against Poland in the third and final game of group stage play when Kristian Lundberg, a researcher at a pro-youth-engagement
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Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch said he tried to get at least one state legislator in Quincy to vote against the ROE Act abortion expansion bill in December 2020, but couldn't. Koch, 58, an independent who left the Democratic Party over abortion in 2017, spoke Thursday night at a