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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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Somerville city officials are interested in issuing lower parking violation fines to poor people and people who don't drive large vehicles. The proposals, which are still in the planning stage, came up earlier this week during a city government board meeting.
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Brookline town officials are disappointed that they did not hire any Asian-Americans during the first quarter of 2021. The town hired 12 new employees between January 1 and March 31, tracking them by race. One quarter are black, one quarter are Latino, half are white – but none are Asian.
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A Massachusetts state legislator wants to make unequal outcomes by race and other categories a violation of the state constitution that would prompt action by the state government. The proposed constitutional amendment would add sexual orientation to the currently protected classes of sex, race, color, creed, and national origin and
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A conservative government watchdog group is calling on Governor Charlie Baker to end his mandate telling people in Massachusetts to wear masks outdoors. Coronavirus vaccines are available to everyone 16 and older in Massachusetts as of Monday, April 19. Older people and people with certain illnesses have been eligible to
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Then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted on all charges in the death of George Floyd last year. Chauvin was convicted of second degree murder, third degree murder, and manslaughter by a jury. The judge read the verdict shortly before 4:10 p.m. Central Daylight Time on Tuesday,
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An organization that runs Boston's annual homosexuality-affirming parade has announced the appointment of seven members to a new committee designed to rid the organization of racism. "Boston Pride is dismantling the systemic oppression and individual, interpersonal, institutional, and structural racism within its own organization," Boston Pride
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Puerto Ricans should be able to decide whether to join the union as a state, said U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Dorchester). Article IV, Section 3 of the United States Constitution states: "New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union …"
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A little less than 3 percent of faculty members at Harvard University identify as conservative, according to a survey performed by the student newspaper. "There hasn't been a conservative appointed as a Harvard faculty for the last 10 years, as far as I know," Harvey Mansfield,