Menu
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.
Around New England
The federal government should allow more foreigners into the United States so that industries that need high-skilled workers can get them, a pharmaceutical company executive said. Yvonne Greenstreet, president and chief operating officer of Alnylan Pharmaceuticals, headquartered in Cambridge, said biotechnology needs people from other countries – like her, who came
News
Immigration policies in the United States are failing immigrants in the country illegally and their supporters, Harvard University's president said. Lawrence Bacow, president of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said former President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, which has prevented illegal immigrants who
News
The suffering of illegal immigrants during the coronavirus emergency means they should get a path to citizenship in the United States, U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley said. "We rely on the same immigrants who our country has historically refused to prioritize. It's not just that their work
Around New England
About 35 percent of the faculty of Harvard University is foreign-born, the school's president said. Lawrence Bacow, president of Harvard University, which is in Cambridge, Massachusetts, made the remark while arguing in favor of amnesty for illegal immigrants during an online forum Friday.
Around New England
Bristol County is getting far fewer coronavirus vaccine doses than other counties in Massachusetts relative to its confirmed cases of the virus, the mayor of Fall River said. Mayor Paul Coogan told the Fall River Herald News that Berkshire County in western Massachusetts is getting about six times as many
News
A high school football coach fired after raising objections to pro-Black Lives Matter material in his daughter's seventh grade history class has sued school officials in Dedham, claiming they violated his First Amendment right to free speech. Dave Flynn, who had served as head football coach at Dedham
Around New England
The Massachusetts House of Representatives voted in favor of a bill that sought to increase the state's gasoline tax and tax ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. The vote was 113 Yea, 40 Nay, 4 Not Voting. All Yea votes came from
Around New England
State leaders aren't considering new state taxes at the moment, eyeing instead potential federal largess in the form of a $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill being considered by Congress, the new speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives said. Ron Mariano (D-Quincy), who became House speaker on