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.
News
Outraged that convicted felons can't vote in some states, U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley is comparing the current situation with government-enforced segregation of blacks in the South between the 1870s and the 1960s. "This is the new Jim Crow," Pressley tweeted Saturday, October 17.
Around New England
If President Donald Trump wins re-election it will mean the end of Mother Earth, Massachusetts U.S. Senator Ed Markey said. Markey tweeted words to that effect Friday night.
News
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden got no questions during an ABC townhall Thursday night about an explosive New York Post news story suggesting that as vice president he met with a Ukrainian businessman who had gotten Biden's son a lucrative appointment to a Ukrainian gas company's
News
Massachusetts U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley has come out in favor of giving $1,200 coronavirus stimulus checks to inmates in prisons. A federal judge in northern California appointed by President Bill Clinton recently ruled that the Trump administration must stop withholding coronavirus checks from prisoners because the federal Coronavirus
Around New England
U.S. Senator Ed Markey has endorsed Jake Auchincloss, 36 days after the Newton city councilor won the Democratic primary for the Fourth Congressional District. Auchincloss was seen as the least radical of the top tier of candidates in the September 1 Democratic primary, having supported the nominally Republican governor
Around New England
The Harvard Crimson has denounced the Harvard Republican Club for endorsing the incumbent Republican president of the United States. The GOP student group endorsed President Donald Trump in late September, four years after previous members of the club declined to endorse then-candidate Trump in the spring of 2016.
Around New England
The Massachusetts Republican State Committee has voted unanimously to oppose a ballot question seeking to implement ranked-choice voting statewide, a party spokesman said. The resolution calls ranked-choice voting "unnecessarily confusing" and prone to resulting in spoiled ballots. The measure also "raises the potential for rigging and gaming
Around New England
Brockton's police cleared the air passageway of a 3-month-old baby girl who was choking and non-responsive. Emanuel Gomes, the city's chief of police, was tending to business on the south side of the city in a marked cruiser Thursday morning when he heard a radio call