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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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U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III's wife worked for a pro-abortion advocacy group in Washington D.C. during her husband's first years in Congress. The National Partnership for Women & Families, where Lauren Birchfield Kennedy served as director of health policy, lists as among its
News
Transparency is a core issue for left-wing Democrats in Massachusetts. "It's about transparency," the organization Progressive Massachusetts says on its web site to explain why it provides a legislative scorecard. The web site also has a list of 10 excuses state legislators give for not being
Politics
Lateness in responding to certain acute problems and secrecy concerning key data mar the Massachusetts state government's response to coronavirus, a Democratic state senator said. State Senator Patricia Jehlen (D-Somerville) made the comments during an online forum Thursday, August 13 hosted by Somerville Democrats.
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A couple clearing the area around the dead half of a double tree in their back yard last month came upon a rock that seemed to be growing in the tree. Turns out, it's a gravestone for two little girls who died of diphtheria in 1736 and were
Culture
Pity Alex Morse. In his public statements since it became known that as mayor of Holyoke and a University of Massachusetts Amherst lecturer he has initiated sexual hookups with male college students, you can sense bewilderment. At some level, the left-Democratic candidate for Congress seems to be thinking, don'
Commentary
"Kamala knows how to govern. She knows how to make the hard calls. She's ready to do this job on Day One." — Joe Biden, Wednesday, August 12, 2020, on his new vice presidential running mate
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Teachers union officials who don't want to go back to school in September put coffins and empty shoes on the steps of Haverhill City Hall on Wednesday symbolizing the students and teachers who could die if public schools re-open. Mindful of the coronavirus emergency, city officials are presenting
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Former Republican Cabinet secretary William Bennett predicts that the sporadic cancellations of the upcoming college football season because of coronavirus will help President Donald Trump's campaign for re-election. Bennett implied that the frustration of men who follow college football teams in the Midwest may move them toward voting