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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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Maura Healey, the attorney general of Massachusetts, set the Internet ablaze Tuesday with her non-criticism of the continuing riots – "Yes, America is burning, but that's how forests grow." Yet Healey has not always had a positive view of forest fires.
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It's not enough for white Americans to support the goals of George Floyd protesters, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren said. "We cannot simply be allies. We must be anti-racists," Warren said during a conference call Tuesday, June 2 with business leaders sponsored by the New England
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Restaurant owners, hair salon owners, pastors, and a Christian school are asking a state court to overturn Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker's executive orders that seriously limit what they can do during the coronavirus emergency. The plaintiffs, whose lawyers filed a complaint in Worcester Superior Court on Monday, June
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Ed Markey and Joe Kennedy III couldn't have been expecting to be asked about church-going during their U.S. Senate debate on Monday, June 1. But they were.
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The owner of a well-known restaurant in the North End of Boston said she and other restaurant owners were ready to defend their businesses if the rioters on Sunday night had made their way from Downtown Crossing to their neighborhood. Rioters smashed and looted stores and restaurants near Downtown Crossing
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Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker thanked George Floyd protesters in Boston who remained peaceful during protests on Sunday, May 31 but had harsh words for the rioters and for President Donald Trump. The president, according to published reports, told governors in a conference call on Monday that they need to "
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Seven Boston police officers sustained injuries during the riot Sunday night needing treatment at a hospital, police said. About 21 police cruisers were damaged — including at least one shown on television that was set on fire.
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Several restaurant owners, hair dressers, and pastors have filed a lawsuit claiming that Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker's executive orders drastically limiting their activities violate the state constitution. "What you're seeing is the practical effect of what happens when you don't follow constitutional procedure,