Matt McDonald
Matt McDonald was born in Brighton and grew up in Watertown. He has spent most of his life in the general area of Boston. He has worked for six newspaper organizations and several magazines, mostly as a reporter, but also as a copy editor and editor, among other things. His work has appeared in The Mashpee Messenger, Cape Cod News, and The Norfolk Boomerang.
Items by Matt McDonald
Does New York Dial-Back Suggest Ill Tidings for Massachusetts Attorney General’s Climate Change Case Against ExxonMobil?
November 12, 2019, 22:44 EST
Steve Lynch Not Woke Enough To Run U.S. House Impeachment Committee, Left-Wing Challenger Says
October 31, 2019, 22:42 EST
Calling ICE for Comment Draws Boycott Campaign for Harvard Student Newspaper
October 24, 2019, 19:06 EST
Mayoral Candidate Says He Won’t Raise Property Taxes As Much As State Law Allows
October 20, 2019, 23:50 EST
Public Transportation and Bike Lanes Over Roads, Say Ayanna Pressley, New D.C. Caucus
October 17, 2019, 21:31 EST
Pemberton Leaves U.S. Senate Race, Takes Shots at Kennedy, Markey, and Democratic Party
October 14, 2019, 22:05 EST
Governor Shouldn’t Plunge Into Gas-Tax-Like Climate Change Initiative, Taxpayer Advocate Says
October 12, 2019, 9:07 EST
Anti-Abortion-Funding Constitutional Amendment Ballot Question Gets Go-Ahead From Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office
September 5, 2019, 6:39 EST
Sex Offender Registry Defendant Can Pursue DNA Test To Try To Clear Himself, Massachusetts High Court Rules
August 22, 2019, 16:23 EST
Markey Endorses ROE Act Bill, Accepts Early Endorsement from Pro-Abortion Group
August 15, 2019, 22:28 EST
Indicted Massachusetts Judge To Get Back Pay and Continuing Pay While Federal Obstruction-of-Justice Case Proceeds
August 14, 2019, 11:10 EST
Immigrant Gets Second Bite at Plea Deal Apple Because Judge Didn’t Read Him Enough Deportation Warnings
August 9, 2019, 7:07 EST
Conservative Watchdog Calls For Investigation of Massachusetts House Speaker Over State Credit Card
August 6, 2019, 8:48 EST
Zero Vetoes: Fiscal Conservatives Hit Charlie Baker for Rubber-Stamping Massachusetts Legislature’s Budget
July 31, 2019, 23:12 EST
Connecticut Driver’s License Helps Mexican Illegal Immigrant Smuggle In Seven Other Illegals, Feds Say
July 27, 2019, 21:47 EST
Massachusetts Democrats Keep Calling for Impeaching Trump; Massachusetts GOP Chairman Says Mueller’s Testimony A ‘Disaster’ for Democrats
July 25, 2019, 8:00 EST
Massachusetts State Senator Shuts Down Pro-Lifer’s Recording of Committee Hearing on Anti-Planned Parenthood Bill
July 18, 2019, 13:07 EST
Massachusetts Legislators Eye Creating Commission That Could Ditch State Flag
July 2, 2019, 23:43 EST
Majority of Massachusetts Voters Oppose Expanding Late-Term Abortions, New Poll Finds
June 5, 2019, 13:17 EST
Brown University Is On Occupied Territory and Is Part of the Problem, About-To-Be-Tattooed New Graduate Tells Fellow Graduates
May 26, 2019, 20:46 EST
Taxpayer Advocate Chip Faulkner Dies — Stalwart of Citizens for Limited Taxation
May 24, 2019, 14:52 EST
Why A Pro-Abortion Rhode Island State Senator Killed An All-Nine-Months Abortion Bill
May 15, 2019, 20:06 EST
Restore Massachusetts Sales Tax To 5 Percent, Citizens for Limited Taxation Says
May 6, 2019, 17:01 EST
Judge Indicted for Helping Illegal Immigrant Elude ICE Agent at Newton District Court
April 25, 2019, 17:14 EST
Letting Unsecured Gun Get Stolen Is Enough To Lose License To Carry, Massachusetts Court Rules – Even After 50 Years of Incident-Free Gun Ownership
April 19, 2019, 17:25 EST
Former Boston Globe Writer Says He Had No Intention of P—— in Bill Kristol’s Salmon
April 17, 2019, 20:15 EST
Restaurant Pay Court Case May Lead To Wide-Ranging Bay-Pay Problems for Massachusetts Companies
April 12, 2019, 21:35 EST
Boston Globe Was For Column Calling for Urinating in Bill Kristol’s Food Before It Was Somewhat Against It Before It Was Against It Some More Before It Was Totally Against It
April 12, 2019, 18:50 EST
Family Intervention A Goal of State Commission on Homosexual and Transgender Youth
April 8, 2019, 11:59 EST
School Police Officers Would Get Sweeter Pension Terms Under Boston City Council Proposal
April 4, 2019, 18:02 EST
State Offers Cash To Deal With Shark Attacks on Cape Cod – But Only After They Occur
April 3, 2019, 17:50 EST
Charlie Baker Sounds Skeptical About ROE Act Abortion Bill; House Speaker Doesn’t Greenlight It, Either
April 2, 2019, 7:57 EST
Massachusetts Republican Assembly Issues Challenge on Anti-Abortion Movie ‘Unplanned’
March 29, 2019, 18:51 EST
Markey Votes ‘Present’ On His Own Green New Deal Resolution; Says United States Must Lead To Get China and India To Follow
March 27, 2019, 6:29 EST
Massachusetts To Fund Planned Parenthood Even If Federal Government Doesn’t
March 25, 2019, 22:47 EST
Governor Baker Holding the Fort Against Clean-Needle Drug Injection Sites in Massachusetts
March 23, 2019, 19:19 EST
Several Hundred Pro-Family Massachusetts Residents Turn Out To Lobby Legislators on Beacon Hill
March 20, 2019, 14:07 EST
Markey Hits Trump Rule Aimed At Planned Parenthood; Catholic Group Calls Markey ‘Professional Panderer’
March 19, 2019, 20:16 EST
Massachusetts House Passes Conversion Therapy Ban; Senate Sponsor Waffling on Child-Abuse Provision
March 13, 2019, 17:51 EST
Ayanna Pressley Serious About Lowering Voting Age To 16, But U.S. House Isn’t, For Now
March 8, 2019, 2:48 EST
Freedom, Safety, Suicide, and Life: Conversion Therapy Ban Draws Intense Testimony on Beacon Hill
March 6, 2019, 19:16 EST
Framingham To Study Sanctuary City Status;
Opponent Says Appoint ‘Angel Moms’ To Panel
February 20, 2019, 23:11 EST
Cape Town Doesn’t Have To Pay Waterfront Property Owner for Denying House, Court Says
February 19, 2019, 18:38 EST
Massachusetts High Court Upholds Text-Suicide Conviction, But Doesn’t Rule on Assisted Suicide
February 6, 2019, 13:31 EST
Abortions Easier To Get After 24 Weeks and For Minors If New Massachusetts Bill Passes
February 4, 2019, 21:56 EST
Charlie Baker Is Now ‘Their Excellency, The Governor,’ Massachusetts House Says
February 1, 2019, 8:46 EST
Maine’s First Recreational Marijuana Store Getting Closer … But Could Old Graves Get in the Way?
January 11, 2019, 15:47 EST
Mashpee Wampanoag Casino Still A Pipe Dream, But New Bill in Congress Could Rescue Tribe
January 8, 2019, 21:32 EST
Columbus Day Survives Attack in Framingham – But He’ll Have To Share Space on School Calendar
January 3, 2019, 18:27 EST
Bristol County Sheriff Tom Hodgson
Taking Trump’s Side in Government
Shutdown Over Wall
December 22, 2018, 15:14 EST
Tiny Tax Cut Next Year Inching Toward Finish Line; Gratitude Hard To Find
December 17, 2018, 17:59 EST
Lion’s Share of Teachers’ Union Dues Don’t Stay With Local Unions,
Pioneer Study Says
November 14, 2018, 21:28 EST
Feds: Dominican National Used Fraudulent U.S. Passport To Get Federal Benefits
November 9, 2018, 22:07 EST
Pro-Yes-on-3 Ad Agency Alters Ad After Objections From Opponents of Gender-Identity Law
November 3, 2018, 8:10 EST
What Happened at Woburn Target?
Murky Bathroom Encounter Roils Question 3 Campaign
October 30, 2018, 21:39 EST
UMass Officials: Our Bathrooms and Locker Rooms Will Stay Transgender Regardless of Question 3 Outcome
October 29, 2018, 20:54 EST
To Wax or Not To Wax:
Question 3 Radio Debate on
Gender Identity Puts Transgender Beauty Spa Case Front and Center
October 25, 2018, 19:22 EST
Possible $50,000 Penalty For Gender-Identity Law Violations, Question 3 Opponent Says
October 4, 2018, 18:45 EST
Possible $50,000 Penalty For Repeatedly Violating Massachusetts Gender Identity Law, No-on-Question-3 Advocate Says
October 4, 2018, 15:56 EST
Pro-Abortion Left-Wingers Rally Against Kavanaugh at Boston City Hall Plaza
October 1, 2018, 15:31 EST
Transgender Customer Demanded ‘Full Brazilian’ From Beauty Salon Under Massachusetts Gender Identity Law
September 27, 2018, 15:02 EST
Kavanaugh Flatly Denies Accusations, Gets Personal in Emotional Television Interview
September 25, 2018, 7:51 EST
‘Bathroom Bill’ Opponents Release Ad Highlighting Fears About Sex Offenders
September 21, 2018, 11:32 EST
Lori Trahan Wins Dem Nod in Third Congressional District, Takes Shot At Rick Green
September 17, 2018, 22:10 EST
Rick Green Makes Splash With First General Election Ad in Run for Congress
September 12, 2018, 9:53 EST
Pro-Bathroom Bill Ballot Question Committee Has 35 Times More Money Than Opponents in Massachusetts
September 10, 2018, 21:08 EST
Corporate Campaign Contributions Still Illegal in Massachusetts … For Now
September 6, 2018, 16:18 EST
What To Make of Tomorrow’s Massachusetts GOP Primary Results … Before They Happen
September 3, 2018, 13:03 EST
Bombshell Letter Attacking Pope Francis Over McCarrick Also Questions Cardinal O’Malley
August 27, 2018, 12:05 EST
GOP Having Field Day With Elizabeth Warren’s Comments on Immigration, Mollie Tibbetts Murder
August 22, 2018, 17:47 EST
No More Sam: Somerville Mayor To Abstain From Boston Beer Over Pro-Trump-Tax-Cut Comments
August 14, 2018, 7:38 EST
GOP Candidates Take Tongs To Elizabeth Warren – And Save A Little for Each Other
August 8, 2018, 15:40 EST
Three Lies and a Truth: Long ‘New York’ Article on Elizabeth Warren Cut Down To Size
July 24, 2018, 20:17 EST
High Court Ruling on Abortion Counseling Breathes New Life Into Challenging Bans on ‘Conversion Therapy’
June 27, 2018, 15:14 EST
Shutting The Back Door: How One Mother Sees Proposed Ban in Massachusetts on ‘Conversion Therapy’ for Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity
May 29, 2018, 23:28 EST
Marriage-Supporting Graduate Barred From Providence College Campus After Giving Administrator What-For
May 23, 2018, 18:02 EST
High School Pulls Plug on Veterans Event Speaker Because of Conservative Views
April 26, 2018, 15:36 EST
Entrepreneur Rick Green Says He’ll Empower Voters The Way He Has His Customers
February 25, 2018, 21:45 EST
Political Science Hacks Create Totally Fair and Unbiased Ranking of U.S. Presidents
February 21, 2018, 12:36 EST
Galvin: Trump Administration ‘Sabotaging’ Massachusetts Through Are-You-A-Citizen Query in Census
February 6, 2018, 18:59 EST
Lifeline To Oppressed Easthampton Ninth-Graders: How To Fight The Power and Stay Cool
December 18, 2017, 20:41 EST
Christian Culture in New England? New College Center Seeking To Spread The Word
December 5, 2017, 18:04 EST
Church of England Leader Can’t Understand Why Christians in America Support Donald Trump? Here’s Why, Your Grace
November 27, 2017, 15:52 EST
Don’t Worry, New Hampshire Women, Bill Clinton’s Got Your Back on This One
November 19, 2017, 7:54 EST
Steve Bannon Says He’ll Put ‘Good Money’ Toward Proving New Hampshire Was Stolen From Trump
November 10, 2017, 8:56 EST
Are You An Uzbekistan Terrorist? Here’s An Online Application To Come To The United States, In Your Native Language
November 1, 2017, 18:23 EST
Massachusetts Senate Gutting Statutory Rape? Key Legislator Says No, But Family Advocate Wary of Bill
November 1, 2017, 7:40 EST
Another Massachusetts Bishop Shifts Policy on Signature Gathering for Abortion-Funding Petition
October 30, 2017, 18:42 EST
Cardinal O’Malley Shifts Course on Signature Gathering for Anti-Abortion-Funding Petition at Churches
October 28, 2017, 12:13 EST
White Supremacist Horse Shows What Confederate Statues Mess Is Really All About
September 1, 2017, 14:33 EST
Human Chain Beach Heroes Helped Save A Family; Maybe They Can Help Save A Nation
July 11, 2017, 15:56 EST
Can Seniors Joining Service Wear Military Insignia To High School Graduation? School Officials Say No
June 14, 2017, 8:13 EST
Five Free Family-Friendly Places To Visit in Massachusetts During April Vacation (and Beyond)
April 20, 2017, 6:32 EST
The Struggles at Two Boston High Schools: Will Axing Teachers Fix the Problems?
February 16, 2017, 7:54 EST
Vice President Mike Pence To Speak At March for Life in Washington
January 26, 2017, 23:16 EST
Church/State Flap Nixes School Chorus Easter Appearance at Italian Basilica
January 18, 2017, 14:55 EST
Biotech Firm Can Now Buy State Land in Worcester
January 6, 2017, 15:11 EST
Not so fast: Massachusetts AG office says churches not always exempt from ‘bathroom bill’
December 19, 2016, 18:07 EST
