Stories
March for Our Lives rallies took place around the country – and across the state this past Saturday in Portsmouth, Peterborough and Nashua, among other places.
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Hartford’s hurricane relief center was where evacuees from Puerto Rico could come to get help: help finding housing, jobs, winter clothing — whatever supplies or services they needed to restart their lives in Connecticut.
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One of the largest farm businesses Vermont expanded its operation and constructed a manure pit in Franklin County last summer — without a permit or state oversight.
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CBP officers work at official ports of entry and they decide who enters the country and who doesn’t. But their broad authority has some civil rights advocates raising concerns.
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Residents of Amherst, Massachusetts, will soon vote on whether to put an end to their centuries-old Town Meeting and adopt a new form of government. The debate hasn’t always been friendly in this most liberal of New England towns.
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It’s a political insult that dates back to the 1800s and has been used as recently as last fall by the President: “He couldn’t get elected dogcatcher.” Often considered hyperbole, since there are no longer elected dogcatchers in the U.S., there’s a town in central Vermont where it could be taken quite literally.
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Ageth Okeny fled war in Sudan with her four children.
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Bernie Sanders inspired a political movement with his insurgent 2016 run for the Democratic presidential nomination. Yet he’s been reluctant to acknowledge that his campaign likely got some help from a Russian covert propaganda campaign.
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In early February, students at Princeton University protested when a professor used the N-word in a class about hate speech. He ended up canceling the course. It’s hardly the first time this epithet has sparked a debate over racial sensitivity and freedom of speech, including last semester at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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More than three weeks after a school shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, left 17 people dead, students are demanding that Congress pass tougher gun laws, but so far U.S. lawmakers have failed to act.