[T]he intense media focus on the White House has meant substantially less ink, electrons and time have been spent covering two, significant class action lawsuits against the Democratic National Committee:
1) It’s shenanigans during the primary to weigh the nomination in Hillary Clinton’s favor.
2) Failure to pay its campaign workers for overtime.
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Yesterday Senate Bill 8, one of this year’s town tuitioning bills, made a major advancement as it passed with amendment #1786 in a 13 to 6 House Education Committee vote. It received bipartisan support with all Republicans and two Democrats, Rep. Barbara Shaw (Hillsborough 6) and Rep. Linda Tanner (Sullivan 9), voting for the bill.
The amendment empowers local school boards to make contracts with non-sectarian private schools as “school tuition programs.” Although this is a new designation, it is not a new concept as school boards may already enter into agreements with public and private schools. Private school placement is more common for students with special needs, but some districts offer it for other students, too. More…
On Friday, May 12, I received a message in the Hillel executive board group chat that was, to say the least, unsettling. It was a screenshot of a two-paragraph email from Hall Director Kaleigh Sosa explaining that “swastika drawings were found” in Stoke Hall.
What was unsettling to me about this message was not just the fact that acts of hate continued to target minorities on campus. What shook me to my core was the hall director’s response, labeling the incident an act of “bias” and “vandalism,” and then closing the email by calling on her residents to be “positive.” More…
EXETER — The Rockingham County Democrats are sponsoring a talk by Ray Buckley, chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party. His talk, “Reforming the Democratic National Committee,” will be held Wednesday, May 17 at 7 p.m. at the Exeter Inn, 90 Front St.“I encourage everyone concerned with the future of the Democratic Party to turn out Wednesday,” said Larry Drake, chairman of the Rockingham County Democrats. More…
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FBI agents arrested an Arizona man last week for threatening to shoot Rep. Martha McSally, a Republican who represents the same Arizona district Gabrielle Giffords represented when she was shot in the head in 2011.
Steve Martan, 58, left three separate expletive-laden messages on McSally’s congressional office voicemail in early May, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday in a U.S. District Court in Tuscon. In the first, he talked about wringing the congresswoman’s neck. More…
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There’s been a public dispute going on in Keene over the rights of student journalists.
This is all playing out at Keene State College, where editors at the student-run newspaper say administrators have been limiting access to faculty and staff for interviews.
Now, college officials are responding to those concerns. More…
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WASHINGTON – Top Democratic leaders gathered Tuesday to deliver a stark warning: Their party needs to do more than just talk about President Donald Trump.
Judging by their own words at the first major party cattlecall of 2017, that’s no easy task. More…
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While Huddleston’s tenure was littered with PR disasters, the first amendment still had a pinky hold on campus. Huddleston has announced his retirement this year. With his departure, who will champion the cause for Free Speech? More…
A white Michigan police officer who found out that he is 18 percent black has filed a discrimination lawsuit based on the persecution he suffered over his ancestry. Sgt. Cleon Brown has filed a suit against the city of Hastings, the police department and other city officials, claiming he was subjected to racial taunts after he revealed the results of a genetic test by Ancestry.com in 2016 that showed he was 18 percent African-American. More…
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