Renewed Calls From Mass. To Close Seabrook Station
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Two Newburyport, Mass., city councilors have called for the shutdown of the Seabrook Station nuclear power plant, which has been operating since 1990.
Education
100,000 NYC School Children Security Screened Every Day
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Crime in the schools has dropped sharply but New York still requires students at more than 200 schools to take off their shoes and send their belongings through x-ray machines.
Politics
From Dirty Fish Secrets to a Mass Exodus: MuckReads
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Some of the best investigative reporting from around the country.
ACLU-NH, NHLA File Lawsuit Challenging Manchester’s Anti-panhandling Practices
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On January 11, 2016, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire (ACLU-NH) and New Hampshire Legal Assistance (NHLA) filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Manchester police department’s practice of detaining, dispersing, and charging peaceful panhandlers for allegedly “obstructing vehicular traffic on public streets” under New Hampshire’s disorderly conduct statute, even when the panhandlers are in a public place and do not step in the roadway.
Sarah’s View from the Borderlands: Our Worlds, Divided
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Sarah Freeman-Woolpert of Pembroke writes from the heart for InDepthNH.org while living in Sarajevo where she is conducting research on youth activism and civic engagement.
“Do you ever work with the students from the other side of town?” she asked a friend there.
Convicted Murderer Lopez Appeals Denial of New Trial to NH Supreme Court
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Convicted murderer Eduardo Lopez Jr. says a judge was wrong last month to rule that evidence of a police detective’s dishonesty decades ago wouldn’t have affected the 1993 guilty verdict against him.
A Showdown Year for Reproductive Rights
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Two potentially sweeping Supreme Court cases set the stage for a seismic shift in the battle over abortion and contraception.
Racist Temp Hiring, a Guest Worker Empire and Much More
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ProPublica’s picks for this week’s best investigative news stories from outlets across the country.