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The archive will preserve and document the story of the resistance to Northern Pass by “grassroots” citizens, as well as by conservation, environmental, recreational, and other non-governmental organizations, and by municipal and legislative groups.
I have neighbors in their sixties and seventies who no longer sit on the front porches of the houses in which they were born, because there is too much dust and noise from ATVs. The peace and quiet that attracted many second home owners to the region is gone, and it’s increasingly common to hear stories of people thinking of leaving. Even on lakes, people are selling.
Jimena Madrid riveted people around the world when her voice was captured on an audiotape after she was separated from her mother inside a Border Patrol detention facility. Three weeks later, reunification remains uncertain.
“The 50 Most Unforgettable Things You Have to Do Abroad Before You Die.” The author’s recommendations included such activities as a free-dive on a Caribbean shipwreck, a mountain bike ride down Bolivia’s no-rails Road of Death, and hiking with lungs burning to a Bhutanese monastery.
Alice Vartanian King, passed away on Saturday June 30, 2018. She was 70 years old.
The anniversary of the tornado hit me hard this year, and the news from the southern border haunts me. All those mothers, and all those children, who have lost everything and now have lost each other. Who is there for them? What are their nightmares made of?
Dick Tuck died last month. He was a minor political operative who worked for various Democrats back in the sixties and seventies. His specialty was at getting under Dick Nixon’s skin.
Cost-of-service rate treatment is exactly what we supposedly got away from by restructuring the electric industry to eliminate old-fashioned, vertically integrated utility monopolies. The parade of generators begging for a return to the good old days could well include facilities like Seabrook, Merrimack and Schiller stations.
The New England First Amendment Coalition mourns the loss of five staff members at the Capital Gazette community newspaper near Annapolis, Maryland, who were killed by a gunman last week in a senseless act of violence. We convey our utmost sympathies to the newspaper’s staff and to the families and friends of the victims.