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By Mike Mastovich The Tribune-Democrat, Johnstown, Pa. (TNS)
His age and cause of death had not been announced as of Tuesday, but Duncan told The Tribune-Democrat he was 90 years old during a February 2017 interview about the 40th anniversary of "Slap Shot."
Players and fans still recite the lines from the movie, which made the Hanson Brothers hockey household names and celebrated its 45th anniversary this year.
In 2017, Duncan recalled rehearsing a scene with iconic actor Paul Newman, who had the starring role of aging hockey player-coach Reggie Dunlop in the George Roy Hill-directed "Slap Shot."
"The place they used to film the radio show in Johnstown, (Newman) came into the room and said, 'Do you want to run these lines?' " Duncan said during the 2017 interview. "I said, 'Of course.' We ran the lines and he looked at me and said, 'You know, you're a hell of an actor.' I said, 'Thank you, sir. So are you.' "
Duncan had many memorable scenes in the movie, including one in which his hair piece partially falls off during a tussle in the Cambria County War Memorial Arena press box. Actor Michael Ontkean, who played the role of Chiefs scoring leader Ned Braden, chastised Duncan's Carr by saying, "You're going bald, Jim. Can't you face up to that?"
Ned Braden described the "rug" Carr wore as "sensationally ugly."
During a 2007 interview coinciding with the 30th anniversary of "Slap Shot," Duncan explained how the hairpiece came to be.
"I remember watching the local sportscaster in Johnstown and studying him," Duncan told The Tribune-Democrat in 2007. "That was the guy I was playing.
"When I went for the wig, George Roy Hill said, 'I don't care what you get, just get something outrageous.'
"I went to Glosser's and went to the wig department," Duncan said of the former downtown Johnstown store. "The stylist started showing me wigs that made it look like you didn't have a wig. I said, 'No.'
"Then I saw one she pushed aside and I said, 'That's the one.'
"I stuck it on my head and looked in the mirror and started laughing. George looked at me and started laughing. He said, 'If you dare, I dare.' "
In addition to "Slap Shot," Duncan had roles in "Love Story" (1970), "An Unmarried Woman" (1978) and "Used Cars" (1980), among other movies. He was a pioneering Second City Theater actor who was in the Chicago company's first revue in 1959.
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Banned accounts will not be allowed back onto Twitter until the social media platform has "a clear process for doing so," Elon Musk tweeted in the early hours on Wednesday, giving more clarity about the potential return of Twitter's most famous banned user, former President Donald Trump.
Twitter users, advertisers and its own employees have been watching closely for signs of what Musk will do in his first week as Twitter's owner.
The Tesla chief executive has previously said Twitter should not permanently ban users and that he would reverse the ban on Trump, who was suspended for risk of further incitement of violence after the U.S. Capitol riot last year.
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Two rusted culverts were sling-loaded from Nash Stream by a Black Hawk helicopter.
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By Tech. Sgt. Charles Johnston NH National Guard
ODELL — New Hampshire Army National Guard aviation helped mitigate an ecological hazard in the North Country on Oct. 19.
Two rusted culverts were sling-loaded from Nash Stream by a Black Hawk helicopter, hoisted up and away through the forest canopy with a 130-foot line and cargo nets.
John Magee, New Hampshire Department of Fish and Game fish habitat biologist, said the culvert removals follow $1.5 million in various brook trout restoration efforts.
“We’re getting rid of stuff that shouldn’t be in the streams, making the habitat better for brook trout,” Magee said.
Both culverts were dropped off a few miles away, where they could be more easily hauled for safe disposal.
The entire operation was made possible through the Innovative Readiness Response program, which provides guardsmen with real-world training opportunities in their community. And though the NHARNG works regularly with Fish and Game during search and rescue operations, the three-way partnership with the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources was a first.
“I think it was a great program,” said Chief Warrant Officer 2 John Blair, who helped organize the mission. “It got us the opportunity to do some training that we normally don’t get the opportunity to do.”
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By Josh Smith and Soo-hyang Choi Reuters
SEOUL -- North Korea fired at least 23 missiles into the sea on Wednesday, including one that landed less than 40 miles off South Korea's coast, which South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol described as "territorial encroachment" and Washington denounced as "reckless."
In Washington, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby called the North Korean launches "reckless" and said the United States would make sure it had the military capabilities in place to defend its treaty allies South Korea and Japan.
South Korean warplanes fired three air-to-ground missiles into the sea north across the NLL in response, the South's military said. An official said the weapons used included an AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER, which is a U.S.-made "stand-off" precision attack weapon that can fly for up to 170 miles with an 800-pound warhead.
"President Yoon Suk-yeol noted North Korea's provocation today was an effective act of territorial encroachment by a missile intruding the NLL for the first time since (the two Koreas') division," his office said.
When asked whether the missile was flying towards the South's territory and should have been intercepted, a senior presidential official said, "Strictly speaking, it did not land in our territory but in the Exclusive Economic Zone under our jurisdiction, therefore it was not subject to interception."
North Korea has continuously been launching missiles over the past year in violation of multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said.
"It's unprecedented in the sense that there were so many," she said of Wednesday's launches.
Kirby told his news briefing that the United States has information that indicates North Korea is covertly supplying Russia with a "significant" number of artillery shells for its war in Ukraine and that Washington would consult with the United Nations on accountability issues over the shipments.
Kirby said North Korea was attempting to obscure the shipments by funneling them through countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
The missile that crossed the NLL was one of three short-range ballistic missiles fired from the North Korean coastal area of Wonsan into the sea, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. The JCS later said as many as 14 other missiles of various types had been fired from North Korea's east and west coasts.
The JCS said at least one landed south of the NLL on the east coast, and where air raid warnings were sounded.
The North also fired more than 100 rounds of artillery from its east coast into a military buffer zone, South Korea's military said. The firing violated a 2018 military agreement banning hostile acts in border areas, the JCS said.
State Department spokesperson Ned Price said that the drills were purely defensive and harbored no hostile intent. Price added that Washington and its allies had also made clear that there would be "profound costs and profound consequences" if North Korea resumed nuclear testing. He did not elaborate.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian told a regular briefing in Beijing that safeguarding peace and stability on the peninsula was in everyone's interest.
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Obama was in Las Vegas to lend his star power to candidates who are in extremely close races for U.S. Senate and governor ahead of the Nov. 8 election. He also backed candidates further down the ballot in races for the Congress, state attorney general and secretary of state.
In Nevada, incumbent Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is facing a fierce challenge from Republican Adam Laxalt, a former attorney general who supported Trump's false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen by fraud.
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JERUSALEM -- Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to return to power in one of the most right-wing coalitions in Israel's history, causing jitters among Palestinians and Arab neighbors who fear it could ratchet up tensions across the Middle East.
Netanyahu's prospective alliance with ultranationalist firebrand Itamar Ben-Gvir has alarmed Palestinians and members of Israel's minority Arabs. Asked whether Washington shared such concerns, a White House National Security Council spokesperson declined to comment.
Netanyahu vowed to form a "stable, national government" that would act responsibly, avoid "unnecessary adventures" and "expand the circle of peace."
After a campaign dominated by worries over security and the cost of living, support for centrist Prime Minister Yair Lapid's ruling coalition collapsed. Lapid stopped short of conceding victory pending the final tally. But he also canceled his attendance at next week's U.N. climate conference.
Ben-Gvir, who advocates expelling anyone deemed disloyal to Israel, is a former member of Kach, a group on Israeli and U.S. terrorist watchlists, and was once convicted for racist incitement. He has moderated some of his more extreme positions.
His rise alongside Netanyahu has deepened Palestinian skepticism over prospects for a political solution after a campaign that unfolded during increasing violence in the occupied West Bank, with near-daily raids and clashes.
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By Rachel Lerman and Meryl Kornfield The Washington Post
CVS Health and Walgreens, two of the nation's largest retail pharmacies, have agreed to pay about $10 billion to states, cities and Native American tribes to settle all opioid lawsuits.
The settlements announced Wednesday are not yet finalized, the companies said, and are not an admission of wrongdoing in the opioid epidemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. A substantial number of the plaintiffs would need to sign on to receive the funds.
If the CVS settlement goes through, the chain would distribute roughly $4.9 billion to states and local governments and about $130 million to Native American tribes over 10 years, beginning in 2023. Walgreens has tentatively agreed to pay $4.79 billion to states and $154.5 million to tribes. Walgreens would additionally pay about $753.5 million in attorneys' fees; those charges are included in the CVS figure.
Walmart also has a settlement pending that will pay $3 billion to resolve similar lawsuits, people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post. The retailer declined a request for comment.
During the years-long litigation, communities across the country have accused the retailers of dispensing pain pills with little regard for red flags and allowing opioids to be siphoned onto the black market. The retailers say they followed the law and blamed doctors for overprescribing.
Walgreens, which handled nearly 1 in 5 of the most addictive opioids at the height of the crisis, said the settlement "is in the best interest of the company and our stakeholders at this time."
"As one of the largest pharmacy chains in the nation, we remain committed to being a part of the solution, and this settlement framework will allow us to keep our focus on the health and wellbeing of our customers and patients, while making positive contributions to address the opioid crisis," the company said in a statement.
The tentative settlements would allow the companies -- among the last left in the national litigation with deep pockets -- to avoid further judgments after losses in court.
The three were ordered to pay about $650 million earlier this year to two Ohio counties after a federal jury concluded that they played a significant role in the opioid crisis faced by Lake and Trumbull counties. In August, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that Walgreens "substantially contributed" to the city's worsening drug problem; a trial to determine financial damages begins Monday.
The agreements would not extend to the Ohio counties or New Mexico, which recently wrapped up its own trial in state court.
Peter Mougey, an attorney representing some of the communities, including San Francisco, said he believes the recent court decisions brought the companies to the table.
"I'm 100 percent confident that that message got back to the boardrooms of these three defendants, and they knew that once these verdicts started coming out in full force that they were going to have a very, very difficult resolution," he said. "There would be no more Walgreens if they got hit with multiple verdicts."
In a statement, a national committee of lead plaintiff attorneys, including Mougey, encouraged communities to move quickly to collect their funds, which could go toward various abatement methods, including treatment programs, harm reduction and public awareness campaigns.
"Once effectuated, these agreements will be the first resolutions reached with pharmacy chains and will equip communities across the country with the much-needed tools to fight back against this epidemic and bring about tangible, positive change," they said.
The national pharmacy deal comes after other major players, including the largest pharmaceutical makers and distributors, have already reached agreements to resolve litigation or finalize bankruptcy plans.
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The state's all-Democratic congressional delegation announced Wednesday New Hampshire would get $34 million from the the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). Here, Dan Phaneuf of City Fuel delivered home-heating oil to a house on Manchester Street in Manchester.
WASHINGTON — New Hampshire will receive nearly $34 million in home energy aid for low-income families, a 30% increase over what the program on its own has provided in past years, the state's congressional delegation announced Wednesday.
The Low Income Home Heating Assistance Program (LIHEAP) provides aid to eligible families to help pay their home heating bills and prevent shutoffs.
U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee working group that finances LIHEAP.
Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., said she lobbied with a bipartisan group of lawmakers from the hardest hit states to gain approval of $1 billion for the program last September.
The additional aid is welcome given the average cost of home heating fuel has gone up more than 80% over the past year.
In 2021, the state received a record, $35 million in total home heating aid. This included money coming from the LIHEAP budget as well as from COVID-19 relief laws such as the American Rescue Plan.
The grants prior to the winter of 2021 were so significant the state increased by nearly 60% the average grant given to homeowners.
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The Bedford Varsity Band performed for students at Bedford’s McKelvie Intermediate School last year for students in grades 5 and 6. The performance was followed by a question-and-answer session to allow students to find out more about the opportunities available to them in high school.
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Joelle Wilensky with her family as part of the Bedford High School marching band. From left: father, Mark Wilensky; brother, Derek Wilensky; Joelle; and her mother, Lauren Wilensky.
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Joelle Wilensky earns Girl Scouts’ highest honor, the Gold Award, for her work inspiring young musicians
Determined to inspire young musicians to look forward to playing in the high school band and to spread the love of music in her community, Joelle Wilensky of Bedford is now a Gold Award-winning Girl Scout for making that idea a reality.
Wilensky, 18, has earned the highest honor possible for a Girl Scout in grades 9-12. The Gold Award is earned by Girl Scouts who make the world a better place through at least 80 hours of service to their community. Wilensky’s project, Instrumental for Our Schools, addressed the lack of information in her school district about the opportunities for young musicians.
“I had noticed, especially with the impact of COVID, and everyone learning remotely, that throughout the school district there were fewer and fewer students who were getting a music education and being involved in the music department,” said the recent graduate of Bedford High School. “Singing and playing instruments is really hard to do remotely in a group. And also, just getting people in the community of Bedford, my hometown, to have them be aware of the music department, and gaining additional support for that.”
She helped start the new Varsity Band at the high school, which even some middle school students are welcome to join. They went on tour to McKelvie Intermediate School in uniform to play for the students and allow them to ask questions about joining the band. The performances and discussions were recorded, and videos posted on the town’s music booster website.
“Music is a very important force,” said Wilensky. “It’s very much an art form, a form of expression, for many people. … It’s really unfortunate that some people don’t ever get to experience that outlet. I really like when people are able to get involved. Also, it is a great community! I found a lot of friends there.”
Rebuilding interest in the music department is a long-term goal, and one which Wilensky said will be supported by those in the music department.
“I was very happy to see how many students at the intermediate school were invested and asking questions,” she said. “They were very excited to see all the things that we had to show off. Like how the drum majors -- the student conductors for the marching band -- wear capes as part of their uniform, and there were definitely some students getting excited about that!”
Along with playing clarinet in the high school band and participating in the winter percussion group, Wilensky has been an active Girl Scout for 12 years, earning the Girl Scout Silver Award in her younger years for helping build an outdoor shelter at a local animal rescue. She loved hanging out with her Girl Scout friends and helping her community.
“I’m generally much more giving than I would be otherwise, willing to help people, understand the struggles of others, wanting to help whenever I can,” she said.
She’s traveled the world, too, spending time in England just before the pandemic, where her troop spent a week in London, visiting one of Girl Scouts’ World Centers, Pax Lodge, and exploring the area.
While at Bedford High School, Wilensky was a member of the National Honor Society; Tri-M, the music honor society; and Mu Alpha Theta, the math honor society. She is now a freshman at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, where she is studying computer and systems engineering.
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Gov. Chris Sununu said he believes the first-ever, voluntary paid and family leave program in New Hampshire will be popular. Companies that wish to offer it can begin enrolling Dec. 1 with benefits to begin on Jan. 1. All state employees will get the benefit and individuals working for companies that don't offer it can apply for their own coverage.
CONCORD — Starting Dec. 1, all New Hampshire companies can enroll in the first-in-the-nation, voluntary paid family and medical leave program, Gov. Chris Sununu said Wednesday.
MetLife will administer this benefit for the state that will offer employees up to six weeks at 60% of their salaries to deal with their own health or to care for a family member.
Companies that offer the benefit can claim a tax credit from the Business Enterprise Tax that's equal to 50% of what they pay out in premiums, Sununu said.
“We were told it wasn’t going to happen, it wasn’t going to work but here we are,” Sununu said.
The proposal was Sununu’s response to Democratic lawmakers who had pushed a mandatory paid leave bill that he vetoed twice over a three-year period.
Michael Skelton, president of the Business & Industry Association, predicted this would be especially popular for small businesses that lack the personnel to administer an insurance plan on their own.
“This is another tool in the toolbox for New Hampshire employers to attract and retain talent,” Skelton said.
Benefits will start on Jan. 1 for companies that choose to join.
Sununu stressed companies could decide at any point in the future to enroll.
The law Sununu signed also permits individuals working at a business without the benefit to buy coverage on their own.
The program will be open for individuals to apply from Jan. 1 through March.
The law caps the premiums an individual with his own coverage would pay at no more than $5 a week.
All state employees also receive the benefit starting next Jan. 1.
Sununu said state labor unions negotiated this benefit as part of their collective bargaining agreements and expected they would continue to support it in the future.
Assistant Insurance Commissioner D.J. Bettencourt said the premium companies pay for coverage would be based on risk factors including the type of business.
“The rate for a business run out of dentist office is going to be a lot different than what a company with loggers would pay,” Bettencourt said.
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Joined by UNH researchers, scientists and administrators, Dean has made nine stops in eight towns over the last two days. Each of the stops focused on "key land, sea and space grant missions, as well as state policy priority areas of health care, education, workforce and the environment,” UNH said.
Located in a former mill building on the east bank of the Winnipesaukee River in downtown Laconia, Rogue, founded in 2020, got off to an inauspicious start, said Grimmett.
“We had super-cheap internet, and we couldn’t communicate with NASA,” in 2020, he said.
Shortly thereafter, more good news arrived at Rogue’s Union Avenue headquarters, including up to $2.75 million in funding through the SpaceWERX Orbital Prime initiative of the U.S. Space Force.
In what Grimmett at the time called an unprecedented achievement, Rogue had 11 of its 13 proposals selected for funding, with funding for two others possible in the future.
“Having that kind of capability in your backyard is a pretty neat thing,” said Grimmett, who told Dean that Rogue is looking to create a local STEM center to “build a pipeline of students” who might become Rogue employees.
Grimmett urged the state to do more to fund new companies and improve the start-up culture in New Hampshire.
“We've got to do more to keep our New Hampshire-trained people” in New Hampshire, he said.
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The Board of Mayor and Aldermen deemed the property surplus on a voice vote, with only At-Large member Joe Kelly Levasseur opposed.
A redevelopment proposal for the site from Southern New Hampshire Services (SNHS) and Granite State Children’s Alliance (GSCA) includes creating 20 units of affordable housing for seniors, an early childhood classroom, and a Child Advocacy Center, operated by Granite State Children’s Alliance, offering services to children who have experienced trauma.
“Hallsville School is an important part of our City’s history,” said Mayor Joyce Craig in a statement. “By leasing it to Southern New Hampshire Services and Granite State Children’s Alliance, we are ensuring this historic building is preserved, meets the needs of our community, and is a complement to the neighborhood. There will be a lot of work ahead, and we will continue to involve the neighbors in the process as we move forward.”
“Southern New Hampshire Services and Granite State Children’s Alliance want to work cooperatively with the Hallsville community,” said Alderman Mary Heath of Ward 7. “They respect the school’s multigenerational history and will continue Hallsville’s commitment to serving children and families.”
The next neighborhood meeting on the Hallsville School redevelopment will be held on Nov. 16 at 6 p.m. in the Hallsville School gymnasium.
The proposal is similar to plans rejected by the board earlier this year.
Earlier this year, Southern New Hampshire Services and Granite State Children’s Alliance submitted a plan to convert the vacant Hallsville School building into a facility serving everyone from children to seniors. City officials raised concerns over a lack of communication with neighbors and a key piece of the plan — giving the building to organizers for free.
The building and associated parcels were appraised at $4.4 million in 2017.
Members of the Aldermanic Committee on Lands and Buildings voted unanimously to receive and file the plan, effectively killing the proposal at the time.
A community forum held in April to solicit thoughts on the future of the school building generated dozens of ideas, ranging from affordable housing for families to a multicultural youth center, to housing for seniors.
Aldermen directed staff to draft a Request For Proposals for the site. Officials said they would include language in the request addressing concerns about the impact any project may have on traffic, the neighborhood and the city’s desire to address affordable housing needs.
The RFP stated the city’s goal is “the redevelopment of the school while maintaining the integrity of the historic building.”
Committee members said they felt it important to include the ability to keep the former school’s gymnasium available for use by the community as one of the criteria in the RFP.
The RFP received just two responses. One from Studio 550 Art Center, looking to create a mixed-use development that would be home to a community art center, a small business incubator for the arts, and 25-30 units of affordable housing with rent capped at 80% of Area Median Income (AMI). The other proposal was from Southern New Hampshire Services and Granite State Children’s Alliance to reinvent the former school building as a multi-use facility providing services to both families and seniors.
Under the Studio 550 Center proposal, the building would maintain its “historic exterior appearance, including the clock tower, and the parking area would have greenery and plantings added for aesthetics, shade, and gathering space.”
The plans call for a mix of studio, 1-bedroom and 2-bedroom units, with a purchase price of $100,000.
The final bell rang at Hallsville in June 2021, 130 years after it opened.
Former Superintendent of Schools John Goldhardt recommended the school be closed as part of the Fiscal Year 2022 budget.
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Passengers leave the Mount Washington Cog Railway, which takes passengers to the summit, in 2020.
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NORTH CONWAY — The Mount Washington Commission unanimously approved a revised master plan last week for the 60-acre Mount Washington State Park that backers say aims to protect the environment atop the tallest peak in the Northeast, though critics of the plan disagree.
State Sen. Jeb Bradley of Wolfeboro, chairman of the commission, said at Friday’s meeting at Pope Memorial Library the proposed plan is clear that its priorities are to preserve the summit environment while providing services to visitors.
Critics of the plan say it isn’t explicit enough about protecting the mountaintop in the face of an ever-increasing number of visitors.
Howie Wemyss, a commission member who represents the Mount Washington Auto Road, expressed his concern that the master plan should be required to follow the recommendations of a planned environmental assessment, rather than consider them.
Citing the “overwhelming comments of the public” at the master plan hearings in Concord and Conway earlier this year in support of the assessment, Wemyss asked, “are we afraid of protecting the environment up there?”
Regardless of who is bringing visitors to the summit — both the Auto Road and Cog Railway do, but an even larger number of visitors hike up — Wemyss told the commission that “you just can’t keep growing the number of people” there.
Bradley said adoption of the master plan is the first step in getting the Legislature to approve money for the environmental assessment.
The assessment “will happen,” said Bradley, who predicted “it’ll be a top priority for the next Legislature.”
Phil Bryce, who serves on the commission as a representative of the public and had served until his retirement in September as director of New Hampshire Parks and Recreation, cautioned that requiring the commission to incorporate assessment recommendations risked conflict with other sections of the master plan.
Robert Kirsch, a lawyer who represents the Mount Washington Observatory on the commission, said the proposed plan “accomplishes what most of the people on the commission wanted to see.”
He said the master plan “does skew in favor of the environment explicitly,” and would allow the commission to explore “opportunities consistent with this plan,” among other things, generating revenues from the Sherman Adams Building in the state park, where the observatory is a tenant.
Jamie Sayen, of Stratford, told the commission that it was “absurd” that they adopted a master plan without first doing an environmental assessment.
“Human aspirations are in conflict with natural limits” atop Mount Washington, he said, adding that when commission members spoke about balancing priorities, it was code to the environment taking “a back seat.”
If adopted, the master plan would have “zero credibility,” Sayen warned, with scientists and the public.
The Alpine zone on Mount Washington is disappearing, he said, and in adopting the plan, “you (the commission) are dooming the alpine ecology, and I don’t see any balance in that.”
Karen Umberger, a commission member and state representative from Kearsarge, said adopting the plan “doesn’t mean we don’t have a lot of work to do.”
Earlier she pointed out that the commission has worked for 10 years to get a handle on how many hikers come up Mount Washington daily but has been unable to do so.
She dwelt on the positive that on the way to the plan, “We were not shouting at each other throughout the whole process. That is good.”
The commission also fielded questions about the proposed Lizzie’s Station project. Bradley pointed out that the seasonal hotel — which would be made up of 18 rail coaches on land controlled by the Cog Railway — is out of the commission’s jurisdiction.
That observation prompted calls for the creation of an entity that had oversight of the entire mountain, not just the summit. Bradley said the Legislature is the place to go to either amend the law regulating the authority and scope of the current commission, or to establish one with broader powers.
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Manchester Police Chief Allen Aldenberg speaks about the new Manchester Public Health and Safety Team (PHAST) during a team introduction June 21, 2022, at City Hall.
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Manchester aldermen deferred a request from the city’s police chief to offer detectives and their supervisors a $25 a week “on-call” stipend for investigators frequently called back to work for major crimes and incidents.
In tabling the proposal, aldermen asked for more information. Ward 10’s Bill Barry questioned whether other unions would seek similar compensation if this “availability pay” was approved.
“We just went through negotiations, and they were pretty involved,” Barry said. “And now if we open this up for the police, is that going to open up the door for other departments, like the highway department? They get called out — are we going to give them $25 a week to be on standby? I have a hard time with it right now.”
Aldenberg said he views the stipend as “something small” the city can do to help retain employees. The Manchester Police Department has lost 46 officers since 2019, including 17 to the private sector.
“I don’t want to be faulted for bringing something up on behalf of my employees because some other department may, quite frankly, have their feelings hurt because I moved quicker than them,” Aldenberg said.
“I just don’t want to keep kicking this can down the road. Let’s be frank — every department in this city is losing people, and if we have the ability to do something small for them to retain people, we’re doing a disservice to our employees if we don’t at least try to make this happen for them.”
Under Aldenberg’s proposal, investigators and their supervisors working in four specialty units — detective, domestic violence, juvenile and traffic — would receive a $25 per week stipend for being available to respond to off-duty emergency incidents.
Manchester Police SWAT team members already receive the stipend, which is separate from overtime pay given to officers for regular duty hours or other shifts beyond the regular 40 hours per week.
More frequent callbacks
City detectives often are called back outside of regular shifts to respond to the same incidents as SWAT team members. Detectives work day and evening shifts. No detectives are scheduled to work overnights, Aldenberg said.
“The rate of callbacks for such investigators has increased as the number of homicides, shootings, suicides and incidents of domestic violence, sexual assault and complicated motor vehicle accidents have increased in the city,” city Human Resources Director Lisa Drabik wrote in a memo to aldermen supporting the proposal.
Aldenberg requested a start date of Jan. 1, 2023, for the stipend. He said he has funds in his FY ’23 budget to cover the stipend until the end of the fiscal year, but additional funds of approximately $65,000 — or $1,300 per investigator — would need to be appropriated for the remaining three years of the current police contract.
The contract includes 3% cost of living raises — plus steps and longevity pay — with 4% increases in 2023 and 2024, and a 3% cost-of-living raise in 2025.
Attorney Matt Upton, who helped negotiate more than a dozen contracts with city unions over the summer, said he doesn’t know whether other departments might come looking for the same pay.
“I don’t know if the DPW would come in and look at it,” Upton said. “It’s a little different for a detective who could be planning a day off at the beach with his family, and he’s packed up the gear and gets a call that they’ve got to come in for a domestic violence situation.
“That’s different than someone who works at DPW who might get a weather report the day before and might have to come in at 3 in the morning and start plowing. There is an argument that this is somewhat different, given the short notice.”
Aldenberg said he doesn’t know whether other department heads may follow his lead.
“I think we ask a lot of our city employees, particularly my detectives,” Aldenberg said. “We’re seeing a significant increase in significant events that require detectives to come in at 2 o’clock, 3 o’clock in the morning, from sex abuse cases on children to serious domestic violence, to the homicide we had the other day on South Willow at 3 in the afternoon. I honestly don’t see it as that big of an ask.”
Aldermen voted 3-2 to table the request until their next meeting, with Barry, Jim Burkush and Norm Gamache in favor. Aldermen Kevin Cavanaugh and Erin George-Kelly opposed tabling the item.
Barry requested more information on how often investigators are called back, to be given to the committee before its next meeting.
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In September, the VA awarded $137 million in grants to 150 nonprofits through its Supportive Services for Veteran Families program, which provides supportive and prevention services and rapid housing to veterans who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. The grants will allow nonprofits to expand their services for veterans and their families.
On Thursday, the VA announced it had three new funding opportunities for organizations to combat veteran homelessness, one is through its Supportive Services for Veteran Families program.
“We’re excited about this grant because it actually offers and includes some expanded services that we really think are going to be game-changers for us, and this includes providing more incentives that will encourage landlords to rent to veterans,” said Jill Albanese, director of clinical operations and senior adviser for the Veterans Health Administration’s homeless programs.
The other two grants are through the VA’s Grants and Per Diem program, which provides transitional housing services that supply immediate shelter and case management to help veterans become housing stable. The incentives will become available to organizations that receive the grants nationwide in fiscal 2024.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development estimated in January 2021 that 19,750 veterans in a single night experienced sheltered homelessness — veterans who live in shelters.
John Kuhn, national director of the Veteran Health Administration’s Supportive Services for Veteran Families program, said many of the veterans who the VA serve in the program have poor credit histories or committed crimes. This can lead landlords to reject rental applications and consider these veterans as a risk, according to the American Apartment Owners Association.
“We know in a very tight housing market that we have, we’re asking landlords to take chances on our veterans,” Kuhn told reporters Thursday.
A 2020 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau report found young, enlisted service members develop problems with debt or have credit score issues by the time they leave active duty. The report also found similar issues are more likely to emerge among veterans who served less than four years.
The Council on Criminal Justice released a report in August that found one-third of veterans reported having been arrested or booked into a jail at least once in their lives. The report also revealed 181,500 veterans were in prisons or jails in the United States.
“We’re asking landlords in an environment where they can rent to anyone to take a chance on our folks, so we have to compensate them for that risk,” Kuhn said.
The VA incentive allows organizations to pay rent up to two months to a landlord, but only if it is necessary to help a veteran remain or obtain permanent housing, and the veteran must be offered at least a one-year lease. The incentive also can be used with the VA’s Supportive Services for Veteran Families program or the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-VA Supportive Housing vouchers, which pairs HUD’s Housing Choice Voucher rental assistance with VA case management and supportive services for homeless veterans.
The tenant incentive, dubbed the General Housing Stability Assistance, funds bedding and basic kitchen supplies. However, the assistance leaves needs such as internet access unaddressed, according to the VA’s notice of funding availability on the Federal Register.
Organizations can expand the assistance and provide up to $1,000 to veterans and their families for their miscellaneous move-in expenses. The expenses include food, furniture, household items, or electronics, such as televisions. Additionally, internet or cable bills are now considered utilities.
Access to the internet is an essential component of the modern economy, comparable to utilities, according to the VA’s notice of funding availability.
“Veterans without such access are put at a disadvantage in finding and applying for work opportunities, purchasing needed consumer goods at the lowest possible cost and communicating through email and other forms of social media,” according to the announcement.
VA Secretary Denis McDonough said Tuesday that the VA has housed 30,914 veterans, 81% ahead of the agency’s goal, as of the end of September. In February, the VA announced its goal to place at least 38,000 veterans experiencing homelessness into permanent housing for 2022.
In early October, the VA published a notice of funding opportunity for about $11.3 million in legal services grants for veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness through the agency’s Legal Services for Veterans grant program.
This new grant will allow the VA to administer legal services to veterans who are homeless or at risk of being homeless and are facing legal issues that make it difficult to maintain housing.
“These grants will provide critical resources to help veterans and their families climb out of homelessness or prevent them from falling into homelessness in the first place,” McDonough said. “Every veteran deserves a good, stable, safe home in this country they fought to defend — and these grants are a key part of making that goal a reality.”
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The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester has acquired Judith Leyster’s 17th-century painting “Boy Holding Grapes and a Hat,” which was painted in about 1630.
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Manchester’s Currier Museum of Art has acquired a long-lost painting by 17th-century painter Judith Leyster, a pioneering Dutch artist.
Only recently rediscovered, Leyster’s “Boy Holding Grapes and a Hat” joins the permanent collection at the Ash Street museum.
“The Currier Museum owns powerful works of art by contemporary women, including Joan Mitchell, Marisol and Faith Ringgold, but this is the Currier’s first work by a woman painter from the 17th century,” said Alan Chong, the museum’s director.
Leyster was one of the most expressive and innovative painters of her time. She captured scenes of everyday life using quick brushwork to convey figures seemingly in motion. In “Boy Holding Grapes and a Hat,” the youth is caught in a laugh, his head tilting upwards.
According to the Currier, fewer than 20 works can be securely attributed to Leyster. Along with the Italian painter Artemisia Gentilleschi and the Dutch still-life artist Rachel Ruysch, Leyster was one of a handful of women to break the gender restrictions of her time, when Renaissance and Baroque eras were restricted to male artists.
The famed television comedian Red Skelton owned “Boy Holding Grapes and a Hat” in the 1950s, no doubt drawn to the boy’s lively and humorous expression.
The painting was given to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1955, but was sold in 1977.
The painting was out of sight for 40 years until it was discovered by noted Dutch dealer Salomon Lilian.
A few years after the portrait was completed, Leyster married the Dutch painter Jan Miense Molenaer. The Currier Museum already owns Molenaer’s 1635 painting “Card Players at an Inn.”
“Although Jan Molenaer was a talented painter of everyday life, his wife, Judith Leyster, was obviously superior at capturing the spontaneity of human behavior. We are proud that the Currier Museum can exhibit the works of a prominent artist couple side by side,” said Kurt Sundstrom, senior curator.
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Aaron Tolson, right, and Derick Grant, will unveil their latest collaboration, “What Is This Thing Called Love,” at the Dana Center at Saint Anselm College on Friday and Saturday. It’s a love letter to tap dance and the music of the 1950s.
Bedford tap sensation Aaron Tolson is producer of the new stage show “What Is This Thing Called Love,” which premieres Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Saint Anselm’s College.
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Granite State tap dancer and teacher Aaron Tolson last year released a children’s book called “Tiny Tap Shoes,” about a tap-dancing, winged fairy named Steve.
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Aaron Tolson has always been quick on his feet.
As a kid he was a tap-dancing prodigy on New York City’s famed Apollo Theatre stage.
As a student athlete at Manchester Memorial High School and then St. John’s University in Queens, N.Y., he set indoor and outdoor speed records on track teams.
Next he set the pace on national and international tours of the sensation “Riverdance,” playing Broadway and Radio City Music Hall in the process.
Along the way, Tolson has devoted much of his career to being an ambassador for tap around the world. He teaches at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee in Massachusetts and directs Speaking in Taps, a training ground for young dancers in New Hampshire.
His latest venture is a collaboration with longtime friend and dance collaborator Derick K. Grant. “What Is This Thing Called Love,” an ode to the 1950s and the birth of rock ‘n’ roll, premieres at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Dana Center for the Humanities at Saint Anselm College.
Still, when reached this past Monday, Tolson is moving in another now-familiar direction.
The Bedford resident is in dad mode, racing through the hallways of his daughters’ school and juggling a phone interview in a quick break between two classroom Halloween parties.
“My kids are 7 and 9. They still want dad to come to school, so if I can do it, I’ll do it,” he says determinedly, before joking about having zero free time.
But Tolson is excited and relieved finally to see the curtain rising on a new professional production, which features nine tap dancers, three vocalists and an 11-piece orchestra.
“I can’t even explain how wonderful this is,” Tolson says of unveiling the show in his home state. “My career has been about building platforms for amazing dancers to get that chance to tap dance.”
He says the past two years of pandemic-related slow-downs and two previously rescheduled shows were frustrating, but it gave them extra time to explore and hone the production, which he is producing and Grant is directing.
The pair have been working together for about 25 years. They first met as kids in 1988, when they auditioned in Boston for the movie “Taps” with Savion Glover, Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis Jr. They got the job and then later, met up at a high-profile cast reunion and performance.
“At 14 years old, he and I were dancing at the Apollo Theatre. It was one of those things that built a lifelong bridge. Of course, we didn’t know it then, but here we are all these years later, best of friends. He’s my oldest daughter’s godfather. He’s just a great, great person, never mind how talented he is,” Tolson says of Grant.
To get a sense of Grant’s place in the tap world, you need to go no further than the post office, Tolson says with a laugh.
“You know someone is a legend (in their field) when their face is on a stamp.”
Grant, who also teaches at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, was an original company member and dance captain for the blockbuster “Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk” on Broadway and its first national tour. He also created and choreographed “Imagine Tap!” — on which Tolson acted as associate choreographer, co-creator and associate producer.
In addition, both have been ambassadors for dance-wear company SoDanca.
“What Is This Thing Called Love,” featuring choreography by Grant and tap dancer Dormeshia, is a love note to tap and the rock ‘n’ roll era. It doesn’t have narration. The 1950s-era mix of yearning, joy and a flicker of heartbreak, is told through a soundtrack of classic tunes, including the swinging Bill Haley and the Comets hit “Rock Around the Clock” and Little Richard’s rollicking “Tutti Frutti,” and, of course, a stagefull of tap.
Tolson’s own soundtrack to tap took shape in the mid-1980s, about the time when “White Nights” stormed movie theaters. Dance greats Gregory Hines and Mikhail Baryshnikov starred in the political drama, making ballet and tap the coolest mix of art forms. (David Pack’s song “Prove Me Wrong” was the musical backdrop for the star dancers iconic studio number.)
“It led to a Renaissance of tap dance, with the leader being Gregory Hines,” Tolson says.
On and off stage, Hines was an engaging advocate, mentoring dancers and encouraging audiences to give tap another look.
“(Hines) is probably one of the biggest reasons — if not the biggest reason — I’m here today, tap dancing,” Tolson said.
The handful of times Tolson got to talk with or see Hines in action, “he was encouraging, helpful and supportive, and always made me feel like I was definitely somebody who should be tap dancing. He was paving the way for others.”
It’s part of the reason the 1990s ushered in a percussive explosion of tap, with “Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk” and “Tap Dogs” taking over stages, leading to revivals of “42nd Street.”
“I remember in the late 1990s, it was so easy to find a job tap dancing. It was just everywhere,” Tolson says.
But as those productions winded down, tap again took a back seat.
“The television shows kind of picked up on that, like ‘So You Think You Can Dance.’ The perception was that other styles of dance were more accessible and easier, that tap dancing was too hard and technical to pursue,” Tolson says.
That isn’t the case, contends Tolson, who also teaches at DanceWorks Movement Design in Milford. He hopes stage shows like “What Is This Thing Called Love” will help begin to put tap back into the forefront.
“I feel like my job has been to be a teacher, to be the person who can help more people do this art form,” he says. “I was performing and ended up turning into this teacher. I’ve been traveling the world since 2000, and more people are into tap dance now than ever before.”
That includes his two daughters.
“They both are actually strong tap dancers, and they both sing. If anything, they are on their way to being way better than their father,” Tolson says with a laugh.
He also penned the children’s book “Tiny Tap Shoes” (Pegasus Publishing), which is illustrated by Ani Chong and inspired by the bedtime stories Tolson would make up for his daughters. It’s about a relatable tap-dancing fairy named Steve.
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Rihanna returns to music with 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' single
By Sonia Rao The Washington Post
Rihanna made a grand return to music last Friday, releasing “Lift Me Up,” an original song for the “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” soundtrack that marks her first single as a lead artist in six years.
Co-written by Rihanna, singer-songwriter Tems, composer Ludwig Göransson and director Ryan Coogler, “Lift Me Up” was described in a news release as “a tribute to the extraordinary life and legacy of Chadwick Boseman,” the star of the first Black Panther film, who died of colon cancer two years ago.
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” explores how the fictional East African nation fares after the death of King T’Challa, Boseman’s character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. “Lift Me Up” resembles a lullaby, with Rihanna singing soulfully at a low tempo over the dreamy sounds of strings and light strumming. The single was released alongside an instrumental version of the track.
Though she has since collaborated with artists such as Kendrick Lamar, DJ Khaled and N.E.R.D., Rihanna last released solo music in 2016. Her single “Sledgehammer,” released in June of that year to promote the film “Star Trek Beyond,” landed roughly five months after “Anti,” her eighth studio album. The record ended up on numerous lists of the decade’s best music and earned her six Grammy nominations. (She has 33 total nominations to her name, including nine wins for both solo and collaborative work.)
Over the past several years, Rihanna has pivoted her attention to her Fenty Beauty and Savage X Fenty brands, both of which significantly contributed to Forbes naming her a billionaire last year.
She was worth $1.7 billion at the time, according to the magazine, which described her as the richest female musical artist in the world and the second-wealthiest woman in the entertainment industry after Oprah Winfrey.
So much time passed without Rihanna releasing solo music that even her most loyal fans began to joke that she would never put out her ninth album, deemed “R9.” For her part, Rihanna denied stepping away from the craft; in 2019, she told Vogue that music was “the weird language” that connected her to her fans.
“Me the designer, me the woman who creates makeup and lingerie — it all started with music,” she said in an interview for the magazine’s cover story. “It was my first pen pal-ship to the world. To cut that off is to cut my communication off. All of these other things flourish on top of that foundation.”
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Gatsas Stables star You’re My Girl, shown winning at Saratoga on Sept. 2, runs Friday in the Grade 1, $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies in Kentucky.
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Gatsas Stables’ ‘Girl’ sitting pretty for Breeders’ Cup
By Lynne Snierson Special to the Union Leader
Mike Gatsas is sweet on his girl.
You’re My Girl, his stellar two-year-old filly, has a date with the best of her age and gender in the $2 million, Grade 1 Juvenile Fillies race as part of the Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championships at Keeneland Racecourse in Lexington, Kentucky, this weekend.
“She’s a really nice filly. She’s special,” said the Manchester businessman who owns and breeds Thoroughbred racehorses under the banner of Gatsas Stables with his son, Matt.
You’re My Girl, whom he purchased in June at auction with partners Randy Hill and the owners of Hidden Brook Farm in Kentucky, will line up in the starting gate as part of the full field of 14 who qualified for the race. It is one of 14 Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup events contested Friday and Saturday featuring the best international horses in each division.
The New York-bred You’re My Girl, who is trained by John Terranova and will be ridden by Hall of Famer John Velazquez, made her debut at Saratoga Race Course on Sept. 2 and it was a celebratory coming-out party. She won the 6-furlongs test by a stunning 14½ lengths.
“She’s spectacular. After we bought her last summer I was at Saratoga and watched her breeze (a timed workout on the track) and said, ‘Wow.’ My whole family was up there and we all loved her.
“She breezed again the day Ted (Gatsas, Mike’s brother and Matt’s uncle) was there. He turned and looked at me and gave me that look, and I said, “I told you.” He said, ‘You were right. She’s the real deal.’ She’s proved that. She’s a good one.”
The filly was so impressive in her first race that Terranova next stepped her all the way up from a maiden race into Grade 1 stakes company against more experienced 2-year-old fillies in the one-mile Frizette stakes at the Belmont at the Big A meet in New York on Oct. 2. Despite the Aqueduct racing strip being sloppy due to heavy rain and having to break from a disadvantageous post position, she set the tempo in the Frizette and battled willingly on the inside when confronted by Chocolate Gelato in the stretch drive, finishing one length behind the post-time favorite.
That performance gave her connections the confidence to enter her for a rematch with Chocolate Gelato in the Breeders’ Cup, and to pay the required $100,000 supplemental fee as she was not nominated as a foal. Chocolate Gelato is the lukewarm 7-2 morning line favorite in a wide-open race.
You’re My Girl is 12-1 in the early line, but she has been in training for the Juvenile Fillies at Keeneland since Oct. 18 and has been lighting it up in her morning workouts. Gatsas thinks she’ll outrun those odds.
“She put in her last work (Oct. 29) and did it nicely with Johnny (Velazquez) on her, so we’ll see what happens,” said Gatsas, who has run graded stakes winners Gander, Shadow Caster and Negligee in a combined four previous Breeders’ Cups. “We’re hoping for the best.”
No one knows better than Gatsas that the ups and downs in this sport are very steep and extremely deep.
Two years ago, he and Randy Hill co-owned Vekoma, who ironically is named for a Dutch roller coaster manufacturer. The multiple G1 winner and the best horse Gatsas has owned throughout four decades in racing was the early favorite for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint and the leading candidate for the champion Male Sprinter of the Year.
But after traveling from New York to Kentucky, he developed shipping fever a few days before the race and was withdrawn. He was immediately retired from racing to become a stallion at the iconic Spendthrift Farm, which had earlier purchased his breeding rights.
“When he had to be scratched, it was so heartbreaking that I didn’t think I was going to get out of the funk. I think about it all the time. He was doing so good. So good. I really think he would have demolished that field that day. He would have been the champion Sprinter of the Year, plus everything that comes with winning the Breeders’ Cup,” said Gatsas. “But it wasn’t meant to be.”
Now the racing gods have given Gatsas Stables another shot at Breeders’ Cup glory.
“They owe me one, and hopefully, I get it this time. I keep on saying if I couldn’t have that one, they owe me two,” said Gatsas, who was planning to head to Kentucky yesterday.
You’re My Girl, a daughter of Overanalyze and the Indian Charlie mare Peace Queen, has never traveled the 1 1/16 miles distance of the Juvenile Fillies or had to negotiate a two-turn race. Nor has she ever faced a field this salty.
“She’s bred for the distance and to go two turns. She’s got the mind to do it, and the talent. She’s got the speed, so she can get into the race. You can’t teach speed,” said Gatsas. “We’re really excited about her. No matter what happens, she’ll race next year as a three-year-old. I think she’ll be a fun filly to have around.”
Post time for the Grade 1, $2 million Juvenile Fillies is 3:40 p.m. on Friday and can be seen live on USA Network, NBCSports.com, the NBC Sports App, and FanDuel TV (formerly TVG).
NBC Sports’ coverage of the entire 2022 Breeders’ Cup starts with Future Stars Friday from 2-6 p.m. (USA Network) and continues with Championship Saturday on Saturday from 1-6 p.m. (NBCSN until 3:30 p.m., NBC from 3:30-6 p.m.). The races are also being shown on FanDuel TV.
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Ryan Newman looks on during practice before a Cup Series race several years ago.
Life after the NASCAR Cup Series has been good to Ryan Newman.
RYAN NEWMAN’S summer of 2022 was his first away from the NASCAR Cup Series since 2001. He wasn’t offered a competitive ride for this season and he chose to sit out, running a limited schedule of races outside of NASCAR’s highest level of racing.
The Indiana native filled out his summer spending valuable time with daughters Brooklyn and Ashlyn. He says that time spent was the best part of his summer, which still included time at a race track, with Brooklyn competing in Kart races near their North Carolina home.
Newman will never forget New Hampshire. After all, it was the site of his first NASCAR Cup Series win, back in September of 2002. His 22-year NASCAR career, which unofficially ended last November, included 725 Cup Series races in all. That New Hampshire win came during his first full season at the highest level of NASCAR. It was a day he still remembers fondly.
“I actually went back and watched it about a week-and-a-half ago on YouTube,” Newman admitted. “It was pretty special. I’ve always said Loudon was the birthplace of track position racing. It still is. We talk about it at every other race track now.
“That was a high-pressure day. Rain shortened. I had Kurt Busch breathing down my back as I was trying to lap Sterling Marlin, the points leader. I had very little brake pedal. There was a lot going on.”
Newman was at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway last week, competing in the season finale for the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, proving that he still wants to compete in the Cup Series if given the opportunity. Newman didn’t rule out running some Cup Series races next year if given the opportunity, but he is concerned about the safety of the new cars.
Newman earned an engineering degree at Purdue University, and he had been a leader in safety innovation ideas for the Cup cars. He has mixed feelings about not being able to race, and the safety aspect of the new Cup Series cars that debuted this season. As a driver who very well could have lost his life in a terrible crash at Daytona International Speedway in 2020, safety has always been part of the deal for Newman, 44.
“In a roundabout way, it’s bittersweet because I’m not retired, but I have sat back and watched a lot of it,” he said. “Sometimes I’ve chuckled and sometimes I have missed it. More often than not, I would say I’ve chuckled. It’s a unique situation that the sport is in and I don’t think it’s all for good reasons.
“Ultimately there’s parts of it that I extremely miss and parts that I’m extremely happy that I am avoiding. I would still come and run, short tracks especially, but I said before the season got started that I thought there was a condition with the car that was going to make it not as safe and I think I have proved myself correct.”
Newman raced this season in the SRX Series, a six-race schedule at various short tracks across the country, featuring mostly past champion drivers. He has also competed in at least three pavement Modified races this season, including at Martinsville this week. He hopes to be back on the SRX Series next year, along with running some Modified races, including the July event at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
“If I get the opportunity to get back to Loudon and it makes sense, absolutely,” he said of his chances to return to New Hampshire in a Modified. “I love the Modifieds. They’re a whole lot of fun to drive, and great competition. You see Bobby Labonte, Corey Lajoie and myself here for a reason. It’s not because it’s paying a lot.”
Lajoie winsLajoie celebrated victory in last Thursday’s Modified event, after contact from his front bumper sent Chelmsford, Mass.’ Jon McKennedy spinning out of the race lead, and Lajoie was able to capitalize on a wild green-white-checker finish to get the coveted grandfather clock trophy that a Martinsville win provides.
McKennedy, who learned to race at southern New Hampshire tracks Lee, Star, Hudson and Monadnock, still was able to finish 12th — good enough to earn the 2022 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour championship. Bobby Santos, who began his career at the age of 13 in a 350 Supermodified at Star, finished fourth.
Newman proved last week at Martinsville that he can still get the job done, coming from the rear of a 35-car field after he was spun out entering turn one on lap 49. He recovered to finish the 200-lap race in third place.
Before the event, the 2023 NWMT schedule was unveiled, featuring five races scheduled to take place across the state, with two at Monadnock in Winchester and one each in Loudon, Lee and Claremont. The Lee and Claremont dates are listed as TBA, but we have confirmed those two events are scheduled for May 27 and July 29.
Kevin Rice writes about racing for the Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News. Contact him at RiceonRacing@gmail.com
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To the Editor: Getting the relative handful of write-in votes in the primary that it takes to put your name on the ballot doesn’t mean that a libertarian/Free Stater like Nicholas Sarawak has anything to do with the values New Hampshire Democrats are fighting to defend. Sarawak is challenging Republican incumbent Hillsborough County Attorney John Coughlin.
My advice to anyone — Republican or Democrat — for Tuesday, November 8, is don’t vote for either candidate for this office. Too bad “None of the above” isn’t an available alternative.
LEN STUART
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To the Editor: As the general election gets nearer, I see more reports of delays expected on election night. I understand this to be largely because of a new law making sure votes are counted by hand if there’s an issue with the machines, but also because of some fringe groups claiming without evidence that the vote could be fraudulent.
New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan and Attorney General John Formella need to take action. I’m fine with having to wait longer for our results, but I want to know that every eligible vote has been counted and that they’re correct. I don’t want there to be any room for conspiracy theorists to be able to twist a delay into something nefarious. The AG and secretary must be clear about what’s happening now, and what my neighbors and I should expect on election night.
RICK SHAGOURY
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Maurice Regan
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE House of Representatives is, per capita, one of the largest legislative bodies in the world. My town of Pembroke has a population of more than 7,000 and has two representatives. If this were the ratio at the federal level, there would be more than 90,000 members of Congress, larger than the approximate size of the mob that headed to the Capital on January 6. So Granite State voters are well represented in Concord.
The job of state representative pays $100 per year for committee work in the morning and debate and voting in the afternoon two days each session week. Candidates for office are urged to “canvass” their districts, knocking on doors, urging residents to vote. This is considered the best method to get votes and win state representative elections. Given the ratio of voters to representatives, this should be easy, inexpensive, and effective.
That is exactly what I did in 1992. I knocked on the doors of my district and tried to meet with nearly every potential constituent. Unfortunately, I lost the election to a candidate who died just days before the election. In New Hampshire, if dead, you can be elected but you cannot be sworn into office. In a subsequent special election months later, my opponent was alive and I was elected, serving one term.
Fast forward to this midterm election. The advice is still the same, knock on doors, but there are differences. In 1992, I walked my district with a voter checklist, an 8.5-by-11 paper handout, and often with my daughter in a running stroller. My campaign fund had approximately $100, half of which was out-of-state money, contributed by my brother in Minnesota. In 2022, I walk the streets of my district with voter software on my iPad knocking on doors the algorithm says I should approach. The handout is now a “palm card” that can double as a postcard. My campaign fund has increased six fold. My daughter, now 33, is nowhere to be found.
But canvassing has other differences. In 1992, I only recalled one rude voter, who apparently mistook the presence of my daughter as a sign that I was a member of a religious group, not something worse, a politician. Now I estimate that approximately 4% of voters I actually meet fit that definition. Please note, these are voters I actually meet. Let me explain.
The software directs me to doors of registered voters, voters of both parties that, by their voting history, might vote for me. I walk past many houses, left to imagine if these are citizens who do not vote or are unlikely to vote for me. I suspect both are true given both the relatively low level of voter registration and I have never been directed to a house with a “Let’s Go Brandon” sign or a Confederate flag on the lawn. And if half of the doors I knock open, that is a very good day.
But the rude can be easily classified as the Karens and Kens. Entitled with their “alternative facts,” they are often loud, dismissive, and disinterested in any common ground. But for every rude voter, far more are interested. “What about women’s reproductive rights?” “What is your position on the police?” “What do you mean by ‘supporting democracy?’” That last one is where I try to find common ground with the voter and most of the time we do find it, regardless of party affiliation.
Along the way, I find candidate literature on porches or hanging on door knobs. This is often the detritus of the “professional canvasser,” employed by candidates who thereby avoid contact with the voters they wish to represent.
Far be it from me to endorse a candidate, even me. But voters for state representative might consider a candidate who came to their door, left them a note, or sent them a handwritten postcard. Maybe these candidates will represent them well?
Maurice Regan of Pembroke is a Democrat candidate for state representative in Merrimack District 12.
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I’VE SPENT this past year on the campaign trail running for governor. From Colebrook to Rindge to Gilford to Hampton to Franconia to Pelham and everywhere else in between, I met thousands of Granite Staters. I’ve been inspired, concerned, and motivated into action by their stories, and it has truly been the best and most thrilling year of my life.
Along the trail, I spent more time with other candidates than my family, and had the best seat in the house when it came to their best and worst moments. Above everyone else, one candidate has stood out in the crowd — U.S. Senate candidate and retired Brigadier General Donald Bolduc.
As I listened to Don, I saw that he understands the problems Granite Staters face, and, frankly speaking, the problems Sen. Maggie Hassan has helped create. From our record-high inflation, to working to shut down America’s energy output and creating an energy crisis, to the indoctrination of our kids in our public schools. Hassan’s last six years in D.C. are some of the hardest years you and I have faced.
Because of Senator Hassan, our communities are more broke and more divided, and families are suffering.
While career politicians are killing our economy, suddenly we are at the start of what may go down as the worst drug epidemic in our history — fentanyl. As Senator Hassan promoted open borders, cartels jumped at their new opportunity to relentlessly slam fentanyl into our cities and towns. In the last year, New Hampshire police have seized enough fentanyl to kill 12 million people, nearly 10 times the population of New Hampshire. Read that again.
In the meantime, Maggie Hassan played a colossal role in the indoctrination of our children in what was once the crowned jewel of New Hampshire, our public schools. Parents have removed more than 10,000 students from these schools, yet your property taxes still go up. Critical race theory (CRT) is still being taught, and gender transition conversations are happening between students and adults without parents ever being involved.
These are all issues where Senator Hassan stands in lockstep with President Joe Biden. Our country is in the worst shape it has been in my lifetime.
Unlike any moment before in our lives, D.C. is a train wreck, but can you imagine what another six years of a career politician like Maggie Hassan will bring us? You and I will suffer an even worse economy. Inflation will reach new record highs unlike any we could have imagined. There will be the complete destruction of our energy reserves, with no new output. Can you imagine the cost of gas and fuel?
And without a doubt, there will be an even bigger divide in our communities because of the ongoing indoctrination of children in public schools.
We need an outsider, a new kind of leader who isn’t bought by lobbyists and deeply cares about the individuals and the families of New Hampshire. We deserve a person with a career of true service to our country, a humble leader whose life has exhibited great strength of personal character. We need a U.S. senator who works for us, and for our future.
Our world has changed, and not for the better. If anyone tried to tell us a decade ago what was going to happen in the six years Maggie Hassan has been in office, you and I wouldn’t have believed them. This is precisely why this is the election where we must make a change.
I don’t believe in politicians, but I do believe in Don Bolduc. And I believe he is our only chance to fix the problems you and I are facing today. On November 8th, do the right thing for New Hampshire and vote for General Donald Bolduc to be your next U.S. senator.
Thad Riley of Brentwood was a recent Republican primary candidate for governor.
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Wednesday morning, Amesbury (Massachusetts) High announced the hiring of former U.S. Senator Scott Brown as its new girls basketball coach. The 63-year-old Brown replaces Gregg Dollas, who stepped down in April after compiling a 68-15 record over four seasons while leading the program to its first ever state championship last winter.
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By Jonathan Lee The Washington Post
"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II," the latest tentpole release in the popular video game franchise, uses real world locales as inspiration for some of its multiplayer battlegrounds. Infinity Ward, the game's developer, created maps featuring settings resembling Los Angeles' Getty Museum, Singapore's Marina Bay Street Circuit racetrack and Amsterdam's Conservatorium Hotel. Now, the Conservatorium is considering legal action against Activision Blizzard for unwanted exposure. The map based on the Getty has vanished from the game.
Valderas Museum, a map that closely resembles the J. Paul Getty Museum, was playable during "Modern Warfare II's" beta but did not appear in the game's official release. Some fans have speculated that Activision cut the map due to negative feedback; beta players criticized it for being too large for most multiplayer modes, leaving little cover for players to hide behind from snipers and campers. Activision Blizzard, the game's publisher, has not given a reason for its removal. Activision did not reply go a request for comment in time for publication.
Other fans speculated that Valderas Museum was removed from the game due to its similarity to the Getty. In response to an inquiry from The Washington Post, Lisa Lapin, vice president of communications at the J. Paul Getty Trust, wrote: "Unfortunately, we are unable to comment at this time."
While it's not known whether the Getty took issue with its portrayal in "Modern Warfare II," the Conservatorium Hotel, a five-star hotel in Amsterdam's prestigious Museum Quarter, has taken a public stance against its appearance in the game. One of the game's multiplayer maps is Breenbergh Hotel, which seems to be based off the Conservatorium. According to the Dutch newspaper de Volksrant, the Conservatorium has been considering legal action against Activision Blizzard since it never consented to being put in the game.
"We have taken note of the fact that the Conservatorium Hotel is undesirably the scene of the new 'Call of Duty,' " said Conservatorium manager Roy Tomassen to de Volksrant. "More generally, we don't support games that seem to encourage the use of violence. The game in no way reflects our core values and we regret our apparent and unwanted involvement."
Breenbergh Hotel is still in the game's active map rotation.
Back in August, Activision revealed a first look at a map called Marina Bay Grand Prix during the 2022 Call of Duty League Championship. It was seemingly modeled after the Marina Bay Street Circuit, a racetrack in Singapore that hosts Formula One's Singapore Grand Prix. In a now-deleted tweet, Activision said that the map would be playable in the "Modern Warfare II" beta. But as the beta date drew closer, Activision retroactively removed all mentions of the map from its official channels without comment.
The map returned in "Modern Warfare II's" official release but was renamed Crown Raceway, with the signage and other assets in the map reflecting the change. The map's location was also changed from Singapore to the broader "Southeast Asia." Neither Activision nor Formula One released statements about the change, but fans have suspected that it was due to a conflict around associating Singapore's famed racetrack with gun violence.
Copyright laws surrounding the use of buildings in art are complicated. Many (but not all) famous structures, such as the White House, are safe to use; Generally speaking, private buildings made before 1990 are not protected by copyright. But litigation against game companies using real buildings and places as inspiration is not unprecedented. In 2008, Rockstar Games was sued by ESS Entertainment for its depiction of a gentleman's club in "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas." ESS, the operator of the real Los Angeles establishment Play Pen Gentlemen's Club, alleged that Rockstar infringed upon its trademark with its virtual club, Pig Pen. The court ruled in favor of Rockstar.
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FILE PHOTO: Paul Pelosi, husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, poses for photographers as he arrives for the formal Artist's Dinner honoring the recipients of the 44th Annual Kennedy Center Honors at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 4, 2021.
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By Maria Sacchetti The Washington Post
"We must, with one overwhelming unified voice, speak as a country and say there's no place, no place for voter intimidation or political violence in America, whether it's directed at Democrats or Republicans," Biden said. "No place, period. No place, ever."
The Washington Post's Holly Bailey, Aaron C. Davis and Dalton Bennett contributed to this report.
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The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, a federal courthouse in downtown Boston, pictured on Oct. 12, 2022.
A Lowell, Massachusetts, postal worker admitted Tuesday to attempting to bribe a postal supervisor and to selling them cocaine, United States Attorney Rachael S. Rollins’s office said.
John Noviello, of Nashua, 61, pleaded guilty to one count of bribery of a public official and one count of distribution of cocaine. Noviello was charged on May 11, 2022.
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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) at a discussion with officials at Colonial Forge High School in Stafford, Va., on Sept. 1.
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By Laura Vozzella and Nate Jones The Washington Post
"All my teacher wants to talk about is how the book is sexist because it portrays the warriors as men and not women," the student wrote Jan. 30 to the teacher tip line that Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) had just set up to banish "divisive concepts" from public education. "I believe my teacher is in violation of Governor Youngkin's Executive Order which prohibits the teaching of 'divisive topics.' "
The student's email was one of 350 that the Youngkin administration released this week to settle a lawsuit that The Washington Post and a dozen other media outlets brought in April, after the governor refused to release tip-line submissions under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
The 350 emails - many of them duplicates - are thought to represent a small fraction of the tips, although the total number submitted remains under wraps. Youngkin's office referred a question about the total to Attorney General Jason S. Miyares (R), who represented the state in the lawsuit. Miyares spokeswoman Victoria LaCivita declined to comment.
Youngkin claimed that the tip-line submissions fall under a FOIA exemption for a governor's "working papers and correspondence." Under the terms of the settlement, his administration released only those tips that were also sent or forwarded to a Virginia Department of Education email address.
Filed in Richmond Circuit Court by a media coalition that included the Associated Press, Tribune Publishing and NPR, the lawsuit contended that exemptions for working papers and correspondence did not apply to the tip line submissions - in part because, according to the suit, the submissions were shared with individuals outside of the governor's office, including the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank.
"We are pleased that the attorney general's settlement with the representatives of several media outlets preserves the principle that a constituent's communication with a Governor is protected under the law and exempt from FOIA," Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter said in a statement. "The Governor wants constituents to be able to reach out to him without fear that their communications will not be kept confidential."
Shortly after taking office in January, Youngkin announced that parents should report teachers who discuss "divisive" concepts in the classroom by emailing helpeducation@governor.virginia.gov.
"We're asking for folks to send us reports and observations," Youngkin said in a radio interview around the same time. "Help us be aware of . . . their child being denied their rights that parents have in Virginia, and we're going to make sure we catalogue it all. . . . And that gives us further, further ability to make sure we're rooting it out."
Critics called the initiative an attempt to intimidate teachers and suggested flooding the tip line with tongue-in-cheek complaints, such as the sarcastically dire warning that Virginia schools were teaching "Arabic numerals."
None of the tips released this week took on that tone, although one woman used the tip line to draw the governor's attention to standout physical education teachers around the state. She'd send a copy to the teachers as well.
"I know the tip line was not designed for compliments, but I have used it this way the past 34 days while recovering [from] hip and back surgery," Sheila J. Jones, who is on medical leave from her job as coordinator of K-12 health and physical education for Virginia Beach schools, wrote to one Loudoun school official. "Responses [from teachers] range from 'you made my day/my morale has been low and this picked me up' to 'you made me cry happy tears.' "
None of the tips - she sent 35 in as many days - generated a response from the administration, "not even an auto-reply," Jones wrote in an email to The Post on Wednesday. But some fellow educators applauded her approach.
"I love that you are using the 'tip line' for this purpose," Ashley F. Ellis, Loudoun's deputy superintendent, wrote back in an email included in those released by the state. "We've received a couple of emails from parents who have 'reported' the wonderful things their teachers have done to help their students. I hope those emails don't go unread. It's really hard to be an educator in Virginia right now, so anything we can do to celebrate our teachers is important."
Many of the tips released this week reflect the K-12 culture wars that were central to Youngkin's closing argument in last year's campaign, when he criticized Democrats for extended school closures and mask mandates amid the coronavirus pandemic and accused school authorities of trying to "indoctrinate" students on matters of race.
One parent complained about a reading assignment that was "sympathetic" to immigrants. Another raised alarm about free online tutoring offered by a local school district, seeing it as "a potential path for unknown perverts" to prey on students. Some voiced concern that the concept of "gender identity" was included in the family life curriculum.
A Spotsylvania mother called for seven books to be pulled from school libraries, writing: "These books are, in my opinion, making children desensitized to healthy sexual relationships and are grooming in nature."
Several parents were upset that certain schools were requiring masks early this year, at a time when the courts were still sorting out if Youngkin's executive order attempting to ban mask mandates was legal. (The General Assembly eventually passed a law giving parents the right to opt their children out of school mask mandates.)
In most cases, the sender's name was redacted. Yet that was not the case for the dozens of emails from Kandise Lucas, a disabilities advocate representing families of special education students embroiled in a variety of disputes with local school districts.
Lucas - no relation to state Sen. L. Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth), one of Youngkin's sharpest critics in the legislature - referenced the governor's campaign rhetoric in some of her emails. In March, for instance, as she sent the tip line information about a family who had been denied their student's scholastic records, concluding with, "when will Parents Matter?"
In an interview, Lucas said the administration did not respond to any of her "tips" - a disappointment, she said, because at the request of Youngkin's campaign, she hosted a town hall meeting on special education at a Chesterfield church with first lady Suzanne Youngkin ahead of last year's election. (Youngkin's office could not immediately confirm the town hall event.)
"We were told the money was going to follow the child, parents matter," said Lucas, a political independent who voted for Youngkin. "I thought they were listening."
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A rendering of the REI Co-op store to open at Market and Main in Bedford.
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REI Co-op is the first store to formally announce it will open at the newest phase of Market and Main in Bedford.
The 22,000-square-foot specialty outdoor retailer expects to open at 125 S. River Road next fall. The name stands for Recreational Equipment, Inc.
The store will feature a full-service bike shop staffed by certified mechanics and a ski and snowboard shop with professional tuning, waxing and repairs, according to a news release. In addition to discounts at the bike and ski shop, REI Co-op members receive unlimited free machine waxes and free flat-tire repair (labor only).
Right now, Market and Main is home to Trader Joe’s, Friendly Toast and a Carrabba’s Italian Grill that pre-dates the development, which was a former Macy’s.
REI shoppers can order online and pick up at the store. Curbside pickup also will be available.
REI has 78,900 members in New Hampshire, including 3,400 members in Bedford and Manchester. You don’t need to be a member to make purchases at REI, but members get dividends on their purchases.
The new store will also offer programs and gear rentals.
In 2019, REI opened its first New Hampshire location in North Conway at the Settlers Green shopping center. Since then, REI has donated $24,000 in New Hampshire to Granite Outdoor Alliance, Mount Washington Valley Adaptive Sports and Mount Washington Valley Trails Association.
The closest store to Bedford presently is in Reading, Massachusetts, about 43 miles away.
REI, headquartered near Seattle, has 178 locations in 42 states and the District of Columbia. The company expects to hire approximately 50 employees in Bedford.
Construction starts on next phase of Market and Main in Bedford
Six years after first being proposed, construction crews have started work on the second phase of Market and Main Development in Bedford, whic…
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An REI spokesman said plans for a store in Bedford, which was supposed to open later this year, are on hold.
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Braeden Baker
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Hudson boy, 13, reported missing
Police in Hudson are asking for the public’s help to find a 13-year-old boy who has been missing since Wednesday evening.
Braeden Baker is described as thin, 5-foot-3-inches to 5-foot-5-inches tall, weighing 80 to 90 pounds, with brown eyes and brown hair parted down the middle. He wears black-rimmed glasses and has braces.
The boy was last seen in the Pinewood Road area of Hudson around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, riding a large white electric scooter. He was wearing dark green sweatpants and a maroon sweatshirt, and may have had a red backpack.
Hudson police are asking anyone with information on the boy’s whereabouts to call them at 603-886-6011.
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By Suzanne Enzerink Special To The Washington Post
In a recent speech to the Volvo Group Operations Facility in Hagerstown, Md., President Biden invoked the phrase "Made in America." He was situating U.S. manufacturing as the foundation for the American middle class. According to the phrase's logic, to support the nation, one should buy goods that are "Made in America" by American workers.
The phrase reminded the audience that this label, which helps U.S. consumers recognize when they are purchasing a U.S.-made product, is at the core of Biden's economic policy. Leaders have historically invoked "Made in America" as a motto and aspiration defining American economic life, along with introducing protectionist measures, in times of economic crises or other profound changes. This commitment has been reiterated by politicians across the partisan aisle. Buying American has been seen as an imperative for preserving American jobs, strengthening the economy and even protecting national security.
While it is tempting to view the phrase as an appeal to patriotism and a celebration of the U.S. working class, xenophobia and anti-immigrant fervor have been central themes in its assertion, and in efforts to label American-made goods, for well over a century.
For example, in 1870s California, as Chinese immigration increased, trade unions feared the competition of "mass-produced" versions of their products by cheap Chinese labor. Racist fears of demographic change, fused with economic anxiety about changing manufacturing practices, led to initiatives to physically mark the origin of products. In 1874, cigar makers and shoemakers in San Francisco introduced "white labor" labels, encouraging consumers to purchase products made by White, often unionized workers over those made by non-unionized Chinese workers.
The objective to "create a demand for white men's cigars" - much like "Made in the U.S.A." labels today - preyed on social sentiment to influence purchasing habits. Such labels were an articulation of an exclusionary vision of identity and a precursor to racist immigration restrictions. Whiteness was central to how the United States imagined itself, as evidenced by the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, a blatantly racist piece of legislation that banned emigration from China under the guise of eliminating labor competition. Furthermore, a thriving economy was seen as crucial to the restoration of a strong nation after the Civil War and to pay off the public debt accrued by the war.
At the national level, the United States therefore maintained relatively high import tariffs, a dual measure intended to raise revenue and protect the recovering economy from foreign competition in manufacturing. By the 1880s, the tariffs generated a tremendous surplus, and American manufacturing boomed due to its home advantage.
In 1890, Republican Sen. William McKinley shepherded into law a tariff bill that not only imposed massive import duties on foreign wares, but also introduced the requirement that foreign goods be clearly marked with their country of origin. While domestic goods did not require a label, over the next decades it became increasingly common practice to use "Made in the U.S.A." labels as a compelling selling point. With manufacturing booming and few concerns about protectionism, such labeling became a tool for marketing.
During the Great Depression, with unemployment close to 25 percent and the American manufacturing sector in tatters - manufacturing contracted over 30 percent from 1929-33 - protectionism became paramount again.
The entire 1932 election was defined by the question of "America First," as magazine editor William Randolph Hearst printed on his newspapers' headers. For Hearst, "America First" meant a nationalist, inward-looking commitment to the nation.
Even though Hearst's preferred candidate lost, the protectionist commitment that he endorsed was not off the table. On his last day in office in 1933, Republican President Herbert Hoover signed the "Buy American Act (BAA)," into law in response to the crisis in manufacturing. It echoed similar efforts by rival foreign competitors like the United Kingdom, which had launched a "Buy British" campaign and "Made in England" products to weather the global economic storm.
The BAA was a comprehensive piece of legislation and still serves as a blueprint for protectionist legislation today. It mandated that all public projects use U.S.-based resources and goods, themselves to be made from "substantially all" U.S. materials, where possible. The construction of the Hoover Dam between 1931 and 1936 became one of the first large infrastructure projects constructed under these new rules.
But as the century went on, integrated production processes meant that components were increasingly produced in a variety of countries, even if the final product was assembled in the United States. As business historian Geoffrey Jones notes, labels such as "Made in America" were "becoming meaningless." In a booming economy with ample jobs in the decades after World War II, the urgency of policing product origin seemed less-pronounced.
The slogan returned again in the 1980s, a time when U.S. manufacturing was in decline as capital fled in search of less organized, cheaper labor. Multinational companies and outsourcing made production processes increasingly unbounded by the nation. "Made in America" emerged once again. Business leaders used the label to buoy sales, increase profits and to squelch labor unrest at home. But a label alone did not prevent factories from moving overseas. Economic nationalist policy was thus married with - and to an extent served to obscure - policies that helped erode the working class.
With manufacturing jobs shrinking, it was appealing to blame foreign workers to deflect blame. For example, casino owner Donald Trump took out a full-page newspaper advertisement in 1987 to advocate for tariffs and condemn countries such as Japan and Saudi Arabia as "ripping us off." Even labor unions readily wielded "Buy American" strategies, blaming Japan - especially its automotive industry - for the erosion of the working class.
The phrase has reappeared again since the Great Recession. In January 2011, for example, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wrote to the Smithsonian to condemn the sale of Chinese-made presidential busts at the National Museum of American History's gift store. Sanders called it "extraordinary" and "pathetic" that a museum celebrating U.S. history would sell goods made in China and Nicaragua, noting the irony of the museum not being able to "find companies in this country employing American workers that are able to manufacture statues of our Founding Fathers, or our current president." For Sanders, like so many others, reviving the middle class started with the manufacturing sector, with "Made in America"-labeled products at the heart of this mission.
President Donald Trump also touted economic nationalism when he invoked the phrase. In 2017, Trump proclaimed the first "Made in America" week, devised to "end the theft of American prosperity" and "crack down on foreign countries that cheat" through a comprehensive endorsement of U.S. manufacturing and tariffs on foreign goods. His derision of international competitors inaugurated a trade war with China, but his endorsement of U.S.-made goods seemed to affirm that he was an authentic champion of the White working class.
While in office, Trump signed numerous laws and enacted no less than 10 executive orders to back up his campaign promise to "buy American and hire American." Once again, however, this invocation of economic nationalism depended on the vilification of non-White labor, in part to distract attention from inequalities at home.
The "Made in America" label and its meanings remain ambiguous. The Federal Trade Commission's standard for "Made in the U.S.A." specifies that "all or virtually all" of a product must be made in the United States to qualify. This cedes wiggle room to manufacturers to incorporate foreign elements or technology. Nevertheless, the label wields a powerful sway. Research shows that consumers, especially those who identify as Republican, are willing to pay more for products that carry the label to "support U.S. companies and workers."
"Made in America" has become a cultural touchstone for U.S. global dominance. More than a reality, it has become a powerful political idea and a ready shorthand to gesture at U.S. power and economic prowess. Biden's embrace of the slogan is merely the next chapter in a long history of mediating U.S. power through its goods.
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By Adela Suliman The Washington Post
The details of the settlement have not been made public, but jury selection for a civil trial presided over by Bronx Judge Doris Gonzalez had been underway, according to court documents.
In a brief, joint statement announcing the settlement, Trump and the protesters said, "The parties all agree that the plaintiffs in the action, and all people, have a right to engage in peaceful protest on public sidewalks."
The suit was brought by five New Yorkers of Mexican descent, led by Efrain Galicia, who alleged that Trump's bodyguards engaged in a scuffle with them as they demonstrated outside the building on Sept. 3, 2015, over anti-Mexican comments Trump made during his presidential campaign.
The case sought punitive damages after alleging that Trump bodyguard Keith Schiller and others punched one of the men in the head while trying to grab a sign that read, "Make America Racist Again!" Schiller has previously said that he was simply trying to make space on the sidewalk and that he struck the protester only after the man grabbed him from behind.
"Plaintiffs are proud to have settled their claims and to have obtained written recognition by Donald Trump of their right to protest on the public sidewalk," their attorney, Benjamin Dictor, told The Washington Post in a statement Thursday.
"Powerful men may put their names on buildings, but the sidewalk will always belong to the people," Dictor added.
Trump was a defendant in the suit, being named along with the Trump Organization, his presidential campaign and several security people, according to court documents.
In 2019, Gonzalez said Trump's testimony was "indispensable" to the trial and ordered the then-president to sit for videotaped testimony. In a 2021 deposition transcript, Trump said Schiller "did nothing wrong," and, when asked about details of the fray, Trump said he "didn't know about it."
Trump lawyer Alina Habba said in a statement, "Although we were eager to proceed to trial to demonstrate the frivolousness of this case, the parties were ultimately able to come to an amicable resolution. We are very pleased with this outcome and are happy to finally put this matter to rest once and for all."
The former president is involved in a handful of other legal cases, including over government documents found at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida and allegations that he tried to interfere with Georgia's electoral count in 2020. He also faces investigations tied to the role he played ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
In May, the Trump Organization and presidential inaugural committee agreed to pay D.C. $750,000 to settle a lawsuit the city had filed, alleging that the organizations had misused nonprofit funds to benefit the former president and his family.
Separately, his namesake organization, including its payroll-processing subsidiary, the Trump Payroll Corporation, is on trial in New York Supreme Court on charges of an alleged scheme to defraud, conspiracy, criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records.
Trump and three of his adult children who have served as executives at the company have not been charged personally. The criminal trial began last week and could last up to six weeks.
The Washington Post's Shayna Jacobs in New York contributed to this report.
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The galindoi variation of Psilocybe mexicana mushrooms.
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By Leo Sands The Washington Post
Adults with depression who were administered a single 25-miligram dose of psilocybin were more likely to experience significant improvements in their mental health - both immediately and for up to three months - than others who were randomly assigned smaller doses of the same drug, said the peer-reviewed study, which was published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
"There's something about the psychedelic experience that leads to a rapid resolution of depression symptoms," said James Rucker, a consultant psychiatrist at King's College London who worked on the trial. "We don't really know what that is at the moment, but it's very different to standard antidepressants."
The trial's findings could be an encouraging sign for the 16 million Americans estimated each year by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to have depression, many of whom struggle to find treatments that work for them. Its authors hope the study - which was relatively small, with just 79 participants receiving the 25 mg dose - will pave the way for eventual regulatory approval of psilocybin by the Food and Drug Administration for use as a drug against depression.
The new study randomly assigned 233 adults with depression three doses of psilocybin - 25 mg, 10 mg and 1 mg - across 22 sites in 10 countries. The authors found that the group given the largest dose recorded the most significant improvements in their depression, both immediately and for several weeks after.
Two-thirds of the study's adult participants who were given a 25 mg dose of the active hallucinogen recorded a significant improvement in their depression within as little as three weeks, the researchers found. Within the same period, nearly one-third of those who were given the largest dose found their symptoms had been alleviated to the extent that they no longer qualified for a clinical diagnosis of depression.
After taking a single psilocybin capsule, the study's patients were supervised in an environment where they experienced the drug's hallucinogenic effect while lying down, wearing an eye mask and listening to music. Then they discussed their six-to-eight-hour "trip" with a psychotherapist, who guided them through the insights offered by the experience.'
"Patients describe it as like a waking dream," Rucker said, where "the nature and breadth of experience is expanded." But unlike in a dream, the patient is fully aware of what is happening to them and more likely to remember it as a result - a potential explanation for its alleviation of depression symptoms, Rucker said.
Another notable result of the study was the immediacy of the effect researchers identified psilocybin was having on patients - usually as soon as the next day. It stands them in contrast to conventional antidepressants, which have been known to initially exacerbate symptoms before only taking effect four to six weeks later, if at all, according to a 2012 review into existing research on therapy options for depression.
The precise mechanism by which psilocybin acts against depression is unclear, but it may be connected to the unique way the hallucinogen allows people to access and interrogate their own emotions, the study's authors suggested.
"People often gain some clarity into the reasons they might be depressed. They might be grieving for someone, but they're unable to get in touch with that grief - just as an example," Rucker said. "With awareness comes a sort of clarity."
Barriers on conducting clinical research into certain restricted substances, including psilocybin, have also eased in recent years. In 2018, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced that it was streamlining its application process for researchers wishing to study Schedule I substances, defined in 1971 as having "no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse," and which includes psilocybin.
"What people forget about psychedelics is that they were being used as medicines prior to 1971 when they essentially got caught up in the drugs war," Rucker said. "We're just picking up the baton of history."
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Kellyanne Conway listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in 2017. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Al Drago.
Kellyanne Conway expects Trump to announce 2024 White House bid 'soon'
By Christian Hall Bloomberg
Donald Trump's former senior counselor Kellyanne Conway said she expects the ex-president to announce a widely anticipated comeback bid for the White House "soon."
Conway, who became the first woman to steer a winning presidential campaign with Trump's surprise 2016 victory, said that she advised her former boss to delay launching another run until after the midterm elections as not to distract from Republican efforts to take control of Congress.
"I give him a ton of credit for not announcing this year, for not stepping in the way of the midterm candidates, which a lot of people around him, who frankly need him for their next meal and their next gig and their next center of power" may not have recommended, Conway said Thursday at a breakfast event hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.
"I think you can expect him to announce soon," she said.
Trump has used the midterm cycle to reinforce his grip on the GOP, endorsing candidates from the local level to the U.S. Senate. He is holding rallies in Iowa, Pennsylvania, Florida and Ohio on behalf of those contenders in the days before Tuesday's elections.
The former president has teased for months that he plans to make another White House run, routinely telling supporters they will "be very happy" with his decision. He's sent stronger signals in recent weeks, saying at a rally in Texas on Oct. 22 "I will probably have to do it again."
Those include Trump's former Vice President Mike Pence, who has taken veiled shots at Trump in recent speeches following their acrimonious split on Jan. 6, 2021, when a crowd of Trump supporters rioted at the U.S. Capitol, chanting "hang Mike Pence."
Conway said she speaks to Trump and Pence often and that two never bad-mouth each other in those conversations. She likened Trump and Pence's relationship to "a nasty divorce in the end," and said "they need to find a responsible way to co-parent the future of the party and the conservative movement."
"If I'm Ron DeSantis, I'm sure I can think about running -- but why not go be the best two-term governor of the third-largest state in modern history, if not ever, and then walk into the presidency in 2028?" she said.
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Wednesday morning, Amesbury (Massachusetts) High announced the hiring of former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown as its new girls basketball coach. The 63-year-old Brown replaces Gregg Dollas, who stepped down in April after compiling a 68-15 record over four seasons while leading the program to its first ever state championship last winter.
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By Helena Wegner The Charlotte Observer
No one has won the Powerball jackpot as it continues to get closer to the largest prize in history.
Without a winning ticket sold for the Wednesday, Nov. 2, drawing, the jackpot has climbed to about $1.5 billion, Powerball said in a news release.
The largest Powerball jackpot in history reached $1.586 billion when three players from California, Florida and Tennessee shared the win in 2016.
Now the next drawing on Saturday, Nov. 5, will be the 40th drawing since the last jackpot winner on Aug. 3, the release says.
Though no one won the Wednesday jackpot, 16 tickets matched all five white balls, scoring $1 million each, the release says.
The odds of scoring the $1.5 billion jackpot prize are 1 in 292.2 million, the release said.
Tickets can be bought on the day of the drawing, but sales cutoff times vary from state to state.
Drawings are broadcast on Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:59 p.m. ET.
The national lottery game costs $2 to play. To watch the next Powerball drawing, players can stream it online.
Past winners this year
This year, Powerball jackpot has been won four times. California and Wisconsin winners split a $632.6 million jackpot win on Jan. 5, while a Connecticut player won a $185.3 million jackpot on Feb. 14.
Then an Arizona winner hit a $473.1 million jackpot on April 27, and a player in Vermont won $366.7 million on June 29.
The largest Powerball jackpot was $1.586 billion and was claimed in 2016 by three winners in California, Florida and Tennessee.
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By Sangmi Cha and Min Jeong Lee Bloomberg
The U.S. urged North Korea to halt further "destabilizing" tests and return to negotiations over its nuclear weapons program, State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement. The suspected ICBM was launched from an area near Pyongyang around 7:44 a.m. and flew eastward toward Japan, reaching an altitude of 1,200 miles, according to South Korean data.
"This launch is a clear violation of multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions and demonstrates the threat the DPRK's unlawful weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs pose to its neighbors, the region, international peace and security and the global non-proliferation regime," Price said, referring to North Korea's formal name.
The Republic of Korea Air Force separately announced that its exercises with the U.S. were being extended because of the "ongoing North Korean provocations."
The missile was one of at least three fired by North Korea on Thursday, including two shorter-range rockets that fell into the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. North Korea earlier this week threatened to take "powerful measures" if the U.S. didn't halt military drills with partners including South Korea, firing off at least 23 missiles on Wednesday.
North Korea is barred from conducting ballistic missile tests under UN resolutions intended to pressure Kim Jong Un to give up his nuclear weapons program. The U.S. and its allies believe Kim, who in September reaffirmed his refusal to disarm, is laying the groundwork to conduct his first test of an atomic bomb in five years.
The U.S. and South Korea this week started air drills known as Vigilant Storm that had been scheduled to run through Friday and involve about 240 aircraft in about 1,600 sorties to "hone their wartime capabilities," the U.S. 7th Air Force said in a statement. The drills have added to a series of joint exercises on land, sea and air in recent weeks, some of which have also included Japan.
The suspected ICBM launch Thursday prompted Japan to issue text-message warnings, known as J-Alerts, for citizens to take cover. Tokyo initially said the missile flew over the country's territory, although Japanese authorities later retracted that claim.
"At the time the J-Alert was activated, there was a possibility that the missile would pass over the Japanese archipelago -- based on its trajectory -- so the J-Alert was activated," Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters in Tokyo. North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan last month, the first such test since 2017.
Washington, Tokyo and Seoul have promised a coordinated response if Pyongyang detonates an atomic device, which would also violate Security Council resolutions. The nuclear test might be used to advance Kim's pursuit of miniaturized nuclear warheads to mount on missiles to strike South Korea and Japan, which host the bulk of America's troops in Asia.
The North Korean leader is finding space to ramp up provocations as the Biden administration focuses on Russia's war in Ukraine. Russia and China, two long-time partners of North Korea, have veto power at the Security Council and have shown no intent to punish Kim with extra sanctions.
North Korea has had trouble successfully testing its biggest and newest ICBM, the Hwasong-17. It's considered by experts to likely be the world's largest road-worthy ICBM and likely designed to carry a multiple nuclear warhead payload to the U.S. mainland.
A Hwasong-17 was believed to have blown up in the skies over Pyongyang shortly after take-off on March 16. Pyongyang tried to cover the failure by claiming with a slick video starring Kim that it successfully tested a "huge," new ICBM while actually firing off an older rocket first launched in 2017.
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Elon Musk's photo is seen through a Twitter logo in this illustration taken Oct. 28. Musk, who acquired Twitter for $44 billion last month, plans to eliminate about 3,700 jobs, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Amazon.com said Thursday that it would pause adding new corporate workers, citing an “uncertain” economy and its hiring boom in recent years. Lyft, the ride-hailing company, is going further: It will eliminate 13% of staff, or around 683 people.
Twitter’s cutbacks are under particular scrutiny as new owner Elon Musk shakes up the social-networking business and pares roughly half its jobs.
More broadly, Challenger, Gray & Christmas said Thursday that job-cut announcements are up 48% year-over-year in October, with more layoffs “on the way.”
A federal jobs report on Friday will give a clearer picture of the U.S. hiring trends. Even with the austerity, economists expect a net gain of 200,000 for non-farm payrolls.
Amazon: The e-commerce titan halted “new incremental” hiring across its corporate workforce — a decision Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy and his team made this week. “We anticipate keeping this pause in place for the next few months, and will continue to monitor what we’re seeing in the economy and the business to adjust as we think makes sense,” according to Beth Galetti, Amazon’s top human resources executive.
Chime: The digital-banking startup Chime Financial Inc. is cutting 12% of its staff, or 160 people. A spokesperson said the company remains well-capitalized and the move will position it for “sustained success.”
Galaxy Digital: Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd., the crypto financial services firm founded by billionaire Michael Novogratz, is considering eliminating as much as 20% of its workforce. The plan could still be changed and the final number could be in a range of 15% to 20%, according to people familiar with the matter. Galaxy’s shares have plummeted 70% this year, part of a rout of cryptocurrencies.
Lyft: Lyft’s cost-saving efforts include divesting its vehicle service business. The company, which is preparing to report third-quarter results on Monday, had already said it would freeze hiring in the U.S. until at least next year. It’s now facing even stiffer headwinds. “We are not immune to the realities of inflation and a slowing economy,” co-Founders John Zimmer and Logan Green said in a memo. “We need 2023 to be a period where we can better execute without having to change plans in response to external events — and the tough reality is that today’s actions set us up to do that.”
Stripe: Payments company Stripe Inc., one of the world’s most valuable startups, is cutting more than 1,000 jobs. The 14% staff reduction will return its headcount to almost 7,000 — its total in February. Co-founders Patrick and John Collison told staff that they need to trim expenses more broadly as they prepare for “leaner times.”
Twitter: The upheaval at Twitter has more to do with its recent buyout — and the accompanying debt — than economic concerns. But the company is facing the deepest cuts of its peers right now. Musk, who acquired Twitter for $44 billion last month, plans to eliminate about 3,700 jobs, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The new owner plans to inform affected staffers Friday, said the people. Musk also intends to reverse the company’s existing work-from-anywhere policy, asking remaining employees to report to offices.
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The two men killed when the small plane they were in crashed into an apartment building in Keene on Friday have been identified as Lawrence Marchiony and Marvin David Dezendorf.
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A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board on last month’s fatal plane crash in Keene says neither of the two men on board placed a distress call before the aircraft went down, with a witness saying they heard “pop pop” noises as it flew past.
The Federal Aviation Administration previously reported a single-engine Beechcraft Sierra aircraft crashed into a building north of Keene Dillant-Hopkins Airport in Keene just before 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 21. City officials said no one was injured in the building.
The two men killed in the crash were identified as Lawrence Marchiony and Marvin David Dezendorf. Marchiony, 41, is from Baldwinville, Mass., and Dezendorf is from Townshend, Vermont, according to a news release.
The two men were both pilot-rated, an official with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said last month.
Tim Monville, a senior air safety investigator with the NTSB said the aircraft took off from Runway 2, located roughly a half mile from the crash site, and communications indicate the pilot intended to remain in a traffic pattern but did not specify his exact intentions.
“That was recorded audio. One of the occupants (of the plane) said that,” Monville said. “When I say around the pattern, you’re basically flying a circuit around the runway, to either do an approach or do a landing. I don’t know what their intention was, so I can’t expand upon that.”
There were no communications mentioning problems with the plane, Monville said.
In the NTSB’s preliminary report, released Thursday, several witnesses at Keene Dillant-Hopkins Airport -- one of whom was a pilot and the other a pilot and airframe and powerplant mechanic -- reported the engine sounded “abnormal,” with the pilot witness saying that it “never sounded smooth during the entire time the airplane was on the runway or while airborne.”
The pilot-rated mechanic reported that when the flight was airborne along the runway, he heard “a momentary power reduction, followed by a power advance.”
According to the report, witnesses observed the plane in "a very shallow climb," rising no higher than about 200 feet over ground level about 5,200 feet down the runway, with only about 1,000 feet of runway left. Other witnesses reported "the poor engine sound continued."
A witness located about a half nautical mile north-northeast from the departure end of Runway 2 reported the airplane was flying “not much higher" than 50 feet above ground level when it flew by him.
“He reported hearing ‘pop pop’ sounds, then the airplane began descending and the engine sound became louder, but the popping sound stopped when the flight was descending,” the report stated.
No distress call was made by an occupant of the airplane on the CTAF, according to the NTSB report.
No reason for the crash was included in Thursday's report.
The plane crashed into a garage attached to a two-story apartment building about half a mile north-northeast of the airport, officials said.
Bystanders’ photos and videos posted online show a small apartment building engulfed in flames after the crash.
Monville said investigators have video from two different cameras in the area that captured the crash and the ensuing fireball.
People were home when the plane crashed into the building, Keene Fire Department Chief Donald Farquhar said, but no one in the building was hurt.
The fire spread quickly from the crash, and it took firefighters almost two hours to bring the fire under control.
Wreckage consisting of the aft end of the empennage (stabilizing surfaces at the tail of an aircraft), sections of left wing, left and right main landing gear, and engine assembly with the propeller attached were recovered from the crash site and are being held for examination.
Monville said the Keene Fire Department’s ladder truck was “instrumental” in helping to recover wreckage from the site.
The plane was owned by Monadnock Aviation, which offers charter flights, and training for people who want to get recreational pilot’s licenses.
Preliminary NTSB report on Keene plane crash
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A supporter of President Donald Trump holds a sign stating "STOP THE STEAL" and a pin stating "Poll Watcher" after Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden overtook President Donald Trump in the Pennsylvania general election vote count across the street from where ballots are being counted, three days after the 2020 U.S. presidential election, in Philadelphia on Nov. 6, 2020.
By Ned Parker and Andy Sullivan Reuters
The canvassers in California's Shasta County in September wore reflective orange vests and official-looking badges that read “Voter Taskforce.” Four residents said they mistook them for government officials.
The incidents highlight how a once-routine staple of American elections -- door-to-door canvassing -- has been adopted by former President Donald Trump's supporters since the 2020 election to prove his baseless claims of voter fraud, or potentially disenfranchise voters by stoking doubts about voter registration books.
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz is shown at the defense table during a victim impact statement at Cruz’s sentencing hearing at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Wednesday.
Patricia Padauy Oliver cries as the sentence is read for the murder of her son. This during the sentencing hearing for Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S., November 2, 2022. Amy Beth Bennett/Pool via REUTERS
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Nikolas Cruz, who murdered 17 students and staff with a semi-automatic rifle at a Florida high school, was formally sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after listening to hours of anguished testimony from survivors and victims’ relatives.
Many victims’ relatives castigated the jury’s decision and criticized a state law requirement that all 12 jurors be unanimous in order to sentence a convicted person to be executed.
Some relatives also chided Cruz’s defense lawyers, who fruitlessly objected to the judge about the criticism of them and the jurors on Tuesday, noting that Cruz had a constitutional right to legal representation.
Many victims’ relatives directly addressed Cruz, who sat inscrutable behind large spectacles and a COVID-19 mask at a table alongside his public defenders, wearing red prison overalls and handcuffs. He removed his mask when the mother of one of his victims told him keeping it on was disrespectful
“I’m sorry that you never saw the love that the world is capable of giving,” she told Cruz. “My justice does not lie in knowing if you live or if you die. My justice lives in knowing that I experienced a love that a lot of people go their whole lifetimes without experiencing.”
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Bottles of prescription painkiller OxyContin made by Purdue Pharma LP sit on a shelf at a local pharmacy in Provo, Utah, on April 25, 2017.
By Lenny Bernstein The Washington Post
The new recommendations eliminate numerical dose limits and caps on length of treatment for chronic pain patients that had been suggested in the landmark 2016 version of the agency’s advice, which was aimed at curbing the liberal use of the medication and controlling a rampaging opioid epidemic.
Those guidelines cautioned doctors that commencing opioid therapy was a momentous decision for patients.
The new 100 pages of guidance — which remain only recommendations for doctors, nurse practitioners and others authorized to prescribe opioids — emphasize returning the focus to the caregiver and patient deciding on the best course of treatment.
“This guideline is really intended to be a mechanism to help patients and providers work together,” Christopher Jones, acting director of CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, said in an interview Thursday. “We have leaned in on more principles, rather than thresholds.”
Though a record 107,000 Americans died of opioid overdoses in 2021, much about the epidemic has changed since 2016. The number of prescriptions for opioids, which peaked at more than 255 million in 2012, was still at nearly 215 million when the CDC released the first guidelines.
Yet chronic pain — defined as pain that lasts more than three months — remains one of the most common conditions suffered by U.S. patients. In 2019, 1 in 5 adults reported chronic pain, and 1 in 14 said it limited life or work activities, according to the CDC. Chronic pain is blamed for $560 billion to $635 billion in direct medical costs, lost productivity and disability each year, and contributes to 9% of suicides, the agency said.
At least one group had hoped the guidelines would retain numerical caps in one of the boldfaced recommendations for prescribers. In a March 25 letter, Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, one of the fiercest critics of liberal opioid use, advised highlighting a cap of 50 morphine milligram equivalents as the daily line at which prescribers are likely to face “diminishing returns.” That number is noted deeper in the guidance.
The new recommendations also include advice on ways doctors and patients can discuss tapering off drugs; a warning that clinicians should “weigh benefits and risks and exercise care when changing opioid dosage”; and a notice that they should “regularly reevaluate benefits and risks of continued opioid therapy with patients.”
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Barbara Katz, marketing and public relations vice president at Temple B’nai Israel in Laconia, in the temple’s prayer hall Wednesday, a week before the temple holds an observance to mark the 84th anniversary of the “Night of Broken Glass,” an outburst of extreme Nazi-led violence directed at Jews on the night of Nov. 9-10, 1938.
Temple B’nai Israel, shown in late September, shortly after graffiti, including swastikas, was found at both the Laconia Public Library and Opechee Park. On Nov. 9, the temple will hold an outdoor observance of the 84th anniversary of the “Night of Broken Glass” when Nazis attacked Jews throughout Germany, setting the stage for the Holocaust.
LACONIA — One of Lois Kessin’s strongest childhood memories is when she stood up to men making antisemitic remarks outside the Busy Corner convenience store.
Kessin, 73, grew up in a Laconia that she said tolerated its Jewish residents while not always welcoming them fully.
For example, Jewish doctors had privileges at the former Lakes Region General Hospital, she said, but weren’t able to work at a specialty clinic in the city.
In the place known as the City on the Lakes, Jews couldn’t join some yacht clubs, Kessin continued, nor could they buy the most desirable waterfront property.
“My first confrontation with an adult was at Busy Corner,” said Kessin, who during an interview at Temple B’nai Israel recalled she was about 15, coming home from classes at Laconia High School.
“I was getting a Coke and two guys were saying ‘the Jews have all the money’ and I said ‘I’m Jewish, my parents work 70 hours a week and I get a small allowance.’”
More than half a century later, Kessin still sees antisemitism in her hometown, most recently, graffiti at both the Laconia Public Library and at Opechee Park that included swastikas, something she and city leaders say hearkens back to Nazi Germany and its effort to wipe out the Jewish people.
On the night of Nov. 10, 1938, Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, ordered that Jewish persons and property be attacked in retaliation for the murder of a Nazi diplomat by a German student of Polish-Jewish descent.
More than 7,000 Jewish businesses were destroyed and many synagogues were burned. Nearly 100 Jews were killed and some 30,000 were arrested, leading to the expansion of Nazi concentration camps.
This year, Temple B’nai Israel will hold its own “Night of Broken Glass” observance, to which all are welcome, on Wednesday, Nov. 9, on the steps of the temple at 210 Court St.
The hope is that the observance will unite Laconia “in solidarity against antisemitism, racism, hatred, and intolerance,” the temple said in a press release.
“We can’t just stick our heads in the sand because it (antisemitism) is happening,” said Barbara Katz, the marketing and public relations vice president at Temple B’nai Israel, who joined Kessin at the temple for an interview.
Rabbi Jan Katz of Temple B’nai Israel, in remarks that were provided in advance of the Nov. 9 event, said the remembrance demonstrates “that the Jewish people have not only survived – but we, together with the recognition and support of all good people of faith and ethics, will continue to go from strength to strength.”
The temple commemorated Kristallnacht last year with a gathering outside the temple that drew about two dozen people, Laconia Mayor Andrew Hosmer among them. Short speeches were delivered and Kessin read the famous quote of German clergyman Martin Niemöller, who at first supported some Nazi ideas, but later repudiated them.
Niemöller wrote how he did not speak out when the Nazis came for the socialists, the trade unionists and Jews because he was not one of them.
“Then they (the Nazis) came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me,” said Niemöller.
Temple B’nai Israel supports several relief initiatives and charities in Laconia and surrounding towns and does so because “it’s what we’re taught as Jews,” which is to “repair the world” and to make it a better place for all its inhabitants, said Katz.
Katz said antisemitism “has been here and probably will never go away.” Kessin agreed that “the bottom line is antisemitism is something we fight every single day.”
“Nothing’s going to change quickly,” Katz said, but educating the public and reminding them annually about the horrible truth of the “Night of Broken Glass” is a good place to start.
“Our hope is to bring people together to understand what happened in 1938 and to make sure that it doesn’t happen in 2038 or 2023 or whenever,” said Katz, “and that we don’t bring down other people” because of their race or religion.
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Concord at Timberlane (6:30 p.m.)
Neither of these teams is trending in the right direction. Timberlane, 21-20.
Portsmouth/Oyster River at Merrimack (6:30 p.m.)
Each of these teams picked up a signature victory last weekend to improve their seeding. Merrimack, 21-13.
Spaulding at Pinkerton (7 p.m.)
The Astros’ offense seems to have found the highest gear. Pinkerton, 34-14.
Campbell at Monadnock (6:30 p.m.)
This will be the latest in a large number of big games between these programs. Monadnock, 33-22.
Dover at Bishop Guertin (2 p.m.)
The Cardinals may have to score a lot of points to advance. BG, 39-22.
Bedford at Windham (2 p.m.)
No matter which team wins this matchup, Nashua North will have its hands full next weekend. Bedford, 14-12.
St. Thomas at Gilford/Belmont (1 p.m.)
The Golden Eagles beat the Saints last weekend and they’ll beat them this weekend too. Gilford/Belmont, 28-14.
Plymouth at Pelham (1 p.m.)
Knocking off the Pythons won’t be easy, but the Bobcats may be able to put up a good fight. Pelham, 27-14.
Hanover at Bow (1 p.m.)
Hanover has lost three of its last four games. Bow, 35-13.
Kennett at Souhegan (1 p.m.)
The Souhegan offense gets most of the attention, but the Sabers have limited their opponents to 46 points in their eight victories. Souhegan, 34-14.
Inter-Lakes/Moultonborough at Trinity (1 p.m.)
No upset here. Trinity, 36-12.
Raymond at Somersworth (1 p.m.)
The Rams trailed by 42 points after one quarter when these teams met earlier this season. Somersworth, 49-13.
Bishop Brady at Newport (1 p.m.)
It’s hard to find a path to victory for the Giants. Newport, 35-6.
Division I non-playoffs
Nashua South at Salem (7 p.m.)
One of these teams will earn its third victory. In a typical year, that wouldn’t give either of these programs reason to celebrate. Salem, 28-20.
Winnacunnet at Central (7 p.m.)
The Warriors are seeking their third victory in the last four games. Winnacunnet, 20-14.
Keene at Memorial (7 p.m.)
Last chance for the Crusaders to iron out any wrinkles before they face Central on Thanksgiving. Memorial, 28-12.
Goffstown at Alvirne (7 p.m.)
And you think picking these games is easy? Goffstown, 20-13.
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Londonderry's Drew Heenan picks up yardage in the Lancers' Mack Plaque matchup with Pinkerton in September.
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Why? Because of the nine teams Winnacunnet has played this season, eight qualified for the playoffs. That includes five of the top six seeds.
Francoeur’s pick to win it all is top-seeded Londonderry.
“I think they just have too much offensive firepower, and they have an absolute motor on every part of the field,” Francoeur said. “When you watch their special teams … everything is 100 miles an hour. That combined with Coach Lauzon (Jimmy Lauzon) and Heenan (quarterback Drew Heenan) together. I watched every snap they took this year and I feel like Heenan’s got Jimmy’s brain inside of his head right now when he’s running things.”
Londonderry beat Winnacunnet in last year’s Division I final, and Francoeur said the Lancers are better on offense this year than they were last season.
“The two defenses we can talk about, but they’re 50 percent better on offense,” he said. “Besides a couple of Pinkerton backs, they’re faster than everyone else.
“It’s going to be hard to match up with them for four quarters. That’s what I think. And again, I think Heenan is the difference-maker. They have the best player at quarterback and at receiver (Andrew Kullman) in the state in my opinion, and the other guys aren’t shabby at all. They have a lot to deal with.”
Francoeur said the best game of the weekend may be Saturday’s matchup between No. 10 Bedford at No. 7 Windham.
“I’ve seen a lot of Windham film and I feel like they’re the dark horse in this thing,” he said. “They just keep getting better. Other than (Bishop Hendricken), I would argue they played Londonderry better than anyone all year. There’s just something about them.
“I think my upset pick is maybe who comes out of that Bedford/Windham game. Maybe one of those teams gets the upset against North. North is the only team I know nothing about, but they have that BG win and that’s pretty impressive. Plus, Bedford Week 1 is a good win. I’d be interested to see how that game would go now. North at 9-0 … I don’t think anyone gets a worse draw.”
Francoeur’s other thoughts:
• “BG is really good. If BG gets a lead on you, you’re going to be in trouble because they’re just going to pound it downhill. The quarterback (Matt Santosuosso) can just take over a football game.”
• “Pinkerton is playing like a different team right now since that Londonderry game (a 31-6 loss).”
• “What happened the last couple weeks with (Timberlane) really surprised me. I like that Concord running back (Eli Bahuma) a lot. He’s a difference-maker dealing with him all game.”
• “With Exeter, I say will they be able to score enough in these games? Billy (Exeter coach Bill Ball) will have a great game plan, they’ll be playing at home and I don’t think they’ll make a lot of mistakes. Regardless if it’s Concord or Timberlane, they’re going to be walking into a tough atmosphere.”
Top-seeded Gilford/Belmont will enter the Division II playoffs with the top dual-threat quarterback in the division. Junior Isaiah Reese has run for 1,201 yards and 20 touchdowns on 89 carries, and has also completed 48 of 92 passes for 960 yards and 11 TDs.
The Golden Eagles will open the playoffs against No. 8 St. Thomas. Gilford/Belmont beat St. Thomas 34-7 last weekend. Reese completed 7 of 11 passes for 109 yards and two touchdowns in that victory. He also ran for 151 yards on 11 carries.
Monadnock had its way with Campbell in Litchfield during Week 6, when the Huskies beat the Cougars 50-7. Third-seeded Campbell will play second-seeded Monadnock in Swanzey in Friday night's Division III semifinals, and Campbell coach Glen Costello said he doesn’t consider his team to be a decided underdog.
“It was a regular-season game in which they wanted it more than our guys,” Costello said. “We looked at the film and recognized the things we need to improve on, and my hat’s off to the kids. They’ve gotten better each week since then.”
Running back Jack Lorenz ran for 361 yards and five touchdowns in the first meeting between the teams.
“We had two turnovers in the first quarter of that first game — one a fumble and one on an onside kick,” Costello said. “If we can nip those in the bud, then we’ll be OK. Then I think it comes down to blocking and tackling, which is any Campbell/Monadnock game.”
Campbell and Monadnock met in the 2017 and 2018 Division III championship games, both of which were defensive battles. Campbell won 12-8 in 2017, and Monadnock prevailed 15-12 on a last-second field goal in 2018.
“I’m biased, but I think in the state of New Hampshire it’s one of the coolest rivalries in the last seven or eight years,” Costello said. “Those championship years were two juggernaut fights. There have been some one-sided games during the regular season, but most of those games have been decided in the fourth quarter.
“I’m optimistic that if we play like we’ve been playing the last couple weeks we’ll surprise some people.”
Top-seeded Somersworth (7-0) appears to be an overwhelming favorite to repeat as the Division IV champion. The Hilltoppers beat the three other Division IV playoff teams by a combined score of 137-7 during the regular season: The breakdown:
Somersworth 48, Raymond 0
Somersworth 54, Bishop Brady 0
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Patriots coach Joe Judge watches Mac Jones during practice Wednesday in Foxborough, Mass.
Time for the Patriots to help Jones up off the mat
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Something has changed.
During his press availability Wednesday, the Patriots quarterback actually smiled and laughed. He seemed more at ease than in recent weeks.
The lack of having an offensive guru is another matter, but that issue has been beaten to death, and isn’t going to change in the immediate future. The Patriots just need to get Jones back on the path of progression instead of continuing down the road of regression he was on.
Jones was sacked six times against the Jets, hit countless other times, and faced pressure on nearly 50% of his dropbacks. That can’t continue.
It won’t matter that they’ve gone from using tough love on him to being the head cheerleaders in his fan club trying to give him a boost.
That means continuing to mold the offense around his skill set. They must provide the best possible playing field for him. And, if Belichick has determined that Jones responds better to bouquets than grenades, then just stick with the bouquets.
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Varitek signs new 3-year deal to remain on Red Sox coaching staff
Bringing back Varitek is no surprise. The 50-year-old has played an integral role in helping Boston’s pitchers and catchers for more than a decade since retirement. He served a hybrid role between the front office and coaching staff as a special assistant from 2012 to 2020, then joined the coaching staff full-time as the game-planning coordinator before last year. He’ll be back in that role for a third season in 2022.
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Rose decided to explore online dating. She met a man and her entire life changed. She has become totally involved, dependent, isolated and controlled.
He wants nothing to do with any of her family, friends or church family. Rose has ceased all communication with others.
In two months’ time she bought a life insurance policy, moved in with him and sold her house. No one knows her address or contact information.
She has deleted her friends from Facebook and has ceased all communication with her family.
DEAR ABBY: I’ve been divorced for 18 years. My sister is also divorced. Recently, she has been going out with my ex. He picks her up at our parents’ house, where she has been living. When I’m there, I have to see this. My parents don’t say anything to her about it, and I don’t know why. When I was married to him, they always told me they disliked him.
So now that their other daughter associates with him, they are keeping silent?
DEAR HURTING: It has been nearly two decades since you and your ex-husband parted ways. Surely your family has been aware of the reasons for it.
That your sister exercises such poor judgment that she would become involved with him is sad.
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Dear Abby: Widow essentially disappears after beginning new romance | Human Interest | unionleader.com
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— Ellen W., Watertown, South Dakota
DEAR HELOISE: More times than I can count, I’ve left my watch, cellphone, glasses, etc., in a dressing room and walked off. Now, I put everything in my shoes while I’m changing, and that way, I won’t be able to forget things in the dressing room anymore.
— Mary-Anne K., Scottsdale, Arizona
DEAR HELOISE: I have a long notepad on the side of my refrigerator, which is held there by a magnet, and when I realize I’m out of something, I write it down on my notepad. When I go to the grocery store, I always take the list with me. Now, I no longer forget to pick up more milk, bread, cat food or coffee!
— Linda A., Santa Fe, New Mexico
DEAR HELOISE: My niece was getting married, and she wanted something to put under an antique glass dome. So, she asked if she could have some of the beautiful buttons I had collected over the years. She made an unusual, but stunning bridal bouquet out of them, which she carried on her wedding day, and now rests under her antique glass dome. Three of the buttons came from her great grandmother’s wedding gown, one came from the blue suit her grandmother was married in, and two more came from the era of the Civil War. There were a total of 48 buttons in all. It’s a novel conversation starter and a very pretty addition to her home.
— Joan R., Lafayette, Louisiana
DEAR HELOISE: A pickpocket took my wallet a few years ago, and it taught me a lesson: First, men should place a rubber band around their wallets. It’s harder to get it out of a pocket that way. Always carry your wallet in a front pocket, if possible. It’s just too easy for a pickpocket if the wallet is in a back pocket.
— Walter D., Aberdeen, Washington
I use a microfiber cloth and use a little bit of whole milk at a time to polish my shoes and belts. I work it in carefully, usually while I’m watching a movie, and in no time, I’ve got all my shoes polished and looking nice.
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These would include election-denier zealots who are telling people to vote only by write-in, including for candidates whose names are in fact on the ballot.
Machine-counted ballots can’t be trusted, is the claim, even though the system has and continues to work very well. In 2020, a bad folding machine in Windham, not a conspiracy, caused a miscount in that race. It was so out of step with other town results that it was quickly caught.
That means nothing to the zealots. Some of them are also urging people to write in names of random people not running in order to gum up the election night counts, delaying the results, and sowing doubt where they can.
“Voter integrity” is an interesting term. To many of us, it means having faith in our neighbors and fellow citizens who work late into the night, as volunteers or for little pay, and simply want to let democracy work.
To others, however, it is an Orwellian phrase whose real meaning is to undermine trust at every turn. Democracy may prevail but it is by no means certain.
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Election delayers: Cast doubt, not ballots | Editorials | unionleader.com
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We give the good doctor credit for signing up for a thankless task and for being game enough to stand on the stage with Sununu, whose administrative skills helped him guide the state through the unprecedented challenges of a pandemic. The man’s boundless optimism also helped in that effort and was on full display Wednesday evening.
Asking Sununu if he would promise to serve out a full two-year term if reelected was a legitimate question. But if the TV9 team thought his “yes” answer means that he won’t entertain a 2024 presidential bid, they may want to ask Uncle Gus to explain things to them. Sununu could find a way to keep his day job while campaigning for another in two years.
Dr. Sherman, by the way, pledged to serve if elected.
One area in which both candidates disappointed was in the matter of parental rights in schools. Sununu and Sherman acknowledged a role for parents but suggested that it would be OK for a “trusted” teacher or other school figure to interfere with that role. That’s a pretty slippery slope that ought to be avoided.
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To the Editor: I am a life-long Republican who has rarely voted for a Democrat. This election, I'm voting for two: Maggie Hassan for Senate, and Annie Kuster for Congress. Both have served New Hampshire well. Both have been responsive to my concerns as a constituent, and a Republican. Both have cooperated with Republicans in Washington, the bi-partisan cooperation we need.
Their opponents are exactly the Donald Trump extremists we do not need in Washington. They are the inheritors of the attempted takeover on January 6th. They must be stopped, now, before they further threaten our Democratic process and rule of law. Don Bolduc should be respected for his service, but he should not be a senator.
We are fortunate to have Maggie Hassan and Annie Kuster serving us. We should not exchange them for people who will support and serve Trump, more than the people of New Hampshire or our democratic process.
MALCOLM SWENSON
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To the Editor: Social Security is very important to older people who rely on that money once they retire. I know. I paid into it for many years and now rely on it. Throughout those years, Congress has had to work together whenever the fund needed more money, but they always did so in a bipartisan manner. Now we have some candidates running who do not understand how it works and think it should end. Sadly, the very young Republican candidate for Congress in our district says if she beats our Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas, she looks forward to introducing legislation to privatize Social Security. She doesn’t understand why we and America’s future generations need Social Security. This is a very close election. If you have Social Security or plan to have it, bring everyone you know to the polls on Tuesday to vote for Pappas.
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To the Editor: The experimental Pfizer drug Paxlovid will be available to New Hampshire residents via telehealth appointments. The FDA has approved the use of Paxlovid under an experimental use authorization. Recently, Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed a bill that would have allowed pharmacists to prescribe a similar off-label drug called ivermectin, which has been used throughout the world for anti viral, anti-parasitic and (most recently) anti-inflammatory purposes. While Paxlovid is expensive and has been reported to cause a rebound of symptoms, ivermectin is off-label, cheap, on the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines, and was awarded with the Nobel Prize in 2015 for its treatment of infectious diseases.
Since one of these drugs is proprietarily expensive and by definition, experimental, while the other is an approved cheap, safe and award-winning option, is it not pertinent to ask why our governor blocked one, while his Department of Health and Human Services is receiving a $3.4 million dollar contract for the other?
BEN DAIGLE
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First, before we were even sworn in, we began seeking to rebuild relationships with our partner organizations. For example, we have been working hand in hand with the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on a wide variety of cases and organizational issues. We have also been working with police departments throughout the county to expand and improve communication and modernize case processing. We have identified and assigned additional duties to a specific assistant county attorney to serve as a liaison with the Manchester Police Department, since the Queen City is the largest community in our county and in the entire state. That assistant county attorney is physically present at the Manchester Police Station as their schedule allows and they are also communicating electronically with police. The liaison fosters improved cooperation between the Hillsborough County Attorney’s Office and Manchester Police Department.
In addition, we are updating, managing, and disseminating a list of high priority cases on a bi-weekly basis. These cases have been identified by both our office and local law enforcement as meriting this kind of attention. We have been making a successful effort along with the county government to introduce new technologies and extract as much as possible out of limited resources. The county attorney’s office is much improved from the operation it was 21 months ago.
Of course, change is inevitable and much of it brings challenges. Several of our attorneys have moved on to other opportunities or retired. Some of our legal assistants are now attending law school. Nonetheless, the office is now full of dynamic attorneys and staff working tirelessly for justice. We’ve risen to the challenges with which we have been confronted and grown stronger as a result.
Much remains to be done, but the efficiencies, technology and, most importantly, relationships we have established and reestablished are starting to yield dividends. Our goals are the equal application of the law under the Rule of Law as well as protecting the rights of victims and allowing their voices to be heard. We continue to move the Hillsborough County Attorney’s Office forward as we successfully prosecute serious felonies in both the Northern and Southern District.
As a former captain in the U.S. Marine Corps and a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard who served three tours in Iraq, as well as a retired State of New Hampshire judge, I understand and appreciate how truly precious and fragile our freedoms and justice are.
The general election is Tuesday, Nov. 8. Please vote for John J. Coughlin for Hillsborough County Attorney.
Hillsborough County Attorney John J. Coughlin (R-Amherst) is a veteran and retired state judge.
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REP. CHRIS PAPPAS
Office of U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H.
WHEN PEOPLE ask me what the best part of being in Congress is, I tell them it’s when I get on the plane to come back home to New Hampshire each week. That’s because I serve the people of New Hampshire, not party leaders in Washington, and it’s by listening to you that I understand the challenges facing working families, seniors, and small businesses. I also know that, too often, Washington misses the mark.
That’s why I’m working to change the way Washington works and bring the voices of Granite Staters with me to the Capitol to inform the work that I do. I’m fighting to lower costs for families, on everything from groceries to gas to home heating oil. And I’m pushing the leadership of my own party to focus on the issues that matter, like protecting our communities, supporting our small businesses, and standing up to the entrenched special interests that for too long have called the shots.
There is serious work to do to ensure this economy works for everyone, and the only way we will progress is if we work together to solve problems and put people first.
On the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, I worked to strengthen our supply chains and invest in New Hampshire’s infrastructure. Our bipartisan infrastructure law is helping rebuild state roads and bridges, connect our schools, homes, and small businesses to high-speed broadband, and modernize our water and sewer pipes.
I fought to pass the CHIPS and Science Act, legislation to bolster the workforce and jumpstart American manufacturing of critical semiconductor chips found in everything from your microwave to your new car.
I’ve also fought to cut taxes for New Hampshire families, pass energy rebates to save families money on energy bills, and take on Big Pharma to lower the cost of prescription drugs.
These things didn’t happen by accident. They got done because people worked to find common ground and focused on delivering results. That’s how I approach my work every day, and it’s a stark contrast to my opponent.
Karoline Leavitt would have stood in the way of bipartisan compromises and steps to lower costs. She would have voted against infrastructure investments, stood with Big Pharma against lowering drug prices and capping insulin at $35, and stood with the Chinese Communist Party in opposing investments in American manufacturing.
Her extreme agenda is a raw deal for New Hampshire. Karoline wants to write the bill to privatize Social Security and supports raising the retirement age. She wants to “100% repeal” the Affordable Care Act, which would rip health care away from tens of thousands of Granite Staters, gut our ability to fight the addiction crisis, and eliminate protections for those with pre-existing conditions.
She even says she would be willing to shut down the government if she didn’t get her way, a move that could jeopardize critical programs and allow Republicans to follow through on their plan to cut Social Security and Medicare.
This election presents a stark choice. Do we send a problem solver to Washington to get things done for Granite Staters or a partisan bomb thrower who will add to obstruction and chaos?
We have too much division and gamesmanship in politics. What the people of New Hampshire deserve is continued action and someone who looks out for them.
I’ll always fight to stand up to Big Pharma and Big Oil to lower prices. I’ll always protect Social Security to ensure every American can retire with dignity. I’ll always work to lower health care costs and protect coverage. I’ll always speak up for a woman’s right to choose, and I’ll never put my loyalty to party above the will of the voters and our democracy.
I humbly ask for your vote and your trust to continue doing this work together, focused on people and not on politics.
Rep. Chris Pappas (D-Manchester) represents the 1st Congressional District.
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Early that morning, a person in a dark hoodie, red cap and gloves was captured by a security camera quickly walking toward the Donut Hole with a baseball bat and a note in one hand and a bottle in the other. The assailant, who still hasn't been apprehended by police, posted the note on the neighboring business's door and then stood before the Barbie-pink facade of the doughnut shop. They took three thundering swings at the glass door until it shattered, then lit the bottle on fire and threw it inside.
The damage from the molotov cocktail was minimal, the owners told The Washington Post. By Wednesday, the Donut Hole was back open, and its employees were ready to serve up hot cups of joe and the fresh doughnuts Swain decorates every day. But Swain said there's an unnerving sense of shock that someone would take to violence over "something so small as having a ceramic doughnut exhibit with drag queen servers."
"We just want to make doughnuts," Hunter said. "We're just a small business. Like we're just trying to make doughnuts and have fun. We don't understand."
The Oct. 15 event had been filled "with overwhelming support, love and laughs," Hunter said. That night, the doughnut shop transformed into "The Queens Dirty Dozens," a concept envisioned by artist Daniel Gulick. A cartoon silhouette of Queen Elizabeth II decorated the shop. Instead of performing, drag queens dressed in their best 1950s housewife outfits served colorful ceramic doughnut sculptures. People lined up, down the block, hoping to enjoy the pop-up.
But the morning after the event, Swain and Hunter returned to the shop to find pieces of shattered glass where the front door had once been. Someone had smashed it overnight, Hunter said - though the motive behind the vandalism isn't clear.
"We couldn't work for a couple of days because the weather affects the inside temperature and impacts the doughnut-making," Hunter said. "Thankfully we had so much support from the community to get everything back together and get back operational."
Locals helped pick up the mess, and children used chalk to draw rainbows and hope-filled messages outside the Donut Hole. Donors quickly surpassed the goal set on GoFundMe to replace the glass, and the leftover $3,500 was donated by Swain and Hunter to Tulsa's Dennis R. Neill Equality Center, which supports the LGBTQ community. The shop reopened Oct. 19, serving Halloween-themed baked goods and pumpkin doughnuts with cream cheese icing - Swain's favorite.
But just when everything seemed to be turning a corner, the Donut Hole was targeted a second time - just three days before Swain and Hunter were planning to give out free doughnuts as a thank-you to their community. The molotov cocktail thrown inside didn't completely break, but it left behind traces of smoke and ash. Investigators still don't know who was behind the attack, but the person left "an envelope with anti-LGBTQ messages and scripture," Swain said.
The incidents at the doughnut shop in Tulsa's Brookside neighborhood mirror the string of protests and attacks that have followed drag and LGBTQ events across the nation this year. From California to New York, far-right groups and individuals have increasingly targeted events such as Drag Story Hour, often justifying their actions by casting the normalization of discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity as the "grooming" of children, The Post previously reported.
"It's super heartbreaking because this is like a new thing for us that we're experiencing," Swain said. "But for the [drag] queens, this is just their life and nothing really new to them. And it's so sad because they're feeling some guilt after what happened to us, and it's in no way their fault."
Yet, despite the shock and fear, Swain said she's ready to get back to making doughnuts at the shop she and Hunter bought in May - the place where she's able "to create, be artistic and bring joy every day."
Strangers and customers have once again helped that become a reality. When the Donut Hole reactivated its original GoFundMe after Monday's attack, hundreds of donations began to pour in, reaching over $20,000 - well over its $2,500 goal.
It also helps that the same local business that replaced the shop's glass door after the first attack was able to make another copy after this week's incident.
"Luckily they still had our measurements," Swain said.
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A man with drug convictions in three other states faces life in prison in New Hampshire following his arrest over the summer on charges involving the sale of methamphetamine and fentanyl.
According to court affidavits, Clarence Collins, 58, either sold or engineered the sale of 11 ounces of methamphetamines' during three separate transactions in 2022. The transactions involved a confidential informant working with the New Hampshire Attorney General Drug Task Force.
And he did it with an apparent sweet tooth. In one transaction, Collins allegedly told the informant to hide four ounces of meth in a bag with two Dunkin' Donut muffins. In another, drugs were wrapped in oatmeal cookie packaging.
“The New Hampshire Department of Justice takes drug crimes very seriously and we work hand in hand with departments and task forces throughout the Granite State to investigate and prosecute those who traffic illegal drugs in our communities," said Danielle Sakowski, chief of the Drug Task Force, in an email.
Dosage of methamphetamine can vary widely, according to the DEA, ranging from 0.1 gram to a few grams on the high end. Using 1 gram as a benchmark, the 11 ounces amounted to 308 doses. The ounces sold for $700 an ounce.
Clarence Collins
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By Carol D. Leonnig, Devlin Barrett and Josh Dawsey The Washington Post
Patel, a former federal prosecutor, is considered a key witness by the Justice Department in large measure because of what evidence he may provide in defense of Trump's retention of the records, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss it. Some of the records contained top-secret information about Iran's missile system and intelligence related to China, The Washington Post has previously reported.
Patel declared in media interviews in May and June that he was present when Trump decided to declassify material - though he brought up the subject in the context of investigations of any connections between Trump and Russian election interference, or past investigations involving Hillary Clinton, and did not mention the Mar-a-Lago probe, then in its early stages.
While Trump has publicly said he declassified material he brought to Mar-a-Lago, his lawyers have studiously avoided making such a claim in court filings - arguing only that he might have done so.
Patel's grand jury appearance marks his second in less than a month. At his first appearance in October, he asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the situation. Prosecutors argued he was not in legal jeopardy and therefore could not take the Fifth, but a federal judge disagreed with the government.
Prosecutors ultimately decided to grant Patel limited-use immunity, the people familiar with the matter said, meaning he could not be charged for a crime based on what he said in the grand jury, as long as he didn't lie.
That doesn't mean his testimony will necessarily hurt Trump; it's quite possible his answers could be helpful to the former president. But prosecutors would still very much like to understand how much of a declassification defense Trump may have, and Patel may be the witness most able to explain that.
"It's information that Trump felt spoke to matters regarding everything from Russiagate to the Ukraine impeachment fiasco to major national security matters of great public importance," Patel said in a Breitbart interview on May 5.
"Trump declassified whole sets of materials in anticipation of leaving government that he thought the American public should have the right to read themselves," he said.
FBI agents have since queried other former administration officials on whether there was such a declassification - and, more broadly, how Trump handled classified records. They asked specifically whether the officials had seen any evidence of what Patel claimed.
The agents' first set of questions focused on whether the lawyers participated in packing boxes of records for Trump's departure from office or knew details about that effort, which both said they had not.
But FBI agents also pointed the former White House lawyers to Patel's statements and asked whether they knew if Trump had actually declassified scores of records, the people said. Their questions tested the validity of Patel's claims and also sought to learn what, if any, process the Trump White House followed to declassify records.
In one case, the people said, Eisenberg told agents that agencies quickly reviewed an image of an Iranian missile on a launchpad - a picture from a top-secret document - and removed identification markings and other tradecraft clues so that Trump could tweet it.
In handling another Trump request to tweet a national secret, Eisenberg told the FBI, according to these people, Trump was discouraged from immediately declassifying and sharing a document that could reveal human intelligence sources. Aides persuaded the president to wait for a multiagency review of the potential damage of release, Eisenberg said, according to these people. In the end, Trump did not send the tweet.
John Bolton, Trump's national security adviser until Trump fired him in the fall of 2019, said in an interview that he has not been questioned by the FBI. He also disputed Trump's claim that he had a standing order to declassify anything he took from the West Wing to his residence to review. And he said he was very skeptical of Patel's description of Trump declassifying a trove of records all at once.
"There was a never standing order to declassify things. The notion of massive declassification or on a whim, declassifying things - I don't remember Trump doing that. He didn't do that," Bolton said. "He acted so haphazardly that the formality of saying `declassify something' just didn't occur to him. He thought if he tweeted something out or said something, then it was just declassified."
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The Chinese leader also spoke of the joint need to ensure the stability of food and energy supply chains, which have both been disrupted by Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Kremlin officials including former President Dmitry Medvedev have warned in recent months about the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine as Moscow's faltering war enters its tenth month.
Xi's comments send a clear message to Putin that nuclear threats are a red line for China, giving Beijing some common ground with Brussels on a conflict that's strained ties with the bloc. The Chinese leader's declaration of a "no limits" friendship with Putin before the invasion prompted Europe to reexamine the security risks of expanding economic ties with Beijing.
Josef Gregory Mahoney, a professor of politics at East China Normal University in Shanghai, said Xi's comments would please those in Europe who'd hoped China would use its position as a "friend of Russia" to deter Moscow against nuclear threats.
"Xi's remarks are unambiguous here, against both the use and threats of use of nuclear weapons," he said. "That will be interpreted by some as a very important message."
Scholz is the first major European leader to visit China in more than two years, as Xi returns to in-person diplomacy after his long spell of self-imposed Covid isolation stifled such exchanges. The German leader, who is joined on the one-day trip by top executives from BASF, Volkswagen, Deutsche Bank and BioNTech, is also the first from the bloc to meet Xi after he clinched a precedent-defying third term in office last month.
The German leader said his trip came at a "time of great tension," as Russia's war in Ukraine challenged the rules-based order, and stressed the importance of face-to-face dialogue. "We can now talk concretely and directly with each other to respond to the challenges the world is facing and the bilateral relations between Europe and China," he said in a statement.
"Destroying political trust is easy, but rebuilding it is difficult, so it requires both sides to take care of it," Xi told Scholz, according to Xinhua. In a press briefing after meeting Premier Li Keqiang on Friday afternoon, Scholz said he'd urged China to use its influence over Russia to deter it from nuclear force.
Xi has engaged in a flurry of diplomacy this week, hosting top foreign leaders from Vietnam, Pakistan and Tanzania as he begins a third term focused on increasing China's global influence. The Chinese leader didn't leave his nation for two years after Covid emerged, a period that saw Beijing's ties with the West sour over Xi's crackdown on Hong Kong, treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang and military pressure on Taiwan.
Later this month, Xi is expected to expand that outreach campaign at major summits in Thailand and Indonesia, where he could sit down with President Joe Biden for the first time since the U.S. leader took power. That meeting could ease hostilities between the world's two largest economies, which have reached a new low during the pandemic.
While Xi seems to have eased his own virus restrictions, meeting dignitaries in person and appearing unmasked in public, the nation's Covid Zero policy remains in play. The German delegation had to take two PCR tests before landing in Beijing, and another on arrival, while workers wearing hazmat suits were seen rolling out a red carpet for Scholz.
Xi's efforts to solidify ties with Germany this week are part of a broader push to prevent relations with the European Union from further deteriorating. Last year, the EU halted an investment agreement with China after both sides traded sanctions over Xinjiang, where the US has accused Beijing of genocide. China denies such allegations.
Noah Barkin, managing editor of the Rhodium Group's China practice, said that while Scholz will likely view Xi's warning to Moscow on nuclear force as a victory, the Chinese leader still hadn't turned his back on Putin.
"The lessons of the past year are that Xi will stick with Putin through thick and thin," Barkin said, adding that Scholz's push to deepen economic ties with Beijing was at odds with his own government's aims. "It will raise questions among Germany's allies in Europe, the U.S. and Asia about where Berlin really stands."
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Iranians burn an Israeli and American flags during the 43rd anniversary of the U.S. expulsion from Iran, in Tehran, Iran November 4, 2022.
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi criticized Joe Biden, a day after the U.S. president vowed to "free Iran."
Images broadcast on state television showed anti-American demonstrations attended by tens of thousands of people across the country on the "National Day of Fighting Global Arrogance," while songs called for "Death to America" and schoolchildren carried banners in support of the seizure of the embassy.
Friday's pro-establishment demonstrations offered a stark contrast to the wave of protests sweeping the country since a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, died in morality police custody on Sept. 16 after being arrested for being inappropriately dressed.
Iran, which had been trying for over a year to strike a nuclear deal with world powers and get relief from sanctions that have increased hardships for many Iranians, has blamed the United States and other foreign enemies for the unrest, saying they want to destabilize the country.
Raisi described the protesters as "deceived traitors," adding: "I am telling Biden that Iran was freed 43 years ago."
Raisi's deputy, Mohammad Hosseini, called on security forces to "work swiftly to end the riots."
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Late goal gives UNH women's soccer an America East semifinal win over UMaine
By Larry Mahoney Bangor Daily News, Maine
The University of Maine women's soccer team's record-setting season came to an end on Thursday night.
Freshman midfielder Abbi Maier's goal with just 4:35 left in regulation gave the second-seeded University of New Hampshire Wildcats a 2-1 victory over the third-seeded Black Bears in their America East semifinal at Wildcat Stadium in Durham, New Hampshire.
Maier's game-winner was set up by All-AE second teamers Meghan Guarente and Emily Bini.
"It was a great goal," said UMaine coach Scott Atherley. "[UMaine left back] Emma Schneider went up to head the cross. She didn't misplay it. But it got just over her head and [Maier] was in the right spot."
He said that with exception of corner kicks, UNH hadn't really threatened them or had any extensive time in the UMaine penalty area in the second half.
Lossius, who scored the critical third goal in Sunday's quarterfinal win over the New Jersey Institute of Technology 19 seconds after NJIT had scored to cut the lead to 2-1, worked a give-and-go with Gorham freshman Madison Michaud before taking a couple touches and beating UNH goalie Cat Sheppard from just inside the penalty area.
It was Michaud's third assist of the season.
Atherley said his team played well and it was a "great game" with very little to choose between the two teams.
"It was an even game with three great goals and they had two of them," he said.
UMaine had an 11-9 edge in shot attempts but UNH put six shots on goal compared with UMaine's three.
Atherley said he was "extremely proud" of his team.
"We were picked to finish eighth [in the coaches' preseason poll]. We wound up with nine wins and the three losses are the fewest we've had since I've been here," said Atherley, who just concluded his 23rd season as the head coach.
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George Lopez has a 'new' sitcom
THE LEAST-INSPIRED sitcoms are often those based on the “real life” of their creators. They often ooze with a “you had to be there” vibe. Among the saddest TV traditions is the new sitcom for a star returning from decades of starring in other well-known comedies. Legends as iconic as Lucille Ball and Mary Tyler Moore wore out their welcome when they tried one sitcom too many.
Both bad traditions converge on “Lopez vs. Lopez” (8 p.m., NBC, TV-PG), starring George Lopez and his real-life daughter, Mayan. The series, centering on the reconciliation of a father and daughter, is about both stars’ real-life estrangement and slow road back to familial affection.
The series goes out of its way to play with social media. George has arrived at his daughter’s house to help renovate the kitchen, but ends up drinking too much beer and disappointing her again. Along the way, they make a TikTok video together. This is a good way to show that Lopez has progressed from his eponymous 2002-07 ABC sitcom. But the video uses War’s 1975 hit “Low Rider” as its music, so it’s not exactly breaking new ground.
“Lopez vs. Lopez” trades in a lot of intergenerational differences and Mayan’s loss of her Mexican identity. She undergoes therapy and talks about “triggers.” Her son is named Chance and her boyfriend is not exactly Mexican or macho. Lopez Sr. only dimly understands the language his daughter speaks. He originally thought Instagram was a “weed delivery service.” That’s about as clever and funny as this gets.
George Lopez has often been cast as “the Mexican guy,” and he has made the most of it. His ABC show was produced very specifically to fill a void back in the early part of this century when shows with Latino content were rare. The proliferation of series on cable and streaming in the decades since has more than filled that void. But “Lopez vs. Lopez” still strives to “represent” in the most obvious ways. Just in case you didn’t know her background, Mayan wears a sweatshirt sporting the logo “Phenomenally Latina” in the opening scene.
• Well beyond Lopez’s well-worn schtick, the ethnic diversity on streaming television is nothing short of staggering. Netflix has carved out a whole niche of South Korean comedies, romances and dramas.
Not to be outdone, Hulu will stream the biggest Hindi film of the year, “Brahmastra Part One: Shiva.” The epic is the first of a planned trilogy drawn from Hindu mythology. Not unlike “Star Wars” or the Marvel Comic Universe, the “Lord of the Rings” movies and “Harry Potter” franchise, these films will build upon each other in a self-referential manner dubbed “The Astraverse.”
“Shiva” opens in both theaters and on Hulu on Friday. It can be viewed with either subtitles or dubbed in English.
• Apple TV+ streams the second season of “The Mosquito Coast,” adapted from the 1981 novel by Paul Theroux.
• Netflix streams the long-awaited fourth season of “Manifest,” a “Lost”-like head-scratcher about passengers who return to their lives years after their departure date. “Manifest” aired its first three seasons on NBC.
• The Roku Channel streams the 2022 biopic “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” starring Daniel Radcliffe as the song parody king.
• An actress revisits some troubling times in “Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me” (Apple TV+).
• ABC turns its news division over to Disney/Marvel publicity as “20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda” (8 p.m., ABC).
• “Great Performances” (9 p.m., PBS) presents the New York Philharmonic’s reopening of the David Geffen Hall with a performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.
• Police protests hit close to home on “Blue Bloods” (10 p.m., CBS, TV-14).
Wynonna Ryder, Christian Slater and Shannen Doherty star in the 1988 satire “Heathers” (2 a.m., TCM). High School can be murder.
A flash mob robbery leaves a dead body behind on “S.W.A.T.” (8 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14) ... “WWE Friday Night Smackdown” (8 p.m., Fox, TV-14) ... A wrestler-turned-candidate glances back on “Young Rock” (8:30 p.m., NBC, TV-14).
A startled horse complicates an evacuation on “Fire Country” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-PG) ... “Dateline” (9 p.m., NBC) ... “20/20” (9 p.m., ABC).
Jimmy Fallon welcomes Mariah Carey and Marcus Mumford on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC) ... Vice President Kamala Harris, Geena Davis and Elena Bonomo visit “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC, r).
Chris Pratt, Taylor Kitsch and James Bay are scheduled to appear on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” (12:37 a.m., CBS).
Kash Patel, a loyal aide to Donald Trump and former White House deputy, faced questions before a grand jury Thursday as part of a criminal investigation into the former president's possession of classified records more than 18 months after he left office, according to a person familiar with …
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The Manchester Expeditionary Brigade celebrates the U.S. Marine Corps’ birthday in 2018. This year's event will be held Thursday at the Derryfield Country Club in Manchester.
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The event, open to all Marines, family and friends, begins at 11 a.m. with a social hour and concludes at 2 p.m. with a Marine Corps memorabilia raffle.
Guest of honor Gold Star Mother Karen Staley will speak about a proposed memorial monument dedicated to military suicide loss to be added to the Memorial Walkway at the New Hampshire Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen.
Staley's son, USMC Cpl. Richard J. Staley Jr., who served in Iraq in 2003 and died in 2015, suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
The new monument will be the first on the Memorial Walkway that will be dedicated to those lost to suicide.
Guests are invited to donate an unwrapped new toy for the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots campaign.
Reservations are required. Tickets are $45. Contact Paul Pouliot at (603) 296-0030 or ManchExpBrigade@gmail.com.
VA offers more than $11M in grant funding to provide legal services for homeless Veterans
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State troopers are asking for the public’s help to find out who detonated a pipe bomb in Salisbury Thursday afternoon.
Troopers were called to the area shortly after 1:30 p.m. for a report of an explosion, and found fragments of the device and remnants of “explosive incendiary matter,” police said.
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Owner and CEO of Twitter, Inc. Elon Musk arrives at the 29th Annual Baron Investment Conference in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 4, 2022.
SAN FRANCISCO - As dawn rose on the city Twitter has made home, employees here awoke to a new era for a company that has been lauded for its open-minded culture, its work-from-anywhere policy and perks like a monthly day of rest.
Elon Musk began his overhaul of the newly privatized Twitter on Friday with his first round of layoffs, which struck across the workforce -- impacting teams including sales, engineering and product, and trust and safety and legal. In all, around half the staff was expected to be cut, casualties of Musk's debt-financed $44 billion purchase of the site, which is expected to saddle the company with bills the new CEO will face pressure to quickly address.
On Friday, Musk alluded to those pressures in a tweet which said Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue because of activists pressuring advertisers. He reiterated that nothing has changed with the company's moderation.
"Extremely messed up! They're trying to destroy free speech in America," he tweeted.
Some workers said as early as Thursday night their access to internal systems such as email and messaging service Slack had been cut - indicating they were laid off.
Workers had been told they would receive an email by 9 a.m. Pacific time, with the subject line reading: "Your Role at Twitter." If they were let go, a notification would go to their personal emails. If they were retained, they'd receive a ping in their work inboxes.
"We acknowledge this is an incredibly challenging experience to go through, whether or not you are impacted," a Thursday night email said, the first known companywide acknowledgment of the new regime. It was signed, "Twitter."
This version of the company "isn't what we all signed up for," the person said. The person described the new environment as "cruel, toxic, padding Elon's debt pockets."
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State police are asking for the public’s help to find out who detonated a pipe bomb in Salisbury Thursday afternoon.
State troopers were called to the area shortly after 1:30 p.m. for a report of an explosion, and found fragments of the device and remnants of “explosive incendiary matter,” police said.
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On Monday and Tuesday, Filotimo Casino in Manchester, at 1279 South Willow St. will be holding a job fair for key positions including human resources, machine attendants, player services representatives, security officers, surveillance officers, marketing managers and environmental service attendants.
On-the-spot interviews will be held from 12 to 4 p.m. and 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday.
The Dover location will be holding its job fair at 887b Central Avenue in Dover 12 to 4 p.m. Wednesday and 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday.
“We have experienced tremendous growth and are proud to be able to offer quality positions in this growing industry," Filotimo owner Dick Anagnost said in a statement.
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Twenty percent of proceeds from all dine-in and takeout orders from the 845 Lafayette Rd. pizza restaurant will be donated to the cause.
The money raised will help 21 University of New Hampshire students pay for flights, lodging, in-country transportation, paying support staff, security, and medical supplies.
Since 2008, Global Brigades Inc., the student-led nonprofit movement for global health, has helped communities in Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
The nonprofit assists communities with water and sanitation infrastructure, economic development and sustainable health systems.
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UNH students host fundraiser Nov. 14 for Panama medical mission trip | Education | unionleader.com
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The state is proposing a new forensic psychiatric hospital to be built on the grounds of New Hampshire Hospital in Concord. A virtual public information session will be held on Monday, Nov. 14 at 6 p.m.
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Members of the public can ask questions and submit comments about the state’s proposal to build a forensic psychiatric hospital in Concord, during an online information session set for Monday, Nov. 14.
The virtual session, which begins at 6 p.m., will provide an update to neighbors and the public on the construction of a secure forensic facility adjacent to New Hampshire Hospital.
The new 24-bed hospital is designed to provide “skilled psychiatric treatment in a safe, secure, and therapeutic environment for forensic patients,” according to a statement from the Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Administrative Services and New Hampshire Hospital.
More information about the proposed facility, and a link to the Zoom session on Nov. 14, is at: bit.ly/3heU9Ij.
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The Powerball drawing Saturday night is expected to set a record, with lottery officials estimating the prize will be $1.6 billion -- or a $782.4 million lump sum for a single winner, according to the New Hampshire Lottery.
The New Hampshire Lottery officials say Powerball ticket sales have been "off the charts," both at in-person retailers and online.
New Hampshire was projecting $6.5 million in Powerball sales for the week of Oct. 30 to Nov. 5.
The director of the New Hampshire Lottery, Charlie McIntyre, said the Powerball jackpot was exciting.
“While we are certainly caught up in the excitement of this huge jackpot, we are also constantly reminding our players to play responsibly,” McIntyre said in a statement.
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Kevin Spacey leaves federal court in Manhattan following the first day of actor Anthony Rapp's civil trial against him on Oct. 6 in New York.
Spacey, a former Old Vic artistic director, has separately pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual assault against a trio of men in London, where he previously lived while working at the theater.
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Amanda Mitchell, 34, of Manchester
A Manchester woman who stabbed her 12-year-old daughter in the neck was sentenced to between 12 and 30 years in the New Hampshire State Prison on Friday after taking a plea agreement, with the potential to earn time off the sentence by completing mental health programs.
Prosecutors said they sought a plea deal to spare the daughter, who survived, the potentially re-traumatizing experience of testifying about her attack in February 2021 -- and because a psychological evaluation of the mother, Amanda Mitchell, persuaded Hillsborough County prosecutors to drop a charge of attempted murder. But the victim's father and the Manchester police chief were both unhappy about the agreement.
She slashed at the girl’s throat, the girl told police, according to the affidavit, until the girl was able to slip past her out the door. Mitchell stabbed the girl’s neck, just under her ear, and the girl wound up with cuts on her hand and arm.
That night was chaos, said Jonathan Mitchell, the girl’s father, making a statement to the court Friday.
It was snowing when he got a call in the early hours of the morning. He went to his estranged wife’s apartment above a North End insurance office, then to the Elliot Hospital to be at his daughter's side.
“It’s hard, getting a call and going to see your daughter in the hospital,” Jonathan Mitchell said.
“That’s just how we feel about this case,” he said.
Over a months-long negotiation, Sweeney said, prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed that Mitchell would plead to two counts of first-degree assault, with a prison sentence of between 12 and 30 years. After waiting in jail for almost two years before the sentencing, Mitchell will end up serving 10 years in state prison -- or even less, if she receives time credit for participating in rehabilitative programs.
Mitchell sat still during the hearing, shackled in an orange jail uniform, wavy strawberry-blond hair hanging down her back.
“Yes,” Mitchell said quietly, she understood.
“This is a really awful case,” Anderson said “This is just a tragic set of circumstances.”
“If that’s not attempted murder I don’t know what is. It’s a completely unacceptable sentence," Aldenberg said.
He said testifying would have been difficult for the child, but said, “Make them make the argument,” Aldenberg said, gesturing at public defenders Brian Civale and Michael Hammon, who had represented Mitchell, as they walked toward a stairwell.
“He can shake his head all he wants, as he walks away,” Aldenberg said as they passed.
The state public defenders’ office does not typically make statements to the press about cases.
“That’s for the defense to make that argument,” Aldenberg said, adding, “I’m extremely sensitive to mental health.”
Aldenberg also said he did not know if Mitchell had been involved with the Division of Children, Youth and Families.
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After delivering a benediction Friday at Trestle View Park in downtown Franklin, Michael Curry, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, poses for a photo with Franklin Mayor Jo Brown as Pastor Kate Harmon Siberine of The Episcopal Mission of Franklin at St. Jude’s Church, ascends to the park’s upper level.
FRANKLIN – Michael Curry, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, brought his love of God and of the Buffalo Bills to The Three Rivers City on Friday, blessing the growth of a mission “planted” at St. Jude's Church; the municipal Trestle View Park; and Brothers Donuts.
A native of Buffalo, Curry, is the second-highest official in the worldwide Episcopal Church after the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Curry will be in the Granite State through Sunday.
On Friday, in addition to his visit to Franklin, Curry followed the start of the 220th Convention of the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire, which was held virtually.
On Saturday, at the Capital Center for the Arts, Curry will join New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop A. Robert Hirschfeld for a celebration of the Eucharist and a panel discussion.
Founded in 1900 and closed in 2002, St. Jude’s reopened in 2019 as The Episcopal Mission of Franklin, said Pastor Kate Harmon Siberine, who added that the Mission was “extremely happy” to have Curry stop by.
Earlier, in welcoming Curry to Franklin, Harmon Siberine said the Mission “has come to life in remarkable ways,” paralleling its rise to that of Franklin.
Earlier this year, the city marked the completion of Phase I of Mill City Park, which is located on the Winnipesaukee River at Trestle View Park and is the only whitewater park in New England. Franklin, particularly the downtown, is also seeing a significant influx of both new businesses and housing.
As the economic development of Franklin continues, so does its spiritual development said, Harmon Siberine.
Sitting in a pew at St. Jude’s, Curry fielded questions from some of the two-dozen people gathered for the occasion, the first of which was about Curry’s take on the glazed donuts from Brothers Donuts that he had partaken of, before coming to the Mission.
“These are the finest donuts in the country,” Curry said with a huge smile on his face, noting that the donuts may be the “feast” referred to by Isaiah in the Old Testament.
Curry was then asked why it is important for the Episcopal Church to have a physical presence in communities, like the Mission in Franklin.
“Sometimes,” said Curry, “it’s important to have a constant reminder that God has not abandoned us,” especially in difficult times.
Whether a church, mission, mosque or synagogue, he said “Holy places are a constant reminder that God is still in our lives, and I don’t know about you, but I need that reminder.”
Growing up in Buffalo, Curry said “I actually saw a city die,” and though it would never “come back to life,” but it did.
Hirschfeld complemented Curry on his sermons, which stress that Jesus Christ is always among us, not just when people ask “what would Jesus do” in a given situation, and thanked Curry for his directness.
“You don’t hide the hard things from us,” Hirschfeld told Curry.
As to the future of the Episcopal Church in Franklin, New Hampshire and beyond, “What’s happening here and in the diocese, I think, is reflective of a new future,” said Curry. He cited a sermon he had heard in which the speaker affirmed that “Christ will come again, but the 1950s will not.”
Like in Franklin, where old things are being reworked into new ones, so the Episcopal Church and many other Christian churches, including during the COVID-19 pandemic, found creative, new ways to keep in touch with the faithful via technology, said Curry.
“There is a future,” Curry summed up, “because there is a God and God is not finished with us yet.”
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To the Editor: Sen. Maggie Hassan’s shots at Don Bolduc’s abortion position are patently false. I wondered why she’s taking desperate wild shots on an issue that ranks fourth in voter concern behind inflation, crime and immigration. Perhaps it’s because of her horrible voting record on the first three — virtually lock-step with the swamp creatures in DC. That the legislation she’s supported has been disastrous for the United States is self-evident with inflation, crime and illegal immigration breaking all records and the rule of law seemingly dismissed entirely.
New Hampshire needs a senator that has the courage and tenacity necessary to stand up to the swamp and use the U.S. Constitution and financial common sense as the templates for solutions. Don Bolduc has consistently delivered on his oath to uphold the Constitution and, as evidenced by his five Bronze Stars and two Purple Hearts (among many other medals) he has more than enough courage to do the right thing.
Maggie’s unseemly attacks demonstrate a character that is in sharp contrast to that of the general’s. We need to clean out the swamp and only honest outsiders, like Don Bolduc, can accomplish the job.
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By Jim Sullivan The Daily News of Newburyport, Mass.
NEWBURYPORT, Massachusetts — A recent survey found that most people do not believe the Merrimack River is healthy and one group is looking to start moving the area toward a river rescue.
ACES's more expansive survey involved over 550 general users of the river and was conducted throughout the 117-mile Merrimack River watershed in 2021 and was recently posted on the group's website.
The survey showed that 95% of those who responded are concerned about the river's condition, while 73% believe it is unhealthy to be in, or to use the water as a drinking source. That figure alone is concerning to ACES members considering over 600,000 people get their drinking water from the river.
"In this era, when nobody agrees on anything, the statistics are so startling when it comes to how many people feel the same way. They think the water shouldn't be drank. The EPA says it is pretty good but these people don't believe that," he said.
"There are a lot of developments throwing water out of parking lots and into the river," Currier said.
"This is way of starting the fire and getting everything going. The people are highly concerned their voice has not been heard," Currier said.
"This has to be organized in a logical way, so that the funding that is out there can come into the watershed and fix the problem," he said.
"We've got to stand up and say this needs to be fixed." he said.
"There are a lot of angles to this that are bigger than we are. We are just the little guys at the end of the line that are alerted to the problem," Martino said.
Those interested in seeing the survey can find it online here: https://bit.ly/3U5nweX.
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By Joshua Murdock Missoulian, Mont.
Answering that age-old question is vital for weather forecasters and climatologists, hydrologists, farmers and ranchers, municipal and agricultural water supply managers, transportation officials, tourism and recreation professionals, and anyone wondering whether to don ski boots or muck boots.
Now, a new citizen-science initiative aims to increase understanding of local rain-snow transitions, with the goal of better predicting them. This winter, the program seeks volunteer observers from Missoula and across western Montana, where winter is predicted to be unusually snowy. Unless it's rainy.
The program, Mountain Rain or Snow, came about primarily because satellites, a cornerstone of modern weather forecasting and monitoring, can struggle to answer the basic question of whether it's raining or snowing. When forecasters detect a possible rain-snow transition in precipitation, the program will send an alert text encouraging volunteers to use a web app (no download required) to report whether they observe rain, snow or a mix at their location.
According to the United Nations, an estimated 7,500 satellites crowd around planet earth just beyond its atmosphere but still barely within the grasp of earth's gravity. The satellites provide for internet access and telecommunications, high-resolution surveillance and imagery, weapons systems, geographic data collection, and weather forecasting. Despite all they can do, the satellites that monitor precipitation are not particularly good at figuring out when rainfall transitions to snowfall, or snow to rain, when air temperatures are around freezing.
And temperatures are often around freezing in western Montana. According to National Weather Service data from 1991 — 2020, average daily low temperatures around Missoula are in the 30s or colder from October through May — eight months out of the year — and Missoula spends four months of the year with daily highs near or slightly above freezing. Missoula's average daily high in November is 39.9 degrees. The average daily high is 30.9 degrees in December, 31.6 degrees in January, and 37 degrees in February.
"A threshold of 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit) for rain-snow transition isn't necessarily accurate all of the time ... but the nature of that transition varies by region," said Meghan Collins, an associate research scientist in science communication at the Desert Research Institute and the engagement leader for Mountain Rain or Snow. "Snow can fall above freezing. It's not a change in the laws of physics — it's often a factor of weather, and we see it a lot in our mountain regions."
Satellites stumped
The regionally variable nature of rain-snow transition means that rain may shift to snow at a different temperature depending on location, Collins explained during a Pacific Northwest Drought Early Warning System online seminar last week.
Data from the program last winter show that in the mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire, if there's precipitation when the air temperature is exactly freezing — 32 degrees Fahrenheit — there are equal chances of the precipitation being rain or snow. Below freezing, snow is more likely. Above freezing, rain is more likely. But in the Sierra, precipitation that falls when air is 32 degrees comes down as snow about 75% of the time, and snow is more likely than rain even when it's slightly warmer than freezing. In the southern Rockies, snow is more likely than rain up to about 40 degrees, and snow is almost certain when precipitation occurs at 32 degrees or colder.
But satellites are often wrong about when that transition takes places, she said. They errantly see rain as snow, or snow as rain, and they're even wrong in different ways in different places. Satellites may more often see rain as snow at 31 degrees in one region, while more often mistaking snow as rain at 35 degrees in another place. In the Northeast U.S., for example, they often missed freezing rain.
"Right now, they don't do as good of a job as ground-based observers at partitioning rain-snow mix," Collins said in a video call Thursday. "This is a greater challenge in arid, high-elevation regions," where low humidity and other traits of dry mountain climates "can make the snow melt more slowly as it falls."
Those errors have real-world implications.
"Intuitively we know that an inch of snow is different than an inch of rain," Collins said. "They might be forecasting rain at 35, 38 degrees Fahrenheit, but actually we've got snow flurries and there's fender-benders everywhere."
It's not just weather forecasters who are interested. Collins said she's heard "a lot of interest from avalanche communities. The elevation at which that rain-snow transition happens can have big implications."
Extra eyes
That's where volunteer "citizen scientists" come in: "The best way to get these observations is real people," Collins said on Monday.
"These patterns aren't consistent across regions," she said Thursday. "To improve our estimates across different areas, we need locally place-based data." And the more data the group collects, the better resolution estimates they can develop over time.
The data and the group's estimates — trying to figure out when, where, at what elevation or in what conditions rain will shift to snow in a particular region — will be available to regional avalanche forecast centers, Collins said. She said that she's already been in communication with the Flathead Avalanche Center and hopes to also work with the West-Central Montana Avalanche Center, based in Missoula.
"We work in numerous mountain ranges from coast to coast, and this year we're interested in growing our observer base in Montana," she said. "That's part of what we'd like to give back to avalanche centers: If they request the data, they can see it."
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Jesse Edwards and his two older brothers didn’t find the game of basketball on a playground or in a gym. They found it playing video games.
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By Mike Waters syracuse.com
A basketball court is a bit harder to find.
“I was 13 or 14 years old when I first started looking at LeBron James videos,’’ Kai, the middle brother, said. “I found NBA2K and I liked it. I had an ability where if I liked a sport, I could get Rens and Jesse to play with me.’’
The three Edwards boys were tall and athletic. Kai had previously gotten his brothers into soccer, cycling, track and tennis. Rens excelled at soccer. Jesse’s specialty was the high jump. Kai became a national level tennis player who visited with famed tennis coach Nick Bollettieri at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida.
But now, he fixated on basketball.
“Kai used to have a different thing every week,’’ Jesse, who is five years younger than Rens and two years shy of Kai, said. “Cycling. Tennis. Whatever. But basketball kind of stuck with all of us. That’s where we ended up.’’
Basketball suited the Edwards brothers. Rens is 6-foot-6. Kai is 6-9 and Jesse is just shy of 7-foot. They get their height from both their father and mother. David, a native of London who played cricket at a high level, is 6-foot-7. Simone, who grew up in Amsterdam, is 6-foot.
The three brothers found a basketball court and, for up to three hours a day, they would go there and mimic the highlights from the NBA videos.
Jesse Edwards is now a 6-foot-11 senior center at Syracuse University, but back then, his two older brothers were both bigger and taller.
“He had to learn how to play guard and defend someone taller,’’ his father, David, said. “They’re brothers and competitive, right? They didn’t go easy on him.’’
Rens, the oldest of the three brothers, seemed to be able to pick up any sport quickly and play it well. But he suffered two injuries, a torn ACL playing soccer and a ruptured Achilles on the basketball court, that curtailed his ability to play at a high level.
Kai, ever the adventurous one of the three, decided to forgo his budding tennis career in favor of basketball. He sought to join Amsterdam’s Apollo athletic club – and got his first lesson in basketball.
“I went to sign up and the person there told me, ‘I’m sorry, but we already had summer tryouts,’ ” Kai said. “I didn’t even know there were tryouts. I thought I could just go and join. I had to wait six months for the next tryout.’’
Kai eventually tried out and made the Apollo Amsterdam club team. Jesse, of course, followed his older brother. The learning curve was steep. He had no concept of help defense. Screening was something he had never done in his recreation of NBA videos with his brothers.
“Jesse learned everything from scratch,’’ his mom, Simone, said.
Now hooked on the game, the brothers would stay up to 2 a.m. to watch NBA games.
Their fun pickup games began to change.
“As soon as he started growing,’’ Rens said, “we couldn’t stop him anymore.’’
Kai, a 6-foot-9 power forward, possessed raw skills. He took an opportunity to go play at the renowned Canarias Basketball Academy, a school located in the Canary Islands. Former Syracuse center Bourama Sidibe is among the dozens of international players who made their way to colleges in the United States through the Canarias Academy.
Kai wound up at Northern Colorado. Jesse remained in Amsterdam, playing basketball.
Around Christmas of Kai’s sophomore year, Jesse, his mom and an uncle visited Kai in Northern Colorado.
Jesse was blown away with the college atmosphere.
“Jesse looked at me and said, ‘Mom, this is what I want,’ ” Simone recalled. “If I got the chance to do this, I would love that.’’
Kai said the Northern Colorado coaches made his family feel welcome and offered encouragement to Jesse, who stood about 6-feet, 6-inches at the time.
Keep working, they told him. Maybe one day he could make it.
Two years later, Jesse had grown 5 inches to 6-foot-11. But, he remained well off the radar of college coaches in the United States.
His coach at Apollo, Wierd Goedee, was hoping Edwards would remain in Holland and continue working with the country’s junior national team.
Then, out of the blue, Edwards received an email from Jason Smith, the basketball coach at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Smith had heard of an athletic but unrefined center in Amsterdam from coaches at Drake and Georgia Tech who had visited the Netherlands.
“I wasn’t looking at America at that point,’’ Edwards said, “I was looking to play with youth teams in Europe. Then that email came.’’
Edwards and his parents checked out Brewster’s credentials. The school had sent dozens of players on to college and many to the pros.
“I was talking to Jason about Kai Jones or Kadary Richmond or some other player at Brewster,’’ Syracuse assistant coach Allen Griffin said. “Jason was saying he had another kid coming from the Netherlands that we should check out.’’
But Edwards never made it to Brewster. His paperwork to get the proper visa wasn’t processed properly. Brewster had also reached its limit on granting scholarships. Edwards remained in the Netherlands through the fall of 2018.
Smith suggested the Edwards family look into another basketball prep school – IMG in Florida, the same school it had visited years earlier when Kai was still playing tennis.
Jesse arrived in Florida that January. The secret was soon out.
“Once he went to IMG, the coaches at my school were like, ‘Get him on the phone with us,’ ” said Kai, who was still at Northern Colorado. “I was like, ‘I don’t think that’s going to happen.’ ”
It didn’t take long for word about Edwards to spread among college coaches.
Griffin, the Syracuse assistant, got a call from Brian Nash, IMG’s basketball director. Nash had previously been Griffin’s boss when he was the head coach at St. Francis (N.Y.) College in Brooklyn.
“When Jesse didn’t make it to Brewster, honestly, I had forgotten about him until Brian called me,’’ Griffin said. “He said, ‘You need to come look at this kid.’ ”
Nash thought Edwards’ combination of length and athleticism matched what Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim and his staff look for in a center. Griffin flew down to IMG to watch Edwards play. He returned to Syracuse and met with Boeheim.
“Coach,’’ Griffin said, “he’s very intriguing.’’
Schools like Vanderbilt, Stanford and Providence started recruiting Edwards. Ivy League schools had an appeal as Edwards was a very good student. But Georgia Tech appeared to have an edge.
David and Simone scheduled a trip to the States in the spring of 2019. On the docket was a trip to Atlanta and an official visit to Georgia Tech.
They booked another trip to Syracuse, right on the heels of the Georgia Tech visit.
“It was April 1 and super cold,” David remembered. “We came from sunshine in Atlanta into snow in Syracuse.’’
Their flight arrived late. It was almost midnight by the time they got off the plane and made it through the terminal at Hancock International Airport.
“Jim Boeheim was there, waiting for us,’’ David said. “The fact that the coach turns up at the airport at midnight to welcome you; that makes a difference.’’
Jesse committed to Syracuse less than a week later.
When he first joined the Apollo club in Amsterdam, there was another aspect to team basketball that he had to learn – playing time and sitting the bench.
“He didn’t know about being on the bench during a game,’’ his dad said.
Edwards averaged just 2.4 points per game as a freshman. That figure dipped to 1.9 the following year. He played behind Sidibe and Marek Dolezaj during those first two seasons in Syracuse.
“That was our timeline,’’ Griffin said. “I had told Coach (Boeheim) that in a couple years he could be really good. Jesse understood that, but I know it was still hard for him.’’
Edwards hit Griffin’s timeline on cue last season. He became Syracuse’s starting center and averaged 12.0 points and 6.5 rebounds per game. His 2.8 blocks per game tied for the lead in the ACC along with Duke’s Mark Williams.
A wrist injury late in the season derailed Edwards’ push for the ACC’s Most Improved Player award.
Surgery repaired Edwards’ wrist. He spent the summer with the Netherlands’ national team in the FIBA European World Cup qualifying tournament.
The guy who was first introduced to basketball by watching highlight clips and playing video games returns to Syracuse ready to produce a few highlights of his own this season.
“I’ll think we’ll see him take it up another notch,’’ Griffin said. “We want to see him be a force defensively. We want to see him pick up where he left off rebounding the ball. He’s pretty good offensively, and I think we’ll try to go to him a little bit more.”
Kai is in his third year in the Spanish pro league. He is currently with Melilla Baloncestro, a team located in Morocco. Rens is now a human resources consultant living in Amsterdam.
Jesse, the youngest brother, the one who once had to figure out ways to score over his two older siblings, is on the cusp of his senior year at Syracuse with the prospect of his own pro career in the not too distant future.
“It’s a really random story of how I ended up here,’’ he said. “I could’ve stuck with athletics and done the high jump. But I liked basketball and Kai sort of showed me the way to the States. Then I get a random email out of the blue from Brewster.
“But if I had gone to Brewster, I probably would have been on the bench more than I would’ve liked,’’ he continued. “I was really disappointed when I couldn’t go there, but it probably worked out for the best because I end up at IMG. And here I am.’'
In an ode to his Dutch roots and the place where he started on this basketball journey, Edwards wears the No. 14 in honor of Johan Cruyff, whose image remains on the mural in Edwards’ Amsterdam neighborhood.
“Everything just seemed to come together and get me to this point,’' Edwards said. “I appreciate that and I’m still working to take advantage of that.’’
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Curdled affections propel 'Dangerous Liaisons'
STARZ OFFERS the newest version of “Dangerous Liaisons” (8 p.m. Sunday, TV-MA), this time in series form. The premium cable outfit is so confident in this stylish and sexy period piece that it commissioned a second season before the premiere.
Alice Englert stars as the young Camille, a refined woman born into comfort but reduced to life as a courtesan — and that’s putting it politely. She’s bound by debts to her madam and consigned to a grim life in a house of ill repute. She’s besotted with Pascal (Nicholas Denton), a dashing young mapmaker out to capture every corner of 1783 Paris. He vows to marry her, even though he’s about as penniless as Camille. Like her, he was born into the finer things, but was cut out of his rich father’s will by a scheming stepmother.
Unbeknownst to Camille, Pascal moonlights from his low-paying cartography gig and operates as the calculating Valmont, bringing sexual ecstasy to older women, among them Genevieve de Merteuil (Leslie Manville, “Magpie Murders”). Valmont hopes to use love letters from his conquests to blackmail them into providing the means for a life of comfort, but his plot is foiled when Camille grows wise to his misadventures, thanks to her faithful maid, Victoire (Kosar Ali). Camille’s rage and Merteuil’s sense of betrayal fuel the elaborate schemes of vengeance that animate the ongoing saga.
It remains to be seen if the 1782 book by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos can withstand seasons of serialization. Nobody is particularly likable, and the opening episode is rather slow to build. But that allows viewers to soak in all the sumptuous scenery and costumes of French aristocracy in the last years before the storming of the Bastille. There’s a lot to behold.
While many may know this story from the 1988 film starring Glenn Close and John Malkovich, it has been adapted numerous times. French director Roger Vadim set it in a decadent jazz-soaked modern milieu in his 1959 version starring Jeanne Moreau. Milos Forman’s “Valmont” arrived in 1989. The 1999 movie “Cruel Intentions” turned the story into a teen melodrama featuring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Reese Witherspoon. Catherine Deneuve starred in the French miniseries in 2003. It has been turned into an opera and has inspired episodes of “Supergirl,” “Arrow,” “The Vampire Diaries” and “Hidden Palms.”
• Like a switch flipped after the last trick-or-treater departs, everything changes at the Lifetime network. Gone are the Saturday-night thrillers involving deranged cheerleaders and unfaithful spouses to make room for romantic holiday fare, movies like “Merry Swissmas” (8 p.m. Saturday, TV-PG), about a busy architect finding an understanding single father amid alpine splendor.
This season’s holiday Hallmark-ization of Lifetime coincides with an agreement between Hallmark and Peacock. In a first, the streaming platform will offer a hub for live Hallmark content as well as on-demand access to past movies and shows. Peacock will offer access to Hallmark and its associated channels Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, and Hallmark Drama.
• Lifetime isn’t the only cable network to kick off Christmas before frost has claimed the Halloween pumpkin. The Food Network premieres “Christmas Cookie Challenge” (8 p.m. Sunday, TV-G) and “Holiday Wars” (9 p.m. Sunday, TV-G).
• The four-part docuseries “Spector” (9 p.m. Sunday, Showtime, TV-MA) recalls the sensational trial of legendary music producer Phil Spector for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson, found dead in his home.
Al Pacino portrayed the delusional Spector, wild hair and all, in a 2013 made-for-cable movie on rival HBO. It will be interesting to see if this four-hour treatment offers anything new or merely demonstrates that viewers have abandoned scripted drama for bingeable nonfiction.
• College football action includes Florida State at Miami (7:30 p.m., ABC) and Clemson at Notre Dame (7:30 p.m., NBC).
• The Philadelphia Phillies and Houston Astros meet in Game 6 of the World Series (8 p.m., Fox).
• A woman’s prospects change when a cable outlet shoots a holiday movie in her hometown in the 2022 romance “Lights, Camera, Christmas” (8 p.m., Hallmark, TV-G).
• Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Adrien Brody and Ruth Wilson star in the 2022 mystery comedy “See How They Run” (8 p.m., HBO), which uses the 1950s production of Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap” as the scene of a murder.
• Amy Schumer hosts “Saturday Night Live” (11:30 p.m., NBC, TV-14), featuring musical guest Steve Lacy.
• Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (7:30 p.m., CBS): Social media and political divisiveness; New York copes with a political stunt using migrants as pawns; the worldwide “prepare” phenomenon.
• Dissension in the ranks on “The Walking Dead” (8 p.m., AMC, TV-MA).
• If required, the Philadelphia Phillies and Houston Astros meet in Game 7 of the World Series (8 p.m., Fox). If not, look for “The Masked Singer” and “Lego Masters.”
• The Kansas City Chiefs host the Tennessee Titans in NFL action (8:15 p.m., NBC).
• An editor communes with the spirit of the character of her murdered author’s last book on “Magpie Murders” on “Masterpiece” (9 p.m., PBS, TV-14, check local listings).
• “The Toys That Built America” (9 p.m., History, TV-PG) profiles Marvin Glass, a visionary behind the iconic Chattering Teeth toy and a board game based on a mouse trap.
• Two local girls insinuate themselves into the lives of a rich clientele at a posh Sicilian resort in the satire “The White Lotus” (9 p.m., HBO, TV-MA).
• Lestat engages in a decades-long effort to reconcile with Louis on “Interview With the Vampire” (10 p.m., AMC, TV-MA).
Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn and Carroll O’Connor star in the stylish 1967 thriller “Point Blank” (6:15 p.m. Saturday, TCM, TV-14), directed by John Boorman.
A slick entrepreneur may have been a shooter’s intended victim on “East New York” (8 p.m., CBS, r, TV-PG) ... Two episodes of “48 Hours” (9 p.m. and 10 p.m., CBS).
“Celebrity Jeopardy!” (8 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) ... A mother’s peculiar behavior attracts attention on “FBI” (8:30 p.m., CBS, TV-14).
“Celebrity Wheel of Fortune” (9 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) ... A personal connection may save a witness on “East New York” (9:30 p.m., CBS, TV-14) ... A shooting victim may have already been dead on “The Rookie” (10 p.m., ABC, TV-14) ... A murdered man’s wife flees the scene on “NCIS: Los Angeles” (10:30 p.m., CBS, TV-14).
Today's craft brewing landscape is punctuated by the commodity of newness. Loud, bright labels shout from shelves. Heavily hyped beer releases encourage people to flock to breweries for cans whose contents are actually quite similar - often containing the same, trendy hops of last week's rel…
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Kenya Airline Pilots Association (KALPA) secretary general Murithi Nyagah and other pilots react as he addresses a news conference during the strike of Kenya Airways pilots, organised by KALPA, near the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi on Saturday.
NAIROBI - Kenya Airways on Saturday warned its striking pilots they could be dismissed if they do not return to work immediately as industrial action led to the cancellation of dozens of flights and left thousands of passengers stranded.
The pilots at one of Africa's largest carriers downed tools from 6 a.m. local time on Saturday, affecting business and leisure travelers at one of Africa's most important aviation hubs.
Kenya Airways apologized to passengers in a statement and said it would do its best to minimize the inconvenience, which could include rebooking them onto alternative flights.
Before the action, the company had warned the strike could jeopardize its recovery from the pandemic, resulting in losses of at least 300 million shillings ($2.5 million) a day.
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An aerial view of gantry cranes, shipping containers, and freight railway trains ahead of a possible strike if there is no deal with the rail worker unions, at the Union Pacific Los Angeles (UPLA) Intermodal Facility rail yard in Commerce, California, on Sept. 15.
WASHINGTON — A labor union representing about 4,900 rail workers said on Saturday that members narrowly ratified a tentative contract agreement with freight railroads in the United States.
The union said it was “confident that this is the best deal for our members” and said it “will continue to amplify the deficiencies in the carriers’ sick leave and attendance policies.”
IAM looks “forward to sitting down with the carriers to find a solution to the overtime policies in our industry.”
The National Carriers’ Conference Committee (NCCC), which represents freight railroads in labor talks, said unions “have repeatedly agreed that short-term absences would be unpaid in favor of higher compensation for days worked and more generous sickness benefits for longer absences.”
Last week, more than 300 groups including the National Retail Federation and National Association of Manufacturers on urged President Joe Biden’s involvement to help avoid a potential rail strike.
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Mount Washington Commission chairman Jeb Bradley has made it clear that the natural environment at New Hampshire’s highest point must be protected even as services for its many visitors are maintained. He and his fellow commissioners say that the summit master plan they adopted last month will be guided in part by an environmental assessment study that they expect will be funded in the next legislative session.
It can be a rare day, however, when things are clear for long atop Mount Washington. Bradley is likely to be the next president of the state Senate. He will have his hands full and we understand he will step down from the commission.
Just how the promised environmental study will be used is going to require skill and good faith from commission members and oversight from the people. As member and state Rep. Karen Umberger told the group, adopting the plan “doesn’t mean we don’t have a lot of work to do.”
That work is inevitably going to mean displeasing opposing interests. Some hardcore environmentalists want to make New Hampshire’s lofty peak strictly off-limits to humans. Some commercial interests want to keep expanding visits until there isn’t an inch of space left for more.
Realists fall in between those poles. Auto Road commission representative Howard Wemyss understands that, “you just can’t keep growing the number of people there.”
That is a key point. Numbers from the Auto Road and Cog Railway are easily known, and growing. It surprises us that no one has found a practical way to count the number of hikers who tackle that climb every year. Hikers have a special interest in preserving the environment. We doubt many of them would object if asked to sign in at the summit.
The environmental assessment will be instructive in determining what the overall numbers should be.
Meanwhile, the Legislature should look at expanding the commission’s purview to include not just the summit but the overall mountain, which is one of New Hampshire’s precious gems. It was fine 150 years ago for the Legislature to grant the Cog Railway a right-of-way to the summit and “to the moon.” Times have changed.
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You can find one on your ballot Nov. 8. There you will find a choice, a Republican and a Democrat, contending for “Register of Probate” in your county. But as New Hampshire veteran politicos Donna Sytek of Salem and Windham Rep. Robert Lynn, a retired chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, have pointed out, it is an office without portfolio. Rather, these days you are voting to give one or the other candidate 100 bucks and a resume line, no work required other than what it takes to get elected. Zip. It’s not even an appendix to the body politic.
Yet, when you read Question 1 on your ballot you may want to scratch your head because it doesn’t come with instructions. Instead of an explanation of what’s happening, what you get is new language for our state constitution that omits “register of probate.” That’s the change. Removing “register of probate” from the language allows a pointless election to no longer be held.
We can empathize with anyone wanting that C note, what with a gallon of heating oil costing a fiver this day, but two-thirds of the rest of us need to say “yes” to Question 1 to muzzle this boondoggle for good.
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Since announcing my candidacy, I have traveled to every city and town in the 1st District, and worked hard to earn the trust of thousands of voters with whom I’ve had the pleasure of meeting. We all have unique stories, but the challenges we face have one common denominator — they are the result of policies that Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi proposed, and Rep. Chris Pappas supported 100% of the time.
Pappas portrays himself as a “bipartisan problem solver,” but the truth is he has been a partisan problem creator. Runaway inflation, sky-high energy costs, and the fentanyl crisis plaguing our state are grave consequences of the policies he rubber stamped.
When Pappas has been tasked with voting for you, your family, lower taxes, and less federal spending, he chose Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and bigger government every single time.
When Pappas took office in 2018, inflation was 2.4% and gasoline was under $2 a gallon. Today, inflation is 8.2% and the Democrats are shamelessly tapping into our emergency oil supply to keep gasoline under $4 a gallon. In the last two years alone, Pappas has voted for $5.5 trillion in new spending, hiking the cost of everything from gas to groceries and robbing $600 every month from families like yours and mine.
Due to Pappas’ support of big government, our business community is also suffering. Profit margins are shrinking each week for small businesses that employ thousands of Granite Staters and serve as the backbone of our economy because of Pappas’ votes that raised inflation rates, utility bills, and the price of heating oil.
I have spoken to countless small business owners who have shared with me that they cannot survive another two years of Pappas and the Democrats’ big government policies. Having grown up in a small business family myself, this fight is personal to me.
New Hampshire is one of the best states to grow up in, as I know firsthand, because we have safe communities. Right now, there is a growing threat to our public safety, as Chris Pappas and Joe Biden leave the southern border wide open, leading to rising crime and thousands of pounds of fentanyl trafficked into our state, killing our fellow Granite Staters at record rates. Sadly, Pappas has done nothing to push back against his party’s leadership to defend our borders and stand up for our law enforcement community.
Our country is clearly heading in the wrong direction under the leadership of Joe Biden and Chris Pappas, but the good news is this — we have a chance to change it on Nov. 8.
As your congresswoman, I will fight to balance the federal government’s budget and bring our fiscally conservative values to Washington to end runaway inflation. I will support legislation to unleash our domestic energy production to increase our supply so that we finally see prices at the pump return to $2 a gallon or less, instead of $4 or more, and make home heating oil affordable again.
I will be the champion that our small businesses need to cut red tape, roll back burdensome regulations, and lower taxes for all, which is why I am endorsed by the National Federation of Independent Business, our country’s leading voice for small business.
And I will always stand with local law enforcement and vote to secure our southern border, stop fentanyl from plaguing our communities, and protect qualified immunity for police officers. I am honored to be endorsed by the New Hampshire Police Association, the Manchester Police Patrolmen and Supervisors, and our local sheriffs. I will always stand with them to ensure the crime wave in Democrat-run states like New York and California does not make its way to New Hampshire.
It is my goal to bring a new, fresh perspective to Congress on behalf of our beloved “Live Free or Die” state. Together, we can change the direction of our country. It starts by voting for change on Nov. 8, and I hope that you will. It will be the honor of my life to be your voice in Congress!
Karoline Leavitt is the Republican candidate for Congress in the 1st District. She lives in Hampton.
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Sen. Jeb Bradley
Inflation has been biting into every American’s paycheck for a year and a half. Gas prices skyrocketed over the summer, went down slightly, and are now going back up again. Heating your home this winter will be more expensive thanks to the Biden Administration’s anti-energy policies. Interest rates are spiking to 20-year highs, making it more expensive to buy a home. Economic uncertainty has hit the stock market, destroying $9 trillion in American investments, including retirement accounts.
Fortunately, New Hampshire is better prepared to weather the coming economic storm thanks to responsible Republican leadership at the State House.
Thanks to Republican-led Legislatures and Governor Chris Sununu, New Hampshire’s economy is strong and growing. While Democrats have constantly pushed for more and higher taxes, Republicans have fought to make our business climate more competitive. This has led to job growth, low unemployment, and record state revenues.
Every time we lowered taxes, Democrats said that we would bankrupt state government. When we first began to lower business tax rates in 2015, then among the highest in the country, then-Governor Maggie Hassan warned that we would “blow a hole in the budget.” In fact, business tax revenues started climbing as soon as we lowered rates. Since we began to lower business tax rates, business tax revenues have generated more than $750 million over projections, even after weathering the unprecedented economic challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lowering taxes on all Granite Staters has unleashed our state’s economy. In October alone, state revenues exceeded projections by $42.7 million dollars. Overall, we have generated a revenue surplus of more than $560 million with eight months left in this budget cycle.
This surplus has allowed us to return money back to taxpayers. By increasing the local share of Rooms and Meals Tax revenue, cutting the Statewide Property Tax by $100 million, and increasing local grants for roads and bridges, we have been able to send back more than $500 million to lower property taxes. We also approved a $42 million Emergency Fuel and Electric Assistance Program to help struggling New Hampshire families through the cold winter months.
We used the surplus to upgrade our state’s mental health and substance misuse systems, reform our juvenile justice system, eliminate the developmental disabilities waitlist, and create the affordable housing fund. All while lowering taxes, not raising them. If Democrats had had their way, New Hampshire would now be facing higher tax rates, a weaker economy, and less money to address these priorities.
Because of the responsible budgeting choices Republicans have made over the past several years, we’ve been able to grow our economy and build up New Hampshire’s unemployment trust fund to over $250 million, triggering a 30% reduction in the payroll tax businesses pay to fund unemployment benefits. Reducing that tax burden will further strengthen our economy.
Thanks to conservative Republican budgets, we are going into the next budget cycle with a surplus. This will allow us to fund our state’s top priorities, focus funding on the Granite State’s most vulnerable populations, and continue to protect New Hampshire taxpayers from a sales or income tax. We have built a buffer against the economic turmoil coming from Washington.
Two years ago, we asked New Hampshire voters to trust Republicans to guide our state out of the pandemic. We provided sound fiscal leadership and delivered results. Today, we ask those voters to again entrust New Hampshire Republicans to guide our state through the challenging economic winter ahead.
Sen. Chuck Morse (R-Salem) represents Senate District 22 and serves as Senate President. Sen. Jeb Bradley (R-Wolfeboro) represents Senate District 3 and serves a Senate Majority Leader.
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Singer Aaron Carter arrives at the taping of the 2006 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles in 2006.
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Aaron Carter’s death at age 34 has sparked an outpouring of emotion from fans and celebrities who remembered the pop singer as a boy who shot to fame in the late ‘90s and a troubled adult who battled addiction under the uncomfortable spotlight that child stardom often brings.
Carter — who was known for a number of late-’90s and early-2000s pop hits and as the brother of Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter — died on Saturday, according to a statement from Roger Paul, one of his representatives.
Paul did not list a cause of death, and a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office said detectives were investigating a report of a “suspicious death” at Carter’s home in Lancaster, California.
Nick Carter said on Sunday that he would miss his brother “more than anyone will ever know,” sharing his statement on Instagram alongside photos of the pair throughout the years.”My heart has been broken today,” his statement said. “Even though my brother and I have had a complicated relationship, my love for him has never ever faded.”
Aaron Carter often spoke openly about his addiction and mental health issues, and said earlier this year that he was five years sober.
“I have always held on to the hope that he would somehow, someday want to walk a healthy path and eventually find the help that he so desperately needed,” his brother’s Instagram post said. “Sometimes we want to blame someone or something for a loss, but the truth is that addiction and mental illness is the real villain here.”
Actress Hilary Duff — a former child star who dated Carter when the pair were teenagers — also lamented Aaron Carter’s public problems.
“I’m deeply sorry that life was so hard for you and that you had to struggle in-front of the whole world,” Duff wrote in an Instagram post. “Boy did my teenage self love you deeply,” she added. “We are shocked and saddened about the sudden passing of Aaron Carter. Sending prayers to the Carter family,” boy band New Kids on the Block wrote, while ‘90s boy band ‘N Sync — which featured on a charity single with Carter in 1998 — also paid tribute to the star.
Carter was introduced to fame early in life: In 1997, while still only 9, he opened a tour for the Backstreet Boys. That same year, he released his first solo album in Europe just days before turning 10. He then went on to make several television appearances, including in an episode on the first season of “Lizzie McGuire,” in which Duff had the leading role.
“Fame at a young age is often more a curse than a blessing and Surviving it is not easy,” tweeted songwriter Diane Warren.
In a 2013 interview with “The Morning Show” on Canadian network Global News, Carter reflected on the darker side of child stardom, telling show hosts he “absolutely” faced challenges throughout his childhood and teenage years as a result of his celebrity — including his leaving school in second grade and being home-schooled so he could go on a world tour.
“I faced a lot of struggles,” he said. “I started off as a kid.”
He added that there were “a lot of times” when drugs were presented to him and that he got in “a lot of trouble” for using them.
In 2017, Carter revealed he was bisexual, telling fans: “This doesn’t bring me shame, just a weight and burden I have held onto for a long time that I would like lifted off me.” Two years later, he appeared in an episode of “The Doctors,” telling medical experts on the talk show that he had spent many years of his life “huffing,” or inhaling substances. Carter said he was introduced to it at the age of 16 by his sister Leslie, who herself died in 2012 of a drug overdose at the age of 25.
“I was huffing because I’m a drug addict,” he said, before going on to describe his time in rehab, which was then followed by a relapse. “I can say I’ve been through hell and back,” he said, his eyes filling with tears. “I’m back. And I’m here to stay.”
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An example of a 'shelter pod' currently offered as part of a pod program in Burlington, Vermont.
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Homeless men have their goods stored just outside Veterans Memorial Park as a group cleans up and prepares for the Veterans Day Parade in Manchester this Friday.
A group of homeless adults sits behind three shopping carts at Victory Park in Manchester last month.
A Manchester landlord is proposing a pilot program where Queen City property owners chip in thousands to sponsor pods to house homeless individuals -- as long as they are away from downtown businesses and residential properties.
The program, based on a similar idea launched this fall in Burlington, Vermont, involves a commitment of $4,000 per pod, which can provide shelter to 1-2 people.
Norri Oberlander, owner of North End Properties in Manchester, sent an email to city landlords Friday pitching her idea, and said by day’s end she had already received 10 preliminary commitments from Manchester landlords and business owners.
“I’m confident I can get 10 more commitments, because I believe in this city,” said Oberlander. “Let this be a lesson to all, that landlords care and that landlords and business owners are stepping up to the plate, which I am so very grateful for. I can’t wait to shout these sponsor names from the rooftops, because they believe in making a change.”
The pods used in the Burlington, Vermont, program are very basic. Heavily insulated, with electricity and heat, each contains a bed, shelving, fire extinguishers, smoke detectors and emergency exits, according to information provided by the city of Burlington.
In her email to city landlords, Oberlander says she supports such a program, if the pods are located “on city property away from any neighborhoods and away from downtown.”
She also writes the program would need to include an application process approved by the city solicitor to ensure it provides pods to “homeless people who have family ties to NH only.”
“If the homeless person does not have ties to NH, we should allocate funds for a bus ticket back to their state of origin,” Oberlander writes.
She also advocates against using any federal funding for the program, only private funds, so the city can require an application process and “not be forced to accept everyone, which would attract more homeless people to our city.”
“This initiative is very preliminary at this point, but we are working hard to brainstorm ideas and research other cities who have implemented this pod program idea,” Oberlander said.
Alderman Pat Long, who represents Ward 3 and the downtown area, said the proposal “is something I’d be willing to work with the landlords on.”
“I think this initiative would have a positive effect on first our unsheltered and second on the city as a whole,” said Long in an email. “I’m willing to work with anybody on any idea in finding solutions on homelessness. It’s good to see the community come together on this potential public/private collaborative effort.”
At large Alderman Joe Kelly Levasseur said he understands the frustration downtown businesses have been going over the past eight years regarding the homelessness crisis, but setting up a pod camp “anywhere but downtown isn’t going to solve the homeless crisis.”
“It’s only going to hide it in some off-beat location in some other part of Manchester where there will be an increase in crime and anger for those locals,” said Levasseur. “However, if the mayor and aldermen are willing to locate it in Stark Park or Livingston Park then I probably would support it.”
Oberlander said possible locations for the pods are being “researched.”
“We are undecided at this time whether we will request city property, or private property, or maybe even state property, but we understand the property needs to be away from businesses and residential neighborhoods and again not be a magnet for the Northeast,” Oberlander said in an email.
The proposal comes as city aldermen are facing heat from homelessness individuals and their advocates over a vote to ban shopping carts, tarps and temporary shelters and structures in the city’s public parks.
The amendments modify an ordinance that already prohibits camping and fires in public parks.
The new language prohibits setting up any tents, tarps, shacks, market umbrellas, beach umbrellas or other temporary shelter or structure at any hour of the day or night for the purpose of camping without the approval of the public works director or a designee.
The amended language also prohibits anyone from bringing in, using or possessing any shopping cart, or more than one bicycle at a time in any city park.
Brandon LeMay, a candidate for state representative, said he thinks the proposal is a “great idea with great intent.”
“I'd like to see a city- or state-sanctioned program, but I certainly wouldn't mind private individuals doing a program like this, too,” said LeMay, who is New Hampshire Housing Justice organizer for the nonprofit organization Rights and Democracy. "I think this could be a great temporary solution to a major problem the city and state are facing, beds at the shelter are full on cold nights, and then folks have nowhere to go during the day. My main concern would be the city not allowing this project through the planning and zoning process.”
LeMay said the pods could help those who are disabled and need a caregiver. Currently, homeless individuals aren't allowed to have a caregiver in the Manchester shelter.
“I think that shelters are inhumane and not a good way to address homelessness,” said LeMay. “While I'd prefer to see the homeless moved from the shelter or the streets into more permanent or transitional housing, I think this could be a great stopgap measure until we can get the housing supply to where it needs to be. These pods are the first actual solution I've seen to address growing numbers of homelessness in New Hampshire.”
"This is a win-win solution for all involved,” said Oberlander. “Homeless people are human beings who need housing and mental health support and we as landlords need to have clean and safe streets to conduct business. This issue is beyond City Hall alone, it’s time for all parties to come together for a solution.”
There’s no timetable to discuss the proposal with the city, or when such a pilot program could start.
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Last month, Theodore Luckey’s lawyer entered a notice of Luckey’s intent to plead guilty on two counts of first-degree murder.
Luckey’s lawyer, Robin D. Melone, said in an email she could not comment other than confirm Monday’s hearings.
The first-degree murder charges state Luckey purposely caused the death of Nathan Cashman, 28, of Manchester by inflicting “multiple chop wounds” to him with a machete in the lobby of Country Inn & Suites on South River Road and purposely caused the death of David Hanford, 60, of Seaside Heights, New Jersey, by strangling him in a room.
In court documents, Judge William Delker said the “defense indicates there may be an issue relating to (Luckey’s) competency to stand trial.” Lawyers told a judge they had difficulty obtaining records for out-of-state treatment providers.
He was released with “public health emergency credits” as part of New Jersey’s effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in the prison system.
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Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Val Demings at a “Souls to the Polls” event on Nov. 6, 2022 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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Herschel Walker and American diplomat Nikki Haley during his Unite Georgia Bus Tour rally at Pirate Printing in Hiram, Ga., on Nov. 6, 2022.
By Annie Linskey, Cara McGoogan and Colby Itkowitz The Washington Post
As Republican candidates make their final appeal in key states, they're tapping some of the most polarizing figures in their party and turning to messages centered on cultural division and at times pushing racial discord.
The events included dueling campaign rallies Sunday night in Florida featuring former president Donald Trump and the state's governor, Ron DeSantis. And some featured harsh rhetoric, including former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley suggesting during a Georgia campaign stop on Sunday that Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-Ga.), who is an American citizen, should be deported.
At the same time, many Democrats are scrambling to highlight more moderate themes, overlooking the far left of their party and bringing in surrogates who appeal to middle-of-the-road voters, including former president Bill Clinton, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.)
On Sunday in Pennsylvania - one of the most pivotal Senate contests in the country - Democrats tacked so hard to the center that they held an event with a former Republican congressman.
Key races in Tuesday's election remain exceedingly tight, with operatives on both sides hedging their predictions. The messages and messengers that campaigns highlight in the final days typically reveal where strategists think they can squeeze out additional votes.
The approaches reflect divergent strategies in how candidates from both parties see their paths to victory. For the most part, Republicans want their base out. Democrats are trying to present themselves as moderates who will take down the temperature.
During these appearances, Democrats are more forcefully taking on issues such as crime and the economy, acknowledging voters' concerns and emphasizing the ways that the party's leaders are addressing them.
Clinton, making an appearance in Brooklyn on Saturday for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), told a crowd that inflation is "unsettling" and acknowledged "some high-profile crimes."
The former president sought to paint Republicans as extremists. He said that Republican gubernatorial nominee Lee Zeldin has "on issue after issue, he took the most extreme stance." Clinton added: "And if you think New York should be the most extreme state in the country, have at it."
During a rally for Hochul at Sarah Lawrence College on Sunday night, President Biden said the country is at "an inflection point." He said the election is about a choice between two "fundamentally different" visions for the country.
He bragged about creating millions of new jobs, a low unemployment rate and investing billions in infrastructure. He credited Hochul with repairing roads, expanding access to high-speed internet and improving water systems. "She's helping New York lead - lead the way in making things in America," Biden said.
On Sunday evening, Clinton was also slated to appear at an event for Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.).
Haley made inflammatory comments on immigration during a campaign stop Sunday supporting Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker, saying that Warnock should be kicked out of the country.
"The only person we need to make sure we deport is Warnock," Haley said, prompting loud cheers and applause from the crowd. Moments earlier, she talked about being the daughter of Indian immigrants and said her parents are "offended by what's happening on that border."
"Legal immigrants are more patriotic than the leftists these days," she said to a crowd of hundreds of Walker supporters. "They love America and they want the laws followed in America."
Sen. Josh Hawley (R) of Missouri, who famously put a fist in the air to signal support for the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, also fired up crowds in Ohio and Arizona in recent days with messages aimed squarely at the pro-Donald Trump base of the party.
Speaking Saturday evening at a hotel in Columbus, Hawley said: "They say our United States is founded on slavery and corruption. Here's what we say: There's nothing wrong with the United States of America. There's something wrong with them. We don't need to change the country. We need to change the leadership of the country."
Some of the divisive GOP rhetoric is worrying Democrats and civil rights leaders who are increasingly anxious about tensions surrounding Tuesday's elections. Critics say they are especially concerned given a rise in overt political violence, from the Jan. 6 attack to the violent assault on Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
"They are blatantly - in many areas blatantly - appealing to people's racial bias to get them to vote on 'us against them,' " the Rev. Al Sharpton said in an interview with The Washington Post. Sharpton said he had just spoken with Biden, who he said recorded a message raising concerns about racism and antisemitism for his radio show.
"It used to be subtle," Sharpton said of stoking racial division. "They wouldn't be explicit. It was implicit. Now they've gone where caution is thrown to the wind. It is explicit."
On Sunday, Andrew Torba, CEO of the right-wing social networking site Gab, urged voters to support the Republican gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano, who has espoused Christian nationalist views, and highlighted the Jewish faith of his opponent, Josh Shapiro, in antisemitic terms.
"When a Jew embraces their faith on the campaign trail it is 'stunning and brave,' " Torba wrote. "When a Christian does it, it's 'dangerous and extreme.' "
And groups affiliated with former Trump adviser Stephen Miller have inundated voters with ads and fliers in recent days arguing that the Democratic Party is "anti-White" for efforts aimed at assisting Black Americans. Other messages have been directed at Asian American and Latino voters, arguing that they are being shortchanged by Democrats.
"We're in that last 72-hour window, and that last 72 hours is all about base activation," said Kevin Madden, a former adviser to Mitt Romney during Romney's 2012 GOP presidential campaign. "It's all the red-meat stuff. There's a class of political civilizations that's going to take place on Election Day."
Democrats, by contrast, are primarily emphasizing centrist messages in the final days of the campaign.
"Given the states we're talking about - New Hampshire, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada - it's smart for campaigns to lean on surrogates with the broadest appeal," said Lis Smith, a Democratic strategist. "They understand that to win this election, they need to turn out the base, yes, but they also need to talk to voters who are in the middle and on the fence."
Smith added that former president Barack Obama, who did a large campaign tour in recent days, along with figures such as Klobuchar and Buttigieg are helpful to Democrats because "they're not going to alienate the swing voters that these candidates need to get over the finish line."
Klobuchar, who raised her profile among Democratic voters with her 2020 presidential bid, has made campaign stops in 15 states, including marquee races in Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania. Her message has focused on Democratic lowering of prescription drug prices and protecting Social Security and Medicare.
Buttigieg held 14 events over the weekend across Michigan, New Hampshire and Nevada. He talked about the economy, labeling this year's midterms a "cost-of-living election."
Democrats have even looked across the aisle for help: Former congressman Jim Greenwood, a Republican, appeared at a rally for Shapiro and Senate hopeful Jon Fetterman in Pennsylvania.
High-profile liberals in the party such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) haven't made appearances in the major races. An Ocasio-Cortez spokesman noted that she appeared at a youth rally in California last month and has been outspoken in her support for Hochul.
Over the past few days, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has been a surrogate in search of a campaign, holding rallies in key states but in most cases not appearing with the candidates on the ballot.
Sanders appeared at a rally in Madison, Wis., on Friday evening hours after Democratic Senate candidate Mandela Barnes, who is seeking to unseat Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), held a campaign stop in the liberal city. Sanders urged a crowd of about 1,000 to vote for Barnes, but did not mention Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat who is also in a tight race. A Sanders aide said that because the events were funded by an outside group, candidates could not appear under campaign finance laws.
At least one candidate is taking a go-it-alone approach.
Asked who in the Democratic Party he would want to stump for him in his Senate bid, Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio said he wasn't campaigning with anyone. Musician Dave Matthews and former Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar had been his go-to surrogates, he said.
"I want to be the face of this; I want to stand on my own two feet," Ryan said. "I've had the strength to take on my own party. I've had the strength to agree with Republicans when needed."
In Gahanna, Ohio, on Sunday, Ryan pointed to a group of seven building trade workers who have been following his campaign bus on Harley-Davidson motorcycles and said, "I just don't think Ohio is a place that they follow somebody's endorsement. We're a very independent state, which is why they want an independent senator."
Linskey and McGoogan reported from Ohio. Itkowitz reported from Pennsylvania. Ruby Cramer in New York, Sabrina Rodriguez in Hiram, Ga., and Isaac Arnsdorf in Sioux City, Iowa, contributed to this report.
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Teri Clark immediately recognized her daughter's phone number when it popped up on her 911 dispatch screen last month.
Clark, a veteran emergency dispatcher in New Orleans, long ago taught her daughter, now 16, that she couldn't call 911 to talk to mom. Before picking up, she peeked at her cellphone to see whether she'd missed a call from her. She hadn't.
And so Clark answered her daughter's 911 call the same way she had answered thousands of others over more than two decades.
"New Orleans 911, what's the location of the emergency?"
It would be unlike any other crisis Clark had dealt with in her 24-year career - her teenage daughter begging to be rescued from an armed robber as she cowered in a walk-in freezer with her McDonald's co-workers.
Tenia Hill, a junior in high school, attended classes at Eleanor McMain Secondary School on Oct. 17, a Monday. Then, she put on her uniform and at 5 p.m. went to the McDonald's where she worked part-time as a cashier.
"I was seeing her number pop up, and in my mind, I'm like, 'What's she calling for?' "
"Mama, can you please send a police officer right now to McDonald's?" Tenia asked, according to an audio recording obtained by The Washington Post.
"Where at?" Clark asked her.
"At my job, Mama!"
Clark knew where her daughter was. Tenia had started working there a week earlier - her first "real" job, not counting her stints as a counselor at summer camp. It had been, at least in part, Clark's idea. Tenia wanted to go to driving school. Her mother agreed but, wanting to teach her daughter how to earn and save money to achieve a personal goal, told her to work for it.
"I was trying to show her a little responsibility," Clark said.
The communication district's computer system also informed Clark of where her daughter was calling from. Still, protocol required her to coax the caller into confirming their location. Clark had done it with thousands of others struck by panic, and she did the same with her daughter.
That doesn't mean she felt the same way.
"I processed the call like I normally do with any other citizen that's calling," Clark said, "but I knew it was my child. I was trying to remain calm."
It was an unexpected blessing for Tenia. Thinking her mother had already gotten off work, Tenia said she didn't think she'd get her when she called 911 but immediately recognized her voice. "I felt relieved, and I felt calm because of the comfort of my mama's voice," she said.
During the call, Tenia told her mother that a woman entered the McDonald's and forced the roughly half-dozen employees into the restaurant's walk-in freezer. Clark said she would later learn that the robber initially ordered Tenia and her co-workers to get on the ground. Looking at each other, they initially thought she was pranking them. Then she pulled a gun and said something like, "You think I'm playing?" before herding them to the back, Tenia said.
"When my child told me that they was locked up in the freezer, I guess the mama part of me panicked, but the operator in me knew, 'Hell, I've got to get help to my child,' " Clark said.
"I had tears coming down my face, but I still had to do the job," she added.
On the night of Oct. 17, Clark found herself doing double duty - trying to calm her daughter while keeping her own terror in check.
After Clark dispatched police and hung up, she went to her shift manager. She told her that the caller who'd just reported the robbery was her daughter and that she needed to leave. Clark rushed to the McDonald's, where police were investigating. Officers recognized Clark, told her that her daughter was okay and let her know that Tenia would come out as soon as detectives were done interviewing her.
"But I could see my child inside - hysterical, crying hard," Clark said.
Twenty to 30 minutes later, police cut her loose. Tenia came out, and Clark held her daughter. That night, the high school student struggled to sleep and, when she nodded off, nightmares tormented her, Clark said. Tenia said she's scared to go back to work, and Clark said she worried about letting her do so. She hasn't been back since the robbery and doesn't like going places generally.
"They took that innocence away from her," Clark said.
The New Orleans Police Department did not respond to an email asking for updates on the case, but Clark said they haven't notified her of any arrests.
Most importantly, she said, mother and daughter have taken solace in each other. They've wept together, held each other. Tenia said they're closer now, that's she's found sanctuary in the safety of the person she trusts the most.
"We really just have had each other's backs throughout the whole situation," Tenia said.
Her mom said much the same. They're struggling, but they're struggling together.
"When she cries, I cry," she said, adding, "I'm not doing good, but we're surviving."
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The former president, in a burst of campaigning for Republican candidates while he readies his own third bid for the White House, is honing a stump speech based around juxtaposing current conditions with those during his presidency - a contrast he heightens by misrepresenting and exaggerating on both ends. His speech Thursday at a rally in Sioux Falls, Iowa, contained at least 58 false or misleading statements, and he added at least another 24 distinct falsehoods at a Saturday speech in Latrobe, Pa., according to a Washington Post analysis.
Many of the inaccuracies were repeat offenses for Trump and consistent with his exhaustively documented record of dispensing with the truth. But lately his speeches have also become a clearinghouse for the vast array of rumors, memes and myths that spread in right-wing media and fill up many other Republicans' campaign speeches and ads.
For his part, Trump indicated he's fully aware of how many of his statements haven't stood up to fact-checking. "If I say anything that's slightly wrong, they'll challenge what I say," he said of the press at the Iowa rally.
The Post provided Trump's team with a full list of the inaccurate statements and requested any additional substantiation. After the requested amount of time to review, spokesman Taylor Budowich did not dispute any specific items in the analysis.
"The Left is failing in every way imaginable, so The Washington Post is clearly and desperately trying to run interference with some sham fact check," he said in a statement. "It's embarrassing, but unsurprising."
At Trump's signature rallies this summer and fall, the barrage of misinformation begins before the former president takes the stage. Attendees filing in to take their seats have been routinely met with a prepackaged video quoting Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and others falsely suggesting that the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection was the fault of the FBI or House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), rather than a riot of Trump supporters encouraged by the former president.
Trump's speeches have lately returned to his roots with a heavy emphasis on immigration and the border, syncing up with the focus of many Republican ads this cycle.
"It was just revealed that this September set yet another all-time record high in illegal border crossings, with a quarter of a million illegal alien migrants trespassing," Trump said in Iowa. In fact, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported apprehending 227,000 migrants in September, but it wasn't a record: The tallies in May and April were higher. Trump predicted illegal crossings would rise to 10 million, which would more than quadruple the 2.4 million reported in the last fiscal year.
The government's figures are for people who were caught, whereas Trump's speech made it sound like they were succeeding in entering the country. "Biden and the radical Democrats do nothing at all to stop the death and devastation caused by this invasion into our country," Trump said.
Stories about "an innocent 41-year-old father" shot "in the head at point blank range" and "large packs of sadistic criminals and thieves . . . allowed to go into stores and openly rob them, beat up their workers, kill their customers, and leave with armloads of goods but with no retribution" could not be found.
Trump then branched out into street crime more generally, conjuring up an out-of-control, dangerous world. "You can't walk down a sidewalk in Chicago," Trump said in Iowa. "Get hit over the head with a baseball bat from behind." Chicago police have said shootings and killings are lower in 2022 than the preceding two years.
Crime did rise nationally during 2020, Trump's last year in office, but more recent national data was not available. Even with recent increases, violent crime remains a third or more lower than the high rates of the early 1990s, according to FBI statistics. Perceptions of crime, however, have risen, driven by a jump among Republicans.
Trump played into those fears, falsely suggesting that crime is at record levels. "Nobody's ever seen anything like what's happening now," he said. In Pennsylvania on Saturday, he specified that crime in that state had surged to record levels, a claim that is not supported by FBI data.
In addition to Chicago, Trump also singled out New York, by way of attacking the state's attorney general, who has accused his company of financial fraud. Trump calls the attorney general, Letitia James, "racist" and "Peekaboo" without explanation and faults her for presiding over "murders, robberies, rape and drugs at levels never seen." The most recent statewide data, from 2021, show rapes and robberies were up in New York but not at record highs.
In addition to blaming crime on immigrants, Trump faulted lack of support for police. "If a policeman speaks a little bit loudly, he loses his family, he loses his house, he loses his pension," Trump said. He also described people whose "lives would be destroyed for the mere mention of the words law enforcement." No evidence of this happening could be found.
Turning to inflation and the economy - to round out Republicans' third common campaign theme - Trump exaggerated price increases for bacon, ham, Thanksgiving turkeys and airfare. He falsely warned of an imminent diesel shortage, which relies on a misrepresentation of industry stockpiles.
"We are a nation whose economy is collapsing into a cesspool of ruin," Trump said in both speeches.
In Trump's telling, all the reversals of fortune since he left office trace to his biggest lie of all. "The election was rigged and stolen and now our country is being destroyed," he said. In both speeches, Trump falsely claimed the Pennsylvania Supreme Court had ruled that the 2020 presidential election was "rigged." In fact, in a case brought by the Republican National Committee, the court said undated mail-in ballots should not be counted, even if they arrive before Election Day. Dozens of other Republican legal challenges to the results of the 2020 election were thrown out by the courts, often by judges appointed by Trump.
Trump broadened his false claim to include other states, perhaps referring to post-election audits, which failed to prove the results were fraudulent, or a Wisconsin court decision eliminating ballot drop boxes. "Wisconsin, so many states are now finding it," he said in Iowa. "This thing was rigged."
Trump also blamed his defeat on "the censorship of the Biden family corruption story," a reference to a social media network's suppression of a New York Post story before the election about files allegedly from Hunter Biden's laptop. In Trump's version of events, "The FBI went to Facebook and they said, 'Oh, this is Russian disinfo, don't do anything.' "
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a recent podcast interview that the FBI warned Facebook officials about Russian propaganda in general but not the Biden story specifically. Still, the suggestion that the government - under the Trump administration - forced companies to censor the story has become a widespread right-wing talking point and a likely target for congressional investigators if Republicans win the House.
Trump further claimed that the suppression of the laptop story cost him "17 points" in the election. It's not clear where he derived this estimate.
In Pennsylvania, Trump falsely suggested that right-wing activists Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips were being jailed for finding fraud in the 2020 election. Their allegations about ballot-stuffing, portrayed in the movie "2,000 Mules," have been widely discredited, and they were in fact jailed for contempt of court after refusing to identify an alleged informant. Trump also repeated the falsehood that Jan. 6 defendants have been treated differently than other people charged with crimes and that no one was prosecuted for the unrest in the summer of 2020. There have been more than 300 federal prosecutions related to the 2020 protests.
Trump's ongoing lies about the 2020 election have raised concerns among some Republican operatives that he could be discouraging his supporters from voting, as many blame him for doing in the Georgia Senate runoffs won by Democrats in 2021. In the Iowa and Pennsylvania speeches, Trump repeated his call for his supporters to vote in person on Election Day, falsely suggesting it was more secure. The instruction could complicate Republican get-out-the-vote efforts and lead some voters to miss the chance to cast their ballot if they get stuck in line or can't make it to the polls Tuesday.
Trump did not address the break-in at Pelosi's house in which a man who posted right-wing conspiracy theories online has been charged with attacking her husband. Nor did he alter his standard speech, which vows, "We're going to end crazy Nancy Pelosi's political career." In an earlier radio interview, Trump gave credence to a false conspiracy theory that the attack wasn't really a break-in.
Trump's speeches concluded with a summation of his case that everything was better when he was president and a promise to return to that former glory. "We are not going to allow this horror to continue," Trump said at both rallies. "Two years ago, we were a great nation, and we will soon be a great nation again."
"Everything was good when he was in," Marvin Berger of Sheldon, Iowa, said before Thursday's speech. "Now everything's turned to s---."
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U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., said she learned firsthand the power of the get-out-the-vote effort when she defeated Sen. Kelly Ayotte, D-N.H., by only 1,017 votes in 2016.
Republican Senate nominee Don Bolduc of Stratham said he's on the verge of perhaps beating Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., due to the following he's built over two years traveling to every town and city in the state. Here he engaged in pep talk in Loudon with State Rep. Dawn Johnson, R-Laconia.
DURHAM — After a record onslaught of negative, often toxic TV advertising, New Hampshire voters will shut out the noise and get the last word on Tuesday.
Political observers agree the number of undecided voters who will actually show up at the polls had shrunk to a small number by week’s end.
“Sure they exist, but most who are undecided at this point either aren’t going to vote or may not feel comfortable telling us they’ve already made up their minds,” said Andy Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center.
“We’ve seen this movie before. These races got so nationalized that most voters are falling back in line with the political party with which they are more comfortable,” Smith said. “So now, the race will be won or lost depending on who actually shows up.”
The fortunes of U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan and U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas, both D-N.H., and Republican nominees Don Bolduc and Karoline Leavitt rest not on global designs hatched in the Beltway, but on the sweat of those fighting the final ground war like Stephen Rasche of Canterbury and Pete Jones of Concord.
Rasche is a retired U.S. Army veteran who became so motivated to support the Democratic cause that he and his wife, Patrice, agreed to star in a TV ad on prescription drugs for U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster, D-N.H.
“Am I worried? Of course I’m worried. We’re Democrats. That’s what we always do before an election,” Rasche quipped during an interview while waiting to see Hassan at a brew pub in Manchester. “Seriously, there’s just too much at stake for us not to do all we can and lay it all out there.”
Jones is a U.S. Navy veteran of the Vietnam War who never worked on a political campaign until he met Bolduc at one of the candidate’s nearly 80 town hall forums.
“I said, ‘It’s great to finally meet you, General.’ and he turns to me, puts his hands on my shoulders and says, ‘Hey, call me, Don,” Jones recalled at a Bolduc forum in Loudon. “This is a decorated war hero with five Bronze Stars and it’s, ‘Call me Don.’ I was hooked and I’ve been to 31 of his town halls ever since.”
Same marching orders
That’s why beyond their stock stump speeches, Hassan and Bolduc delivered similar marching orders to their troops.
“Look, back in 2016, I won this seat by 1,017 votes. That means every door knocked, every call made, every conversation had with other voters, all of that stuff mattered,” Hassan said at a Get Out the Vote rally Friday at the University of New Hampshire with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
“Because people turned out, people knocked on doors, we were able to save the Affordable Care Act so young people could stay on their parents’ insurance until 2026.”
Bolduc said if elected, the grassroots-heavy, low-budget, longshot campaign he has waged from the start is only the beginning.
“When I win this election on Nov. 8, during those weeks until I am sworn in January, I will do a town hall in every county in a centralized location so I can listen and learn from you,” Bolduc vowed. “I believe we need to come together to make a change. and the only way it is going to happen is how I’ve always tried to lead, from the bottom up.”
Neil Levesque, executive director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College, said its poll last week revealed voter enthusiasm among Democrats had fallen 2% in the past month, while intensity among Republicans was up 10%.
“You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to understand the Democratic incumbents — Hassan, Pappas, (Annie) Kuster — have all had the much harder argument to make,” Levesque said.
“They know they’ve got to run — what? 15, close to 20 points — above where President Biden’s favorability is right now in the state.”
The get-out-the-vote effort can be more critical in a midterm, since so many voters show up and vote without any persuasion every four years for a presidential election.
State Rep. Timothy Horrigan, D-Durham, said it takes more work to get college students to vote in these elections, which is why Hassan’s campaign wanted Warren, a darling of the party’s liberal wing, to make the closing argument here.
“I think a lot of young voters on both sides are really dispirited about the state of the country and all the negativity that’s out there,” Horrigan said. “It’s hard for them to be convinced their involvement really can make a difference.”
Smith said that when soaring inflation, including high energy prices, hit New Hampshire’s economy, many voters want to take their frustration and anger out on someone.
“It’s kind of like firing the manager of a baseball team because no one in the lineup is hitting,” Smith said. “Then the election isn’t about what senator or congressman so-and-so has done before, it’s what are you going to do to help me now?”
Michael Dennehy, a political consultant who helped engineer the late GOP Sen. John McCain’s two presidential primary wins in New Hampshire, says changing dynamics will be a major factor Tuesday.
“People may forget what it was like during the Great Recession, the total collapse of the real estate market that led up to the Tea Party revenge midterm in 2010,” Dennehy said.
When the dust settled that November, only a popular Democratic Gov. John Lynch was left standing, with the Legislature going 3-1 Republican.
“I’m not sure it’s going to reach that kind of Republican blowout, but we’re going to see GOP wins across the board, and I didn’t see that even a month ago.”
Democrats claim firewall
Democratic Party Chairman Raymond Buckley has seen midterms wash in and wash out incumbents in swing state New Hampshire, but he believes they’ve built a solid firewall with incumbents who can survive against the odds.
“These midterms are always unpredictable but we’re up to the task,” Buckley said. “We’ve got a senator and two members of the House who have not only accomplished a lot, but they are determined to keep helping Granite Staters who are still struggling.”
Warren learned firsthand the power of the ground game when she unseated a popular Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., in 2012.
“Roger Lau, my field director (and later, Warren’s 2020 presidential campaign manager), said, ‘Just fight him to dead even and we will carry you across the line. We will give you two points by getting out, doing the hard work and making it happen,’” Warren recalled. “We beat that guy by seven and a half points.”
Matt Schlapp, a past lobbyist and current chairman of the American Conservative Union, said Bolduc’s victory would epitomize what he called an “American un-wokening.”
“Something happened, we have woken up, we are going to take this country back, and the general is going to lead the charge,” Schlepp declared.
His wife, Mercedes, was director of strategic communications in the Trump White House.
“You all know what it takes to win elections and understand politics like nobody else in the country,” she told the pro-Bolduc crowd.
Warren said on this point, they agree.
“How you mark your ballot for Senate, Congress and governor, up and down the ballot may determine the direction of this country,” Warren said. “America, once again New Hampshire, we are looking at you.”
Mike Dennehy
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Theodore Luckey told a judge Monday morning he takes full responsibility for killing two men at Bedford hotel in August 2021.
He pleaded guilty to two charges of first-degree murder after prosecutor Adam Woods detailed the events leading of the grisly crime scene. Woods said Luckey had intimate relationships with both of the victims.
According to the charges, Luckey purposely caused the death of Nathan Cashman, 28, of Manchester, by inflicting “multiple chop wounds” to him with a machete in the lobby of Country Inn & Suites on South River Road and purposely caused the death of David Hanford, 60, of Seaside Heights, New Jersey, by strangling him in a room on Aug. 21, 2021.
Several family members of Cashman called him a monster during victim impact statements. Judge William Delker is expected to sentence Luckey this afternoon.
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NH to receive $129,429 in data-breach settlements
New Hampshire will receive $129,429 as part of its share from two multistate settlements with Experian Information Solutions Inc. and T-Mobile USA Inc. regarding a 2015 data breach, authorities said Monday.
The companies have agreed to improve their data security practices and to pay 40 states more than $15 million combined, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office.
The data breach compromised the personal information of more than 15 million people, including 21,058 New Hampshire residents, who submitted credit applications with T-Mobile.
The settlement also requires Experian to offer five years of free credit monitoring services to affected consumers, as well as two free copies of their credit reports annually during that time. This is in addition to the four years of credit monitoring services already offered to affected consumers. The deadline to apply for the prior free monitoring has since passed.
“This settlement includes important due diligence provisions and data security enhancements to protect consumers moving forward,” Attorney General John M. Formella said in a statement. “We encourage affected Granite Staters to enroll in the free credit monitoring services being offered through this settlement.”
The breach involved information associated with consumers who had applied for T-Mobile postpaid services and device financing between September 2013 and September 2015, including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, identification numbers for such things as driver’s license and passport numbers, as well as related information used in T-Mobile’s own credit assessments.
The settlement with T-Mobile doesn’t concern the unrelated, massive data breach announced by T-Mobile in August 2021, which is still under investigation by a collection of states, including New Hampshire.
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Shanthi (center), Ambika (left), and Bozie (right), walk into a paddock at the National Zoo in January 2020. Later that year, Shanthi and Ambika were euthanized due to old age. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Evelyn Hockstein.
By Michael E. Ruane The Washington Post
The ladies traveled 4,000 miles by truck and plane before they pulled up to 3001 Connecticut Ave., in northwest Washington, Sunday night, where the staff of the National Zoo waited to greet them.
The zoo announced their arrival Monday morning, with staff saying earlier that they hoped the animals would transform the zoo's stalled elephant breeding program, and might produce an elephant baby -- or two -- within a few years. The zoo hasn't had an elephant calf in 21 years.
"They're really nice girls," said veteran elephant manager Marie Galloway, who recently traveled to Rotterdam to meet them. "It was terrific, because I got to know a little bit more about them. . . . We want to do everything we can to make their transition as easy as possible."
"They're very personable" and easy going, she said in a telephone interview last week. "They're young, so they are curious and interested in things. They really seem to enjoy interacting with people."
She added that they are closely bonded to each other, and the mother does not like to be separated from her daughter. The younger elephant, however, "would like a little more adventure and get away from mom a little bit," she said.
The object is for Spike to breed with both newcomers. "He's a really nice bull," she said. "I think they're going to like him a lot."
Spike's genes are important because he has not yet fathered any offspring. Zoos say diversifying gene pools by bringing in new animals is critical to the preservation of a species.
"It would be nice if both [females] had a couple of calves on the ground in a couple years," she said. "The best enrichment we can give an elephant is more elephants."
Elephants have a long gestation period -- 20 1/2 to 22 months.
The acquisition "is part of the vision for [the zoo's] Elephant Trails [exhibit] when it was renovated a decade ago, to have a multigenerational herd, and produce babies and have a normal herd of elephants like you would see if you were watching the Smithsonian channel," said Bryan Amaral, senior zoo curator.
"An energetic, dynamic duo," Zoo Director Brandie Smith called them.
"They wanted to give these girls more space, and the opportunity to socialize with some other elephants, that they will hopefully get along with," she said. "We do have the space for them."
Then they will be introduced to the rest of the zoo's elephant facility, Amaral, the curator, said. After that, they will be gradually introduced to the other elephants.
"We want them to be comfortable moving around the facility before they have to be comfortable moving around the facility with some new friends," he said.
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After two recent deaths, National Zoo gets two new Asian elephants | Back Page | unionleader.com
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By Hannah Sampson The Washington Post
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been on the offense against the Walt Disney Company for months, criticizing the entertainment giant for opposing legislation he championed and signing a law to strip the company of its special taxing district.
Before he took aim at the company, DeSantis - who is up for reelection next week - was a groom walking down the aisle in a Disney wedding. He and his wife, Jill Casey Black, a former anchor at Jacksonville news station WJXT who goes by Casey, wed at Walt Disney World on Sept. 26, 2009.
Neither the governor's office nor his campaign responded to questions about the wedding. Disney did not respond to a request for comment.
Insider first reported the wedding location on Friday, based on accounts from three unnamed people; the publication said 150 people attended. The New York Times reported in early October that the couple's marriage license listed the location as Lake Buena Vista, a Central Florida city controlled by Disney. The Washington Post has also obtained the marriage license.
Hamilton said the ceremony, at the wedding chapel of the Victorian-style Grand Floridian Resort, was "very elegant."
"I don't think there was any Mickey presence at all," Hamilton said.
After the ceremony, guests moved to the World Showcase at Epcot overlooking the signature Spaceship Earth ball, where Hamilton said one of the station's meteorologists warned about the perils of the outdoor gathering. It rained, Hamilton said.
Insider reported that Italy Isola at Epcot, described by Disney as a "private island terrace," was the location of the reception.
Though DeSantis hasn't commented on reports about his wedding, he's had plenty of barbs to throw at Disney in recent months. He attacked the company after CEO Bob Chapek came out against a law that bans discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in elementary schools , dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by critics. The politician is widely seen as a potential 2024 presidential candidate.
The fight escalated through April when the governor signed a bill stripping Disney of its special taxing status. The structure allowed the company to develop the Central Florida land into the world's top theme park destination.
Part of the resort's business: "Fairy Tale" weddings that promise a "magical" celebration and "memories to cherish forever."
Tens of thousands of Disney fans have tied the knot at the company's theme parks, hotels or cruise ships over the last 30 years. According to a Washington Post story in 2017, Disney had put on more than 30,000 weddings since September of 1991.
According to the company, the wedding pavilion at the Grand Floridian is "easily our most popular wedding venue." The event minimum cost for the pavilion runs between $12,500 and $35,000 today; the Italy Isola minimum ranges from $10,000 to $17,000.
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Ron DeSantis, who denounced Disney, actually got married there | Back Page | unionleader.com
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Ride-hailing company Lyft on Monday forecast current-quarter revenue slightly below Wall Street estimates, hurt by competition from Uber even while demand for rideshare picks up and prices rise.
Lyft’s shares were down 9% in extended trading. The stock has lost nearly 70% of its value so far this year, underperforming that of Uber, which has declined about 33%.
“Now as we’re entering a recession, the opposite is true ... transportation is durable because we need to get around, but delivery and takeout is less durable,” Lyft President John Zimmer said in an interview.
It forecast adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), a profitability metric keenly watched by investors, between $80 million and $100 million, compared with analysts’ forecast of $84.5 million, according to Refinitiv IBES data.
Operating profit for the third quarter was $66.2 million, beating analysts’ estimate of $62 million.
Lyft’s net loss, however, widened to $422.2 million, or $1.18 per share, from $99.7 million, or 30 cents per share, a year earlier, due to impairment charges related to the closure of Argo AI, the autonomous vehicle startup in which the company had a stake.
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Unitil hosts career fair Thursday to recruit vets
Unitil Corp., a provider of natural gas and electricity, is reaching out to veterans interested in exploring potential job opportunities with the company by hosting its 2nd Annual Veterans Day Career Fair on Nov. 10.
The event is open to the public and will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Unitil’s Seacoast operations facility at 30 Energy Way in Exeter.
“We recognize the value veterans bring to the workplace, but have found that connecting with transitioning service members and veterans seeking employment is oftentimes a challenge,” said Unitil Media Relations Manager Alec O’Meara, in a statement.
Unitil, which held its first career fair targeting veterans last year, is hiring utility line workers, software developers, engineers, gas service workers and meter technicians.
For more information visit https://unitil.com/our-company/careers.
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Originally from Rhode Island, Tominsky started by eating a chicken in 20 minutes. Then he was hit with cramps, so he eventually “drank the chicken” with water in the last 11 days. His timetable slowed to two hours per chicken, which was usually his only meal for the day. He went on to lose 16 pounds over the course of his challenge.
Every so often he would post his progress on Twitter, smile fading and brows furrowing. The pain, “the abuse, the torture” altogether made up part of the experience, he said. If he died from this experience, he told the Times, he “would have been OK with the sacrifice.”
It all culminated Sunday, Nov. 6, at an abandoned pier along the Delaware River with dozens of onlookers chanting “Eat that bird!” as Tominsky devoured his 40th chicken. He faced the crowd as Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Philadelphia” played on. Those cheering him took their picture with him as some asked if he would run for mayor or president. Changing his diet to sushi was next on his mind.
“I’m happy that it’s over,” he said to the Times. “My body is ready to repair.
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‘The Philadelphia Chicken Man’ finishes 40 chickens in 40 days challenge | Human Interest | unionleader.com
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