Poverty in the United States is deeper than in all other wealthy nations. Yet neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump has a specific anti-poverty agenda. There have been notable improvements in three crucial measures of economic well-being: income, poverty and health insurance coverage. On ...
Last week, in Nashua, the mother of 3-year-old Brielle Gage was found guilty of beating her to death. In Manchester, another mother stands accused of killing her 21-month-old daughter, Sadie Willott, who died of blunt impact head injuries. The state's Division for Children, Youth and Families, ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This piece originally ran Sept. 12, 2001. The words coming over the school's loudspeaker were almost unbelievable. One of the two hijacked planes that crashed into the World Trade Center in New York on Tuesday morning was piloted by the father of two Bishop Guertin High ...
As if news on the addiction front here wasn't bad enough The news on the local addiction front continues to be grim. Drug overdoses totaled 199 as of Aug. 31, Nashua Police Chief Andrew Lavoie said last week at a meeting of the Mayor's Opioid Task Force. That compares to 135 overdoses as of ...
Congress returned from its summer break to what may be a brief but contentious pre-election legislative spell. Among the likely arguments: whether Congress should radically change its relationship with the executive branch and hobble the government in the process. For months, a group of ...
Pilots call it “chop” – the turbulence found in the air that can buffet even the largest jumbo jets and toss unsecured passengers around like rag dolls. Such is the environment that Nashua’s Daniel Webster College finds itself in at present. It was ...