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Looking back at the week in news

Making an impact on kids halfway around the world At a time when it seems to have become trendy in some warped circles to look down upon the less fortunate and people from other countries and cultures, along comes a heartening story from Merrimack Middle School. Sewing students have been ...

Emily Doe has much to teach us

As America grapples with sexual assault on college campuses, the letter that a 23-year-old victim read to her attacker in court last week should be required reading. "Emily Doe" delivered her victim impact statement, a searing 12-page letter, at Thursday's sentencing of ...

Trump vs. Curiel: facts are still facts

Donald Trump's claim that he couldn't get fair treatment from Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel because the judge's Mexican heritage is in conflict with Trump's comments on the campaign trail is absurd on its face. Trump originally claimed of the judge that "he's a Mexican," which is ...

Freezing tuition is not a strategy

New Hampshire policymakers want to have it both ways when it comes to higher education. Out of one side of their mouths, they say they want a system that lines up with the needs of business and industry in the state. But they also say - through their actions - that they're fine with having ...

Next to Chicago, we live in Eden

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, there were 33 shootings in the city of Chicago this past weekend. That's actually an improvement over the previous weekend - the Memorial Day holiday weekend - when there were 64 shootings, seven of them fatal, The New York Times reported. Yet somehow that ...

Losing the war against bacteria

If an enemy threatened the United States with mass casualties possible, Americans would be willing to spend the money and make the sacrifices necessary to confront it. Well, the country faces such an enemy. Recently came the news that a patient in the United States carried bacteria resistant ...